Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — Capes, Comfortable and Full of Style [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Capes, Comfortable and Full of Style

Gapes in great force stand ready to answer the demand -for spring wraps, having gradually and surely ingratiated themselves into the likings of fashionable women. Nothing demonstrates better the inexhaustible gening of designers than the constantly varying interpretations of the cape which make it, just now, the most interesting of wraps. It is shown in unending variety. Capes are long or short, as you will, but mostly long. They are always full and naturally loose. But in many new models the 5 ’ looseness disappears below the knees being restrained by means of cutting or by confining it in a hem that is rather tight about the figure. Among new capes for spring are long and short capes of taffetp with collars —very ample and cozy looking, .of sweater-weave silks or wool materials, and linings that lend them warmth. Navy silk with beige-colored linings and collars is the favorite combination. : Duvetyn capes, in navy and marine blues. In brown, henna and tomato red. convince one that no other fabric could show these colors to such advantage. One of the simpler Capes in marine blue duvetyn is shown in the accompanying

illustration. It is a practical and graceful garment part Cape and part cloak since it has sleeves. The body of It hangs from a small yoke and it contrives to hang In at the sides where it slopes toward the hem in the approved way. As a change from coats, and because it is more picturesque and becoming, the cape for spring deserves attention. In duvetyh. cinnamon, brown, henna and tomato red they are deliciously soft and rich looking and velours ought to he as good a vehicle, for these colors that make wraps of so much distinction. Capes are lined with crepe-de-ehine to match in color or with checked or cross-bar silks; large checks, in quiet tones, being everywhere present in displays of new spring apparel. The cape, pure and simple. Is to be found, but the cape whicn borrows something of the coat or is posed on a Jacket and is in reality a combining of two wraps into one is of tetter in evidence. Nearly all of these wraps have cozy and ample colters. They are successful ytraps from ' every point of view, comfortable and full of style. ■