The Daily Missoulian., 1913-01-26
Fabric Combinations.

Fabric Combinations.
Again this spring are silk materials
used with worsted stuffs, and all
sorts of materials draped together in
a wonderfully pleasing harmony when
one considers the varieties of colors
and Weaves thus mixed up. Some
times a shaped tunic over skirt of
contrasting material suggests the
fashionable draped effect, though no
actual drapery is introduced. This is
the case in a braided tailleur which
shows a coat and shaped tunic of OIL
i've brown cloth over skirt of lans-
doWne. The skirt is extremely soft
and clings about the feet just show
ing the buttoned boot beneath; and
the tunic is closely cut to the lines
of the soft lansdowne skirt and is
heavily weighted to keep it in place.
The cutaway coat is braided in a chew
ron design which obliterates the side
seams and above oddly shaped revers
of velvet is a squarely cut collar of
st. Gall embroidery in the new lacy
effect Many tailored coats have COL
lars or jabots of this new lacy em-
broidery which is just now more dis
tinctive than lace itself.
Slot seams are used as a decorative
motif on the suit of light brownish
gray ratine weave which is the most
conventionally "tailormade" type pic
tured today. The skirt of this suit
has a slot seam down the center front
and SLOT seams outline pannier mo-
tif over. the hips. The side seams Of
the coat are hidden under square tab
liers which overlap and are trimmed
with buttons and loops. The vest at
the front of this coat is particularly
interesting as new spring feature
and the the oddly shaped revers will
also attract attention from those who
watch for new style IDEAS A straw
hat with two white quilts shooting
backward matches the suit, and the
boots are buttoned walking boots with
duh calf tops on vamps of patent
leather.
Russian Blouse a Favored Model.
Every so often the Russian blouse.
which is really the most graceful coat
model Womankind can put on, makes
its appearance at the forefront of
acknowledgements usually rather
speedily, for Russian blouses are so
easy to make up smartly at home, be-
cause of the belt which covers such
a multitude of defects in the way OF
fit, that this style soon becomes too
popular and is abandoned by the
woman who dresses in exclusive style.
Just now the Russian blouse is in one
of Its periodic ascensions and no coat
style is smarter at the moment. These
blonses are rather short and are un-
gathered at the waistline, the belt
merely encircing the low waistline
over the perfectly fitting, but rather
loose blouse. or tunic. The blouse
may fasten down one side of the front,
or exactly at the center front. the
latter mode being the smarter A
Russian blouse of brick red cloth was
one of the most interesting costumes
worn in the Whip" the big English
melodrama from the old Drury Lane
theater of London, now playing in
New York. Beautiful clothes abound
in this production and the wicked
though very pretty, -villianess
wears some of the most Partisan of
the lot. The aforementioned red Rus
sian blouse suit was her costume in
the last scene when her wicked machi-
nations were triumphed over very
properly by virtue expressed in the
person of the beautiful heroine and
injured but innocent hero. This flame
red Russian blouse suit had touches
of black velvet at the lower edge of
the tunic. at the cuff and around the
neck in the shape of narrow, chic