The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-06

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The Military Girl has arrived.
She is here. and, like her prototype
the military man-she has conquered al
before her
We have had all sorts and description
of girls-the Summer Girl. the Athletic
| Girl. the Matinee Girl. the Horse Girl
but the Military Girl leads all the rest.
With her erect military carriage, hel
snugly fitted coats, with their fascinating
military capes. their gold braids and theil
bullet buttons, she leads the procession
and new recruits are daily and hourly
i fallin: into line.
And the military idea is everywhere
rampant.
Not only in coats-we can hardly say In
! skirts, although they are braided and
fashioned in keeping with the coats worn
with them-but in wraps and even shirt
| waists.
There are epauletes and capes and mill
tary braidings and frogs and cordelieres
and gold embroideries everywhere.
And such fascinating coats and hats
/ and costumes as the designers are now
turning out to be worn by the Military
( Girl!
] Very appropriately the greater number
| of the coats are t. be in cadet gray or
| blue cloth. although other shades and
| colorings are not neglected. and these will
4 be variously trimmed with scarlet and
/ gold and black. with gilt braids and
brass buttons. these latter being flat. or
round, or bullet shape.
OF course. the military cape Is indis-
pensable to- the correct soldierly effect.
and this the smart girl will vary in depth
and in width to suit the needs of her size
and style.
! CAPE FOR THE BROAD
SHOULDERED FIGURE.
If she be tall and broad shouldered she
will have the cape coming we'll down to
the waistline and fastening across the
chest with gilt frogs and loops and cords
Or IL she be of the more fairy type Of
figure. she will have the cape just coming
over the slope Of the shoulders. and will
be very likely to have 1t quite little
longer In the back than in the front.
OF course although the design be OF
the military type, there will be sufii-
GENTLY large variety in its expression 20
make lit applicable to all sizes and styles
of gill with an assured amount of sue
cess in each instance.
The girl who selects the cadet gray or
blue coat-and she will be in the large
ma jority--is almost sure to have
touch of scarlet or crimson velvet on 1t
somewhere. and this somewhere fire.
quently resolves itself into a high
standing collar, the effect OF the band OF
color around the throat being almost uni
versally becoming.
To the very few who cannot wear some
shade or another of red below the face
any of the many Complementary tones in
blue will prove a good substitute.
Braided in narrow gold suuracne, with
some Of the tressed braid between, the
effect is both stylish and becoming.
DEEP TURNOVER COLLAR
SUITABLE SUBSTITUTE.
The girl who does not like the high
choker collars, however, can Just as we'll
have a deep turnover collar or a fiat
shaped band of the velvet surrounding the
somewhat cut-out neck, which will be
much liked in all cloth costumes, and
which will In no wise detract from the
severe military lines of the rest of the
garment.
In the separate coat which may be worn
with almost any sort of frock beneath,
the military girl will prefer one with a
tight-htting back. the front semi-fitting,
or else with the extreme straisht-front
effect, and the cape coming down to a
point where 1t will not hide the pretty
curves of her svelte figure.
For the palmer and more unitarian