Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1919 — Top Coats Are Full and Soft [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Top Coats Are Full and Soft

Already coats for winter, both in cloth and fur, have passed and are daily passing in review before tperchants and buyers and reporters who publish the styles. Certainly no winter was ever heralded by more comfortable or more becoming garments. They are fuller than last year’s mod-els-and the same materials that were so successful then are used to make them. Duvetyn, velours and similar cloths appear In lighter weights than last year so that top coats and suits may be full and draped without being clumsy. This ampleness of cloth makes the top coat easy to slip on and off and adds to its warmth, and there Is room under ltfor panniers and other arrangements of drapery for wide hip effects. These are fairly well established in the styles and must be reckoned with. Heavy homespuns are used in some of the handsonfe and practical new models.

Collars are either of fur or of thfc cloth in the coat. They are very cozy looking In either case. The fur collars are wide and fit snugly, coming up about face and chin and very are managed so as to give the same effect of coziness with the face snuggled down Into them; very often they button across at the front and become a small cape when unbuttoned: The coat shown In the picture is a good example of the new styles in substantial and practical top coats. It Is of be£vy cloth and therefore not as full as dressier models. Its narrow belt of the cloth fastens fit one side, and Its very odd “and smart cuffs "are finished with a single large button.

TnuTpoekefs are set in. This coat is long and reaches to within six inches of the bottom of the dress skirt, which is almost instep length. Its collar could hardly be improved upon. For street wear or motoring or as a steamer coat this model may be worn with assurance. And the silk hat trimmed with fluted ribbon that bears it company is of just the same character aa the coat.