Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-20

We are told that the two newest notes of the season are the coat wraps and the narrow skirts. The coat-wrap has as its reason for being the com posite idea that it is to serve it's country in a double role of a street coat and an evening wrap, while the narrow skirt reflects economy in its width even while it shows a tendency to lower itself towards the ankles.
 The double role is not an uncommon one in the winters program. There are even patriotic costumes which carry this further and aspire to play a triple part in winning the war. A suit for example of blue serge has three camouflaging accessories which have carried it through the autumn as a tailored suit, dressy suit and an aft ernoon frock quite successfully.
 This suit began by not meeting across the front of the jacket, a note of the winters modes by the way and then provides itself with three ways of filling in the front The first way is kept for morning wear This is a plain laundered vest of white pique, with belt, collar and cuffs to match. The vest buttoned down the front with white pearl buttons and had tailored button holes of red, while the belt was slipped through two sits in the serge jacket and had red eye lets. The collar is a part of the vest and very small as befits a morning coi- lar. The cuffs were a bit more swag- ger, being rather wide and held to- gether outside the serge sleeve with a large pearl button and red button hole
 With this is carried a red velvet bag of the new closed kind and a small red sailor of chenille and velvet. or close leather toque of some other brilliant color may be worn with it.
 For the afternoon there is another detachable vest, this of black satin was longer than the first and had wide revers extending into draped sur plice sash ends which were slipped through the slits in the serge jacket and carried around the waist to the loop together in the back. The but tons-only four of them showing be- low the wrapping revers-are of serge embroidered in wool stitches and each revere pointing as we'll as each sash had an insert of the serge em- broidered in dull Oriental colors. a clever touch designed to give the vest a permanent look and throw dust in the eyes of an unsuspecting public In its afternoon guise the jacket sleeves were allowed to retain their tight fitting lines below the elbow and were only camouflaged by the ad- dition of narrow black satin cuffs which were snapped in beneath the serge and gave a more dressy length to the sleeve.
 A large cart wheel sailor of black | satin faced up with white and orna- | mented with yellow hand painted dais- | ies completes the second phase of this l versatile suit
 While the third phase begins with | not only vest but long stole collar of velvet turned back on each side of the jacket and a wide crush girdle of the same rich material This trans formed makes a suit into an after noon dress of the coat style and the velvet being of a slightly greenish east harmonized the blue of the fine soft serge with the peacock colorings )f the embroidered vest of blue satin, while velvet cuff has fancy tab of he embroidered satin easily held in place with a pasted stitch or two. The stole ends of the velvet are finihsed with the fashionable and ever present ringe.
 In all three forms the skirt remains he same, but being of plain modish ut was equally suitable for each. With the last costume a svelvet cape md large mushroom poke of beaver md pale green satin completes the it. usion of gown moving in the best .ircles of society.
 There is also an adjustable skirt hat which is the wrapped sort fasten- ng over to one side or the other and presenting a straight plainness or a lraped fullness according as to wheth- er that side be the right or the left. This would be very easily effected for he material is of soft silk and is made
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