The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-05
The Low F,aSten1n5
a Kew FEATURE

TT WAS n toss-up. SIX months ago.
whether coats for the winter IF
- 1909-10 would fall jauntils just be-
low the hip or extend stately to the
feet The advocates Of the later style
won out. and all the new fall suits
show coats excessively lons. the Paris
models falling to within six inches c,
the skirt hem. Some very swasger
top coats appeared during the cool.
disagr eeable weather that attended the
Grand PriS. and the aeroplune fetcs
have also helped the eauturiers by
bringing out many aashing coat styles.
Ballooning has become "A positive fad
with fashionable women in Paris. and
the fair devotses of the new sport do
not pretend to affect the spectacular
bifurcated garb exploited by the news
papers. but simply don long. cnyelop-
ing wells and smart topcoats which
cover up the dainty frocks in which
they enjoy tea and cakes in the Pare
d'Asiation before the upward flight is
taken.
Warm Topeoats for 1alioonina.
These big coats are very warm. as
the temperature arops decidedly When
one Is soaring through cloud banks of
upper air currents. \ top coat ny
Druihle. which appeared at the Stella
Club of Women Bailoonists the other
day. was of raisin purple canefs hair
in coarse diagonal weave with clah
crate braidng in self color, These
braidings We're put ON in broad panels
and in huge pocket forms, the skirt II
the coat falling in side plaits below
these pocket patterns. Many of the top
coats have belts at the hip. the skirt
hanging i'm plaits from this point, and
there are Moyen Age coats with panels
at back and front and plaits from the
hip down at the sides Of the garment.
Trimmings at sideseanss Feature.
Hip and under-arm trimmings are
the fad this fall. as well as curious
cross-cut effects. many RI the smtrt
French coats being nut together in
geemetrical sections. Such Il coat
built by Soiovici. Is of malanse-or
mixed home spun-and is cut in SO
many sections. one laped over the
other. that the back looks like an arch
itect's plan. Two of these sections eN-
tend around To the front i'm belt fash
the bust, and the tabled ends cross
under huge jet buttons.
Fewer Buttons, Blu: More Elaborate
Not So many buttons are used on the
tailored out-of-door garments for this
fall. but the buttons that are used are
very handsome. - and s. being often
asked for a single button by the man
nfacturers. One may imagine how
substantial will lie the cost of n coat
bearing half II dozen of these expen-
siye button ornaments,
Lines are ass6eautfulz and Is simple
as they have been for the past t@a
seasons: for eouturiers. after working
hard aid persistently to establish LII
Ligne. will not sacrifice il for any
eyanescent Louis style period. So the
gay Louis effects which are already
making themselves felt in tailored gar
ments show themselves rather In
splendid embroideries and trimmings
than in any novelty of shape.
Braidins High in Fashions Favor.
Much hra1ding will be used. chiefly
in flat panel effects and large motifs.
Frogs and pessementerIc ornaments
are also shown on the dresSier models
sometimes loops Of cord Stimulating
huttonholes for huge buttons of 5et
or in jewel effects. These jewel but
tons, with eoiared stones SET in rims
Of dull silver ar bronze metal. are yeFs
smart, and ane af the coats shown IL,