Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-20
MOTOR COATS ARE
CUT DIRECTOIRE
NEW STYLES IN TOGS FOLLOW
FRENCH VOGUE
Small Buckles and Straps on Goats
Are Latest Partisan Novelty, Dis
placing Big Buttons For-
merry Used

In anticipation of the requirements
of their feminine customers, those
tailors and milliners who devote their
talents chiefly to designing of automo-
bile coats, garments and headwear are
turning out some exceptionally smart
toys for the ensuing cold weather. Be-
cause of the widespread influence Of
the directoire movement-or rather its
revival-upon present day fashions,
the newest coats show radical differ
ences from those of last season. A
marked change, due wholly to the
vogue of tight skirts, is that motor
coats are more closely fitting. In
many of them the backs are perfectly
plain and straight, while the fronts,
also plain and straight, separate just
above the waist line, so-called, where
they are Joined by narrow strap that
is run through a small buckle at either
end. 1t may be remarked in passing
that while large buttons and quantities
of them, are employed on automobile
coats, small straps and buckles are the
latest cry from Paris.
The new coats also show the much
discussed split effect, for n order to
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her knees when she is seated in car,
the sides of the straight, narrow gar
ment are slashed from hem to hips,
where is placed deep patch pocket,
and below that triple row of straps
and buckles.
Wide, incroyable revers are another
novel feature of the erstwhile severely
tailored automobile coat. They roll
back from the waist-coated fronts so
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slightly overlap the top of the Shout
ders, and are accompanied by the eX-
aggerated high incroyable collar, which,
more than any other detail of the di-
rectoire costume, is of distinct benefit
to the automobilist, as when buttoned
beneath the chin it protects the throat
perfectly. With these straight and
scanty coats are used the only sleeves
that could possibly be in harmony
These, of course, are the continental
which are of almost uniform width
from wrist to shoulder, where they are
set smoothly into arm eyes, which,
while not large, are sufficiently roomy
to admit of the coat being readily
drawn on.
Sleeves Give Long-Shoulder Effect
Sleeves of widely different character
are set into the wide arm eye of the
empire motoring coats, which also are
short wasted at back and front and
quite as Scant below the waist as
those which follow the incroyable idea.
These sleeves are set smoothly into the
oriental arm eyes and in every way
emphasize the long Snouldered effect,
as they seem to form a straight, un
broken line from collar to elbow,
where the fullness is taken up in clus-
tiers of narrow plaits running under a
deep Louis cuff. On these empire coats
the revers are the antithesis of those
used on the incroyable models, in that
they are continuation of a narrow
turnover collar, which turns back be-
low the throat and gradually widens
into points above the waist straps.
For use during our brief Indian sum-
mer which is feature of our American
autumn, a coat of some lightweight
wool will prove an adequate protection.
ANY of the checks from the shepherd
size to the large blocks are good in
black and white with a contrasting
collar, revers, cuffs and pockets Of red,
blue, green or chaudron, touched with
a little black braiding, a black scarf,
buttons or buckles. There are also
stunning coats of duh, ribbed silk and
tussah in all the fashionable shades
which are tremendously effective when
viewed from below the grandstand.
These are what every smartly CARRIED
and well groomed woman requires if
she wishes to look well at a fashionable
motoring resort, where a rather elab-
crate hat is in Order as the palmer
coats do not accord with beplumed
headgear. A soutache braided coat of
this description looks exceptionally
WELL and as they are made on. roomy
lines, are readily slipped on and off.
Their principal feature is long shoul-