Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-26

smart dressmakers have long since
gone there for their cretonnes and
kindred fabrics, but this season they
are depending upon the upholsterers
to furnish many of the heavy trim
mings that are to be used on modish
frocks and wraps.
Many a woman is rejoicing over the
fact that she can wear her last win
ter's frocks, provided they were mod
, ish in their season, and not feel her.
self quite out of the picture. With only
"A little furnishing up, little fishu
here and there--or a large zone, for
that matter-a sash, or button, or bit
of lace, slight change of sleeve or
collar, almost any good last years
frock ought to pass muster again,
which story carries its own moral
When one selects inexpensive mate
rails and trimmings they should be
worn with care and be made. into
copies of the very best models of the
season, not the too popular styles;
then there is always reasonable Ger.
tainty that they may be used again,
for part of the new season, at least.
OF course there are certain details
which to the observing eye would
stamp frock as indisputably of the
new seasons vintage, but the changes
have not been so radical as to entail
disinheritance upon any of last, win
ter's smart garments, except perhaps,
in the matter of the suit coat.
The woman who wore her coat only
moderately short even last winter is
all right. Indeed. she is likely to find
herself quite in the swim, for the aver
age tailored suit still has its coat
moderately short, but "oh, the little
more and how much 1t is, and the lit
tie less and what worlds away"
Browning may not have had suit coats
in mind when he sighed the lines, but
the verse fits the situation as well as
though specially tailored for IL.
Already the short coats of yester-
year have taken on very bunty us
pect, although some of the new models
are as short as twenty-eight inches.
Very smart women, however, are in
clining rather to the thirty and thirty
two inch effects. Boleros go in and
out of fashion so persistently that one
hardly knows whether they are in or
out, but they are always de rigeur for
house gowns, while the coat of very
short hip length, certainly the. most
becoming of coat lengths, has been
mercifully wiped from fashions slate
for the present.
While coats are longer, there seems
to be no justification for the rumor
that they are again to be closer fitting.
There is a slight curving in of from
and side lines on some of the new
and there are, of course. GER
tain belted and girdled models which
are loosely held in, but the average
coat keeps its loose, straight lines and
it's shortened waistline in the back,
an effect usually obtained by clever
cutting and handling of the side sec
tions and various seams. That the
kimono sleeve has every intention OF
the change of seasons vs.
evident. Even among the best Of the
imported models one finds 1t and the
successful frock and blouse models of
the winter will show this sleeve IN
many notifications. The long sleeve
seems the choice of the ultra-smarr
woman for daytime frocks, however.
And a word in behalf of the Riddles |
for they have not been overlooked by
any means. Just now the Liliputian
baZaars are making a fashionable ap- !
peal with their winter coats. The !
warm, light weight silky woolens of
LIFELINE character which abound this |
fall are charming child coat fabrics, !
and so many of the other fashionable |
woolens which have slightly rough !
surface are seen. They combine soft |
ness and an appearance OF coy !
with lightness of weight, so |
that they are extremely desirable from |
every viewpoint.
One sees little coats of blanket or |
polo cloth, the white ones faced with |
'ose or blue being particularly child
sh and lkable. even If not altogether !
practical Light blue cloth trimmed |
n braid to match or in white braid
md white buttons is liked for dressy
coats, and some very good models are
shown this year in the tawney yellow
browns or brownish yellows borrowed
rom the grown-ups.