Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
Stunning Street Suits of Plain and Striped
Worsteds IN One and Two-tone Effects
Sleeves Of Three Distinct Types
Simple Costumes Snartened
by Jaunty Waistcoats.
by Jaunty Waistcoats.

The woman who is unable to find a
satisfactory street suit among the new
spring models must be exceedingly diff
cult to please, for not only is there a
wide range of materials from which to
select, but also a seemingly endless vari-
alton Of the fashionable hues and COM
binations thereof. Among the one-tone
effects are noticed many of the popular
blues-navy, sapphire, Gobelin and French
porcelain-all of which are to be, greatly
the vogue during the ensuing spring and
summer. Gunmetal will be one of the
principal gray shades, often combined
with pearl and white in the form of
wide and narrow stripes; black and white
will be used for shepherd checks and
many two-toned browns.
Trig Walking Skirts.
So firmly have the plated skirts with
band trimmings enwrapped themselves
about the heart of American femininity
that they have survived the prophecy
anent the supremacy of cores and cir
culars. 1t would seem as though every
possible variation had been made with
plaits, SO far as skirts go, but some of
the combinations with cores are abso-
lutely novel and wonderfully trig. Two
amongst these recent models possess the
the arrangement of the sections. In one
there is a cluster Of narrow plaits, in
the center of the front and the back,
with three intervening side cores, and
In the other four groups of double box
plaits alternate with the cores. These
skirts are markedly longer than those
worn during the past few months, and in
most instances clear the ground by bare
ly two inches.
Lax Sleeve Laws.
Coat sleeves are not governed by any
hard and fast rules, although three dis
tinct types are chiefly used. The butter
fly, which at first was considered rather
too elaborate for tailor-mades, is now en-
ployed for the very simplest of them, and
seems quite as much in keeping with a
short jacket and skirt as the full-length
conventonally shaped coat sleeve or the
three-quarter puff, banded TO the arm be-
low the elbow. Save In the case of the
Japanese type, sleeves are still plated or
shirred into the armhole, and are moder-
ately full, albeit the prophecy that abso-
utely plain sleeves would be used has
been disturbing the sleep of innumerable
thin-armed women.
Spring Coat shapes.
The criterion for coat shapes is merely
their becomingness. The woman who is
what the brutally frank saleswoman terms
''hgureless," naturally does not select one
of those natty, ught-itting little getaways
which reveal every charming curve as
well as every awkward angle. She clings
persistently to the half-htting back and
box-shaped front Of medium length, differ
ing from the erstwhile popular Prince
Chap by reason Of Its single-breasted
fronts sloping slightly from below the
waist line, but with precisely the same
type of collar, cuffs and pocket flaps made
wholly of the cloth or with silk or velvet
insets. The length of butterfly coats is
governed by the proportions of the figure,
but all of them extend we'll over the hips
and are invariably somewhat longer at
the front and back
On very similar lines is an exceedingly
natty cutaway with sharply pointed fronts
and back, but with full pulled elbow