Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1919 — SUIT CHANGES ARE FEW [ARTICLE]

SUIT CHANGES ARE FEW

Styles Only Slightly Affect Conservative Type. Last Winter’s Outfit Will Not Be Passe—Fur Trimming Is Not So General. There are many women who wear one coat suit for at least twa seasons and always look well in it. These are usually the women who select a conservative style to begin with and then freshen it up the second season with small fashionable touches. Say what you will about the changeableness of fashion, observes a fashion writer, you will have to grant that within the last few years there have been very few changes in suit styles that would affect the more conservative type of suit. That is, we have worn the same sort ot suit sleeves antTthe~ straight belted or semi-fitted jacket that persisted. To be sure, there have been changes in skirt length and girth, but you have never looked out of style if you persisted hr a conservative medium in these matters. Now radical changes are said to be working in the realm of fashions as an inevitable aftermath of the war’s end. Distended hips are sure to come in. They are always worn almost to the exclusion of any other sort of thing for evening gowns by fashionable women, but it has really been determined by the makers of women’s clothes that these distended hips shall not have a showing in women’s suits. It would take more goods than the women could afford to pay for. Consequently the straight silhouette will persist for day street wear at least during the winter. ' So your last winter’s suit will not look so out of the picture after all. In the matter of fur trimming, although some coats are trimmed lavishly with it, it is by no moans so general, and some&women who have planned the remodeling of suits they have worn last winter or before have planned to have the old fur removed. On some of the new suits with fur trimming it is found only on the collar and along the edge of large hip pockets. It would be possible then to have the fur from the other part of the coat removed and enough that is good made over to use in this way. Then some of the suits show the use of warm angora cloth or other fabrics made to take the place of fur, but by no means Imitations. If the old fur is shabby why not get the tailor to make use of one of these angora fabrics? It would be especially attractive on a suit that is cut along the sports lines.