The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-06-14
SEPARATE
COat Has Gone Out Of Fash.
ion In The East
And Each frOCk Must Have
Its Own Coat
CIOakS For Evening Wear
Are Very Handsome
Some Pretty Cuff And Collar
Sets,ShOwn
s-~'-------~ss
Hose This Summer Must
Match Costume
(By Florence Fairbanks)


to- be regretted from considerations
of economy that the separate coat
that might be worn with any COS
tune, has gone out of fashion. Each
frock intended for outdoor wear calls
for it's own coat or wrap, and even
the sheer summer muslins, the elab.
crate afternoon frocks and the ev-
ening frocks are accompanied by cor
responding coats and accessories if
they come from the establishment of
prominent designer The long, all
covering coats of silk, tweed, serge,
etc, designed primarily for motor
wear but often used for trotting pur-
poses, are almost the only offerings
in the genuine separate street coat to
be found in the shops.
Tailors make up coat and skirt mod
els which are worn with blouses to
match, or frock and coat model for or
dinary street wear There are guam
titles of silk coats, satin, taffeta, moire,
corded silk, crepe, messaline, etc, but
they are made en- suite with frocks
and are seldom adaptable to other
costumes. In Paris these silk coats,
often of vivid blue, are almost in
variably very short and prone to piqu-
ant, old fashioned lines Even the
Elton is once more In evidence, and
along with it come quaint little
basqued affairs, loose, frilly short
jackets. Russian coates with belts
and with peplum reaching only to the
hip line, picturesque Directore models
with big soft revers, shoulder capes,
ETC., funny little dolmanlike wraps
which have capes over the shoulders
and scarflike draped fronts crossing
surplice fashion.
There is no end to these short
coats and wraps and each is more
chic than the last, though you need
time to accustom yourself to their
abbreviation. Whether they are SO
generally becoming as the longer
coats and cloaks is a question of
taste. 1t is true, they consort better
with the short skirt which is pre-
dominant in Paris, but the long flow
ing lines are kinder to the average
figure.
1t is well recognized fact that
American women, as rule, are far
more conservative than their sisters
in France. The importers know this
and they usually order the original
models modified to suit American
taste before bringing them over here.
However, not all the costumes pro-
duced by the famous designers in Par
is are bizarre. Many OF the handsom-
est creations are devoid of any sensa-
tional features and may be worn by
the most conservative women.
Long coats and cloaks for carriage
and evening wear are lovelier than ev-
er before, and the triumph of the sea-
son is the filmy cloak of chiffon, net
or lace, usually without lining other
than another tone of chiffon. The sea-
sons yelling mania is reflected in
these diaphanous summer cloaks,
ana here as in the chic frocks exquis-
ite color harmonies are obtained
through superposing one sheer layer
upon another of contrasting tone.
Sometimes, however, the cloak is of
one tone, the color contrast being left
to the frock worn under 1t. Sheer
black or white is often exquisite
when a colored frock glows softly
through its Yelling folds, and the
same is true of some of the neutral
tones such as the popular pinkish
beige, sand color and the grays.
Sometimes plain chiffon is laid
over a fiowered chiffon, and there are
beautiful models In shaded chiffon,
nnlined and finished with bordering
marabout. Graceful models of this
type but In plain one-tone chiffon and
of simply draped lines are offered at
very moderate prices.
All sorts of odd little shoulder
capes or wraps draped in chiffon,
lace, satin, ETC., are being exploited
by the French designers, but usually
en- suite with frocks. Oddly enough,
Directoire modes, supposed to have
vanished, are reasserting themselves
not only in millinery but in coat and