The Yale expositor., 1914-07-02
Garment Seems to Have Sprung
All at Once Into the
Greatest Favor.
ALL STYLES ARE ALLOWED
Designs Of Every Nation Copied and
the colors Are Equally Varied
Chief Charm is That II Can Be
Worn With Good Effect
by Any Woman.

AIEW YORK.-One Of the surprises
~ of the season is the immense
and universal popularity OF the
cape. Almost over night capes became
the fashion. They made tentative ap-
pearance at the spring races in Paris.
Their possibilities were Immediately
noted by women on the lookout for
the new, and presto! all over the civil
lied world where fashion holds sway,
capes have sprung into being as the
approved wrap for midsummer wear.
The kinds OF new cape are legion.
The designers have drawn on the cos
tunes and customs OF every nation for
ideas, and at a smart race meet or
country club opening Arabian capes,
Bulgarian capes. Russian capes. Bre-
ton capes. English Inverness capes,
Austrian military capes, American In
dian blanket capes and Roman toga
capes rub elbows, as 1t were, In merry
and inconseQuent confusion. Some
capes are jaunty, others are stately,
others severe. still others graceful and
picturesque. And in color the new
capes range from pure white through
all the vivid, modlsh shades to dark
mixed worsted and Scotch wool suit
ings, the heavier and more practical
fabrics OF course being used for util-
ity capes for travelling, steamer and
sport wear, while the dainty white
broadcloth and pastel colored silk
capes figure as delectable wraps, worn
over dressy frocks at garden fetes. re-
gattas and the like.
New Capes Universally Becoming.
Any woman may wear a cape-that's
the beauty OF 1t. Nobody need bother
to consider her lack of height or sur
plus Of too, too, solid flesh, when the
desire for q cape becomes consuming
One may select the sort Of cape that
best becomes ones height and weight
and that is all there is to It, There
are so many, many sorts of capes that
everybody may be suited. OF course
the short, plump woman-if she has a
grain of sense-will not pick out a
voluminous silk cape which, when the
wind gets under 1t on breezy lawn or
boardwalk, will make her look like an
animated barrel; nor will she choose
q stately, long cape to the knee which
will require the height of a tall,
willowy woman TO carry on success
fully. There are dozens Of short capes,
Of cloth, OF eponge. Of silk, of gabar-
dine, saucfly cut and with graceful
lines which are most becoming to
small and short women.
Everybody has been thought Of and
planned for By the resourceful cape de-
signers and prices are as accommo-
dating as styles, for one may pay as
low az $16 or as high as $50 for q
summer cape-wrap.
The Cape Keynote.
A vaistcoat, cunningly cut to form a
part OF the garment. makes the 1914
cape new and individual. Otherwise
or without the waistcoat-it might
be taken for an 1890 cape. rescued
from the attic trunk and treated to a
good pressing to obliterate the
wrinkles Of time. The mothers of the
generation now stepping TO the fore
on the social stage will recall the
fashionable military cape of the late
SOS which--without the waistcoat-
was very much like some Of the smart
and modern models of today. Every
maid, wife and matron OF that time
had one of these comfortable and con.
venient military capes and cadet blue
vss the favored color.