The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-14
White Coats all the Rage


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New York, Sept. 14.-Did you see
iast spring any of the oyster white
broadcloth coats or capes that ap-
peared here and there on fashionable
women?
They were conspicuous because they
were unusual, but everyone voted
them excessively good looking. Out
OIL the five or six that were worn in
New York on Fifth avenue about Eas-
ter time. there were not more than
two in the shape of coats; the prefer
ence was toward the cape.
The successor to this garment,
which will be inaugurated next month,
is combination cape and coat. 1t is
said to be more comfortable, and one
can well believe it is.
There is first the capelike coat that
hangs from the shoulders in straight
lines just escaping the hem Of the
skirt. There are no sleeves, merely
long Sits that reach to the waistline
and serve as armholes. They are pro-
tected in old weather by the cape,
which begins in high Puritan col
lar and spreads outwards to the hips.
It is formed much after the fash
ion Of the old-fashioned golf cape,
which came over from Scotland about
two decades ago, and which was, in its
; time, a most fashionable garment.
worn by those who could scarcely tell
a golf ball from a quinine pill.
Expensive, but Attractive
No one denies the fact that white
coats, like white suits, are tav upon
! ones income. They are ugly unless
immaculate, but this is day of clan
ers at every corner, and as we have
gotten into the habit of wearing coats
: that are not in serviceable colors and
that require thorough cleaning two
or three times season, there is nc
especial reason to draw the line al
/ white.
l. The cleaners will tell you that the
! absence of color is an asset, for the
. work of cleaning is better done ant
, there is less risk to run in the matter
d of streaks and discolorations.
$ The biege, sweet gum, slate gray
and checked coats that covered the
u land like swarm of locusts, were
not easily kept clean, and the tar
? tones had a most unhappy and dis
9 agreeable way of coming from thu
9 cleaners with foreign streaks o
brown over their surface.
/ Another economical reason ad
vanced in the propaganda for white
coats is that they can be worn will
any gown and anyone who has fallel
out OF the experiment of making col
| ored coat prove useful, realize instant
ly that this argument is the best
e. all
4. How many of us put almost our las
penny into alluring coats of biege AM
brown in various shades and paid GU
I6 another goodly sum of money to hav
the brown fur added to the collar an
cuffs only to be faced with the vi
pleasant fact that no self-respectin
onepiece gown we owned would b
iseen in combination with such coat
Their is only one thing left to do
such a case to establish peace
mind. and that is to make a trip
the cleaners and have the coat dye'
ty Dark blue is the prevailing choice
p and this may serve as a good bit
a. advice to the dozens of women VIII
are beginning to wonder what can
done with the coat of biSee, tan, swee
nd gum or slate gray.
TO- If YOU choose white coat, be SUI
that il is not that dead white that
difficult to wear and to keep clea
ill EThe oyster white is more serviceab
lal and fits in better with the autumn
re weather.