The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-03
WINTER WRAPS.
What Fashion De-
mands in the Way
Of Coverings.
LOOSE, SHORT COATS.
Stitched Velvet and Fur
RCvers Are Pop
ular.

In wraps it bids fair to be a diversi-
fed winter What one wears shop
ping will not be suitable for receptions
and calls Theatre nights require a
very different sort of enveloping gar
ment and opera nights call for some
thing quite regal in the way of wraps.
Two coverings one must have unless
leading the life of a hermit. One, of
course, must be a coat, and on it the
most money had best be expended if
it is to be the only one of it's kind.
There are three styles of coat this win
ter. the short, the three-quarter length
and the long coat sweeping nearly, if
not quite, to the heels, writes Mabel
Boyd in the Washington Star For
those who are contemplating the acqui
sition of but one jacket the third gar
ment-the very long coat-presents no
points of interest A very long coat
is conspicuous, it is only for certain oc-
casionS and it cannot be worn every
where and anywhere. 1t is in the ma
ture of a luxury, an attribute of the
pels her own automobile, or has leisure
and opportunity for the vast number
of delightful outdoor occasions which
come to the daughters of the silver
spoon.
And if one is going to have one hand
some coat. it should depend entirely on
ones height and figure whether the
coat be very short or three quarter
length. A woman who is five feet five
or six inches and of a reasonable
plumpness will do we'll to adopt a coat
of the three-quarter length. She may
have it fitted snugly, or she may dar-
ingly adopt the loose back, but in either
case she will find all models longer in
the back than in the front, and If she
will look up some of the old pictures,
she will be struck by the resemblance
her coat bears to some dolman-like af-
fairs which must have graced the slop-
ing shoulders of her great grand
mother.
If, however, the earnest seeker after
coat for the winter of 1899-1900 does
not possess the requisite inches to
carry off successfully a coat which
comes nearly to her knees, she will find
endless and natty models among the
short coats. 1t would be idle to try to
blind ones eyes to the great effort be-
ing made to introduce the seamless
back-or the back which is untitled
save for the curving seam. And this
year there is little doubt that the loose
coat will succeed. We have been some
what Injured to it's appearance by the
long automobile cloaks of last winter,
and now that the short natty coats
appear in this shape they may con-
graduate themselves on a tardily won
success. For youthful figures there is
nothing in the new models which ap-
proaches in nattiness and smartness
these loose coats without darts. Most
of them are in the tan and mode
shades, yet they may be meti with in
blues, blacks and browns, and bid fail
to be one of the most successful
knockabout garments of the winter.
| The short coats in broadcloth, mel.
ton, beaver and so on come just to the
outward spring of the hip, and are
often slashed both back and front t.
| give the bottom the effect of severa
/ large squares. Those which do not eff
feet the mannish yet captivating loose
ness described above fit snugly in tn,
! back and sometimes are as carefully
and snugly fitted in front as the bodice
| OF waist. But generally they have
but one bias. The favorite lining i,
black satin, although those made t.
| order often display the hues of the
Collars of stitched velvet are mos
/ popular, with rather wide revers of tn,
same. By the way, do not forge
/ stitched velvet is one Of the most pop
ular of trimmings for everything
Stitched velvet on a hat in bows, 70
settles or ear or cabbage shaped loops
lined with satin of contra A ing shade
is very desirable, while st'4 hed velve
revers, collars and belts a considered
formal enough trimmingsfor the hand
soonest of gowns.
Revers of fur ON handsome coats ar,
always in order But If one is buyins
a coat ready made or is having one
made it is better to furnish the fur. II
the former instance it is better to pu
all ones money in a plain and hand
! some garment, and in the latter it i.
| probable one would have to pay a higI
| price for a grade of fur not as good as
that which most women have on hanC
if they have always done their duty
| and parsimoniously held on to every
scrap of fur which came to them.
Great care should be taken in choos
ing the winter coat. 1t is in this, as il
most things, better to get a good ar.
ticle and wear it two seasons than t.
economic on quality and have coat
which cannot always rise to the dignity
of every occasion.
In coats and gowns this same rule
holds. 1t is not the multiplicity of gar.
ments which counts; it is the perfec.
ton of the few, and we are the more
free to spend the greater part of our
keep-out-the-cold money on one coat
because a cape for evening wear car
be made for about a third of what e
well-cut, well fitted jacket would cost