The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-03
PARIS DEGREES
 RESTORATION OF
 THE SHORT COAT
Good News For Limited Pocketbooks As It Isn't Hard to Have Your Last Years Long One Cut Down

FIT the woman of good figure re- joice and be glad. The edict has H gone forth from the Rue de Ia
 Paix and the long coat is doolrled. For the tailor built woman this winter there are nothing but short coats, in which she can display to full advantage the comedy curves and good lines of her shapely body. Long coats lave had good, prosperous reign, any way, and the change is welcome, for, plea Eing as they were to the eye when they first came in, it was high time 70 hsd a little variety.
 Again, the woman who is at her best m fine feather, whom much ornamen- fsf1un becomes, and who does not ahine to full advantage in the auster- fly of raiment that was supreme last year, may breathe sigh of relief. For the most handsome suits that have come out of Redfern's and Paquin's s nre elaborately trimmed. A certain degree of last winters severity is to be perceived in some models, but they ere adapted mostly for morning wear and shopping It is always desirable to have Q suit of this kind in ones wardrobe, of course, and it will always be good form for the woman who can indulge herself in only few clothes.
 Heavily Braided.
 f In my visits to the shops that cater Do the best New York patronage 1 have noticed that the leading models nut forward were broadcloths, chev- tots and serges, most of which were elsborately braided. Some also had braid that was put on quite plainly. While jackets are not fitted quite closely, yet they follow the lines of the figure. To my mind this is the ideal cut for a tailor-made. 1t gives the ef- feet of looseness while still conform ing to the shape that nature and the corsetiere join in giving us.
 Fancy collars and cuffs are seen on Q great many suits, revers of velvet snd silk.
 Belts of patent leather are still much liked. Generally they match the cos tune m color. but if black is used for c trimming, it is continued in the belt. The new ones are extremely narrow, scarcely more than a line at the natu- fAi waistline.
 Gold Buttons.
 ], On the coat of 8 costume Of blue Eiotla, striped with black over big sailor collar of the material, falls one cf hairy white cloth, coarsely woven; each collar is simply stitched at the edges. Big bullet buttons of dull old gold continue the ornamentation; double cuffs match the collars. A second costume Of hne red wool, striped h clusters with three fine black lines, is trimmed with black mohair braid and big ball buttons Of black velvet. A third costume of white wool, striped with black, has its big collar and cuffs of white watered ben galine; on this are gold bullet but tons 4 fourth of rough. hairy white cloth has trimmings of white moire and buttons of white pearl. By these short descriptions it will be seen that at the moment there Is a furore for these buttons.
 Smaller buttons in countless quanti- 6es-tiny flat, gold things-trim an afternoon gown of white wood crepon, printed with Empire green, and built on Empire lines. The buttons sprinkle the sleeves, the neck band and the high belt of the corsage and the edge of the band hemming the skirt. A tailored costume of white watered bengaline is wonderfully effective trimmed with black fur and worn with Q black hat. All these new tailored costumes have short skirts piaited In some form or other. A cluster in the