Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1920 — Something Original and Chic [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Something Original and Chic

TIERE are no rules without exceptions, so far as fashions are concerned. At any rate, that iM the conclusion one comes to after reviewing the new styles in suits. Although nearly ail suit coats are finger tip length, there are a few very long coat# and a greater number of short ones. The short coats vary as to shortness and are to be found among the many boxcoat models, some of them reaching only a little way below the waistline. The box coat is chic —youthful and becoming to slender women. The exception to the rule in length—but in the opposite direction from- the box-coat—is-found in a few very long coats that are usually somewhat irregular about the bottom, extending to the knees at the longest point. , The very handsome• suit pictured has a skirt that is rather narrow and a trifle shorter than the average. The unusual coat must fasten along the

shoulder and under the arm as the effect of the embroidery would be spoiled if the pattern were interrupted by a fastening. The designer of this suit not only adopted embroidery as its decoration, but perceived how it could be ‘used in an unusual and very effective way so that the pattern on the coat and that on the skirt are alike, the two halves of one design. The sleeves are gathered Into a band which is embelllshed with a simple design in embroidery and part of the scroll pattern tn the coat and skirt. A heavy ' silk cord and long tassels are features that help to make thia a remarkably rich suit, the cord hanging -in two loops and the tassels from two ends at the side. Ihivetyn in one of the darker shades, with embroidery matching it in color, vindicates Its choice as the loveliest of heavy fabrics.