The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-23

row coats are not exactly beltcd, but
sections OF belts are introduced at
front or back Of the garment to em-
phasize the waistline, and these belt
motifs are usually acceutuated with
braid or button trimming.
The cutaway is by all odds the lead
er in coat styles this spring Every
uegree VI cutawaysm--to coin a word
lis found in the spring suits. Very
smart models turned out by custom
tailors for willowy dgures show a cut
AWAY effect sloping from a button az
the bust to a pointed coattail far be-
low the hips az the hack. This eX-
treme cutaway effect, however, would
be trying TO the average figure and
deadly ON the stout woman therefore
much modified cutaways are noted IN
the spring models offered IN the shops
But even the straight, mannish suits
OF serge or wool mixture designed for
general wear have the fronts notched
out below the waistline To suggest the
bopular cutaway effect so fashionable
in Paris now.
This cutaway line, together with
fanciful reVers OF contrasting fabric,
and dozens OF buttons, make the new
spring tailored wear very gay and
dashlng in character, and the sober,
mannish suit OF dark color, unrelieved
with trimming, is the exception. Even
when the revers and collar are In self
color there is very likely to be a coat
set of lace; and this year these coat
sets promise to be more fashionable
than ever. The wide eXpanse of clear
white is. however, no longer fashion
able. 'rhe cOat-set must be creamy
I'm tone and beside the new creamy
ret ana lace sets pure white looks
somehow crude and countrydiGk
Women with handsome Irish lace sets
are dipping them in weak tea to give
them tae desirable old ivory TINT and
this trick is exceedingly simple, the
toa dipping being done after the lace
is washed and the collar being pinned
out fiat, on a pillow, to dry in correct
| shape.
With these gay little cutaway coats
go straight, but gracefully cut skirts
quite as narrow as ever, but with the
narrowness relieved by new notes Of
trimming. Sometimes there Is a tunic,
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trasting material, or of the same ma
terial used in a different direction.
For example a suit of striped black
and white cosmos mixture had the
stripping used crosswise in the under
skirt and on the cuffs and revers OF
the coat, very smart effect being pro-
duced In this way.
| Again, the skirt may be opened all
the way down one side of the front,
the opening whloning six inches from
the bottom to show a V-sbaped section
of Opresumable) underskirt the
"billfold" skirt Is an arrival from
Paris. This skirt IS very narrow ana
straight and there are nut two cores
each tapping over the other, so mat
there Is a Hap all the way down front
and back-the flaps coming a little To
one side OF the center. All these
tunics, folds and flaps are more or less
elaborated and emghaslzed by rows
of buttons; and the buttons are em f,
Iphaslzed by buttonhole loops OF praAl
(which may ME two inches long or long
enough to reach half way across froht
or back
\ Slashes appear In all the pfeheh
skirts but American tauors content
. themselves with slashing up phe hAl''
leand then placing a modess pleaung OF