The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-02-18
COATS ARE TO BE SHORTER.
The Russian Blouse viii be Worr
Through Another Season.

New York, Feb. 12.-Every day finds
something new in suits as they drift
into the shops. But the novelties are
usually inconspicuous-the cutaway of
the front, the arrangement of the but
tons, the placing of the trimming, a
touch of individuality here or there.
So far, all that can be said Of the
wool suits may be summed up in very
few words. The coats are shorter
than the winter ones, but not to the
hip as yet in the majority Of cases.
Most of the best ones in as yet are
of the severely tailored style made for
mid-Season, and 1t is no time, in
this latitude, to put on hip length
coats after wearing coats below the
knees if not to the hem of the gowns.
Many of them are cutaway in front,
but not radically, only a slight slant
from each side usually. The collar
that comes nearly or quite to the
waist line continues, and the buttons
depend upon it's depth. If it Is very
long, only one or two, at the most
three, buttons are used and they often
come below the waist line. Skirts are
mostly plated, although gored and
even circular models are to be found.
Broadcloths are the first to arrive
and homespuns and wide vale serges
OF lighter weight than those used in
the winter. Colors, too, are noticeably
lighter, but this is to be expected for
spring. Quite few mixed goods are
to be found in the new suits and they
promise a run through the spring.
But such materials are burdensome for
summer and the woman who is to
buy suit that will go through the
summer will do well to wait until
the smooth serges, better suited to
that season, are here. Such suits will
be here soon, some have come now.
Rough weaves are liked better at
this hour than anything else for sturdy
tailor-mades for the morning-for
walking and travelling.
The long coat is still coming in for
the girls who refuse to give up the
tiattering lines of their favorite. One
suit seen here is made of a mixed
cheviot in tawney yellow brown, with
an odd panel braided with brown fall
ing over the shoulder to the left side,
and ending in a cord and tassels.
The skirt is plain and with the suit
Is worn waist of brown net braided
with brown and made over silk of the
light yellow brown.
There is as yet no dress in the
amount of braiding put on gowns and
suits. The soutache, fiat and on edge,
and rattail braid employed. In the
linen tailor mades the embroidery that
looks like rattail braid is a good deal
used, and effectively.
In suits with any pretense to elab-
orateneSs, pockets are a prominent
feature, and even in plain suits the
pockets Of odd cut are also conspicu.
GUS for odd shape and finish. In some
little fancy tailor mades that have
come over from Paris, the pockets are
a mass of soutaching and the coats
are only long enough to allow a place
for them below the waist line. Some,
times the edges of the pocket are all
braided or embroidered in the same
way and the lapel or collar always is
In these suits, the collars are of shaw
style and come down to the waist line
or near it.
The girls are going to cling to the
Russian blouse through another sea
son. The Russian blouse is distinct
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place on matronly figure. But the
girl that will wear the suit that is
odd until fall would do better to pro
vide the regulation tailor made coat
since that is always in style. The
Russian style is a feeting fancy al
the best and will hardly survive an
other six months, to say nothing Of {
longer time.