Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Those Smart New Cape Coats [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Those Smart New Cape Coats

Capes and capelike wraps for spring have invaded the realm of fashion in great force. This bespeaks much preparation on the part of designers, since the variety of these garments is wonderful, and leads us to believe that a vogue for capes is so well started that its growth is sure. It really began with the magnificent fur mantles and capes and big jctveloplng wraps with which women consoled themselves when quiet dressing for patriotic reasons was the vogue. Furs are not considered an extravagance; they, outlast seasons and wars, and they were never more sumptuous or magnificent than they were this fall —just before the signing of the armistice. Their position was further strengthened by the seal of approval which Paris has set on handsome wraps of black satin, fur-trimmed, and on others that are combinations of fur and silk. All through the fashions of the passing season there has run the idea of

combination garments. The coat-dress is an example. Tn furs this Idea was featured in wraps that were part scarf and part cape or something of both scarf and coat. It has persisted and appears now in wraps and in dresses. In the smart wrap pictured, and in many'others, we have a garment part cape and part coat. The cape pbrtioh falls over the shoulders and back and is long. If it is removable it may be recommended for the tourist who slips into the warm but sometimes erratic climate .of Florida or. of California. It is their capelike lines that make the new wr".ps unusually graceful; an effect that is strengthened in the garment pictured by its curve downward toward the back. Wide silk braid applied in bands appears in three rows on the collar and girdle ends and four on the coat. Smart and unusual, these wraps give distinction to spring styles and the example pictured is only one of a glorious company.