South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-02
Fitted Lines Are
Fashion s Dictur71
For Mems Coats
BY SUE ID. O'NYM.


the speaker evidently being a bride:
81 am getting a great deal of
amusement out OF the interest my
husband shows in womens clothes.
He makes the funniest comments. He
even reads some of the fashion notes
in the paper and measures up the re-
mains of my trouSSeau TO them!
suppose he is being initiated into an
entirely new field of observations; he
hasn't any sisters, so Of course he
knew nothing abount girls clothes
before"
have sneaking feeling that there
are plenty of men who aren't grooms
any more who take struggled glances
at the fashion note Judging from the
self-conscious way in which some of
them juggle the correct veTbiage or
feminine fashions.
There are really some very inter-
esting things that might be said con-
corning the variations in mems fash
ions, too, that are thoughtlessly neg
lected-things that His Highness
would doubtless like to know.
Take the matter of winter over
coats, for instance. In line, there will
be a marked change With tendency
toward the fitted coat, according to a
man who has been head Of the coat
department for years in one of our
South Bend stores. The balmacan
has been retired though IT casts its
shadow behind in some Of the seam
less styles of the winter. The great
difference is in the sleeve which is no
longer raglan. Some of the coats still
have a tendency 10 flare, but the two
button, double breasted semi-fit coat
is better.
Another mark Of the season is the
lack of Innings. Very few of the mems
coats are lined and they make much
more slightly garment than the double
lined coats of the old days, with their
awkward bulk and straight lines. AS
for materials, they are confined to the
Elysians and vicunas of English make,
the Shetlands of Scotland. the Ker-
seys. Meltons and MOntagnacs and
the Crombies. The last named is an
imported cloth and is shown only in
the more exclusive models from $40
on up. II is heavy and has long nap
as soft as silk. The Kersey, too, is
soft, but not quite so as the Crombie.
The others are more decidedly rough,
especially the Shetland, which is, we'll
shaggy,
It seems to me that this season is
remarkable for the reasonableness of
women's suits, in both style and price.
They are conservative in line and in
color and in dollars and cents. One
store Is showing this week a. line of
beautiful sample suits-and when you
get a sample suit you know no one
else in town will have another like it
at from STATS to 1915, with a long
range of intermediate prices that just
about covers the range Of pocketbooks.
The more expensive ones are OF
kittens ear cloth and broadcloth with
braid and fur trimmings and satin lin
ings. Some of the most exclusive
models show decidedly Russian lines.
more so than the designs shown
earlier in the season. The skirts or
those coats were pleated to give the
fuilness; these are circular. The less
expensive suits are in whipcords and
sergeS, though of course these ma
terials are not confined to this mer-
chandise. Some very good-looking.
mannish suits in novelty cloths are
shown for SIS
Satin. by the way. and all "shim-
merry cloths are to be much better
than taffeta later or. The incliration
is shown in some good looking sepa-
rate skirts of black satin, shirred with
a high belt and clever little full pock-
cts. They are only $5.9S, too.
This is the season when we begin TO
take TO high shoes-the more cautious
of us, that is. So of course we are in
terested in shoe styles and shoe prices.
The gypsy boot. with the seam from
top to toe, though just a fad, will
probably be good all winter in black
and colors.
AS for prices. did you ever wonder
why some dealers cling-can afford
to cling-to low prices when they
make the highest claims for their
stock? I have, and I asked a dealer,
who knocks 81 to 1925 off the
ordinary price, how he can afford to
do it, and he told me it is because he
takes advantage OF the market. He
buys when and where he can get the
best stock for less money and if he
gets them for less money, of course he
can sell them for less money-and not
because they are poorer grade.