Arizona republican., 1908-03-02
Stunning Street Suits of Plain and Striped Worsteds in One and Two-tone Effects Sleeves of Three Distinct Types
 Simple Costumes Smartened
 by Jaunty Waistcoats.

The woman who Is unable to find a satisfactory street suit among the new spring models must he exceedingly dif1- cult to please. for not only Is there a wide range of materials from which to select, but also a seemingly endless vari- stion If the fashionable hues and con- binatious thereof. Among the one-tone effects are noticed many of the popular biues-navy. sapphire. Gobelin and French porcelaln-aIl of which are to be greatly the vogue during the ensuing spring and summer. Gunmetal will he one of the principal gray shades. often combined with pearl and white in the form of wide and narrow stripes: hack and white will he used for shepherd checks and many twO-toned browns.
 Trig Walking skirts.
 So firmly have the pla!ted skirts with band trimmings enwrapped themselves about the heart of American femlninity that they have survived the prophecy aneHt tho supremacy or gores and cir rularS. It would seem as though every possible yaratioH had been made with p.aits. SO far as skirts go. but some of the combinations with Eores are abso- lutely novel and wonderfully triG. Two amongst these recent models possess the Nh t'tt VI SNllEtbI EIafPIuliN Btthhrt 'l the arTangemenf Of the sections. In one there Is cluster Of narrow plai,s. In the center of tho front and the back. with turee intervening side goreS. and in the other four groups of double box pialts alternate with the EOreS. These skirts arc markedly longer than those worn during the past few months. and iu most instances clear the ground by bare ly two inches
 Lax Sleeve LAWS.
 Coat sleeves are not governed hy any hard and fast rules. altho1gh ihrep dis iinct types aIe chiefly used The butter fv. which at first was considered rather too elaborate for tailor mades. is now enI- pioyeu for tEe very simplest Of them. and seems quiie as much in keeping with H shor' jacket and skirt as the full-len=Jh couventionally shaped coat sleeve or the three-quarier pun. banded to the a1.n he low the elbow. Save in the ease of the Japanese type. sleeves are s;ill plaited oc shirred into the armboie. and are moder- ateiy full albeit the prophecy that ahsu- iutey plain sleeves would be used has heen disturbing the sleep of Iunumerabie ihin-arDled women.
 Spring Coat Shapes.
 The criterion for coat shapes Is merely their becomiDgness. The woman vho is what the bTutally frank saies-oman terms 'hgureless, naturally does not select one of those natty. tight-htting little cutaways which reveal every charming curve as veil as every awkward angle. She clincs psrsistently to the haIf-ftting hack and box shaped front of medium length. differ ing from the erstwhiie popular Prince Chap by reason of its slngie- 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 lnsets. The length of butterfly coats is governed by the proportions of the figure but all of them extend well over the hips and are invariably somewhat lc- CT at the front and back
 On very similar lines is an exceedingly nntty cutaway with sharply pointed fronts and back. but with full pufred elbow