Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-18
OfZntereSt TO Women
COVERT CLOTH RETURNS TO FASHION
By ANNE RITTENHoUsE.
dependence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK. December 17.-Even
those who do not acknowledge their age
have an agreeable memory of the days
| when a covert coat was desirable pos
session.
1t was tight-ftting garment. with
many seams outlined with stitched
bands of the material It had turn
over collar and revers, it was single
breasted and buttoned down the front
with tan bone buttons, and it was worn
over black or blue homespun skirt.
1t was a very. very good fashion, and
then it sunk into the depths. as all good
fashions do when their hour has been
| lived. But they do not die; they wait to
be resurrected not only once, but hun
dred times, as the centuries chase each
| other over the plane.
| This tight covert cloth coat was re-
placed after decade or SO by a box
coat of the same fabric. 1t also was
worn with separate skirt Today the
| fabric comes back into the limelight
are needed, when wool is still scarce,
satin over-played and serge trif1e out
worn.
The new covert cloth coat carries a
| skirt and proclaims itself as a COM
piete costume for the street-a costume
that the best tailors consider worthy of
| their skill.
Launched by Young Girls.
! These suits were thrown into the ring
1 OF fashion by the smart set of young
| women whose lives are so tremendously
active these days that they hardly
realize the fact that they have had no
| SOCIAL debut. no big parties. and none of
| the conventional social round.
| SO admirable were these suifs that
| others quickly took them up. although
| the older women have not yet Endorsed
! their fashion. 1t may be that this COW
ert cloth, along with taffeta, will reach
| the high tide of fashion after the year
turns and the American buyers have
| crossed the peaceful ocean and those
| with heatless houses in the north have
! gone down to sit in the sun in the
| palm groves of Florida and the pine
groves of Georgia.
| For the south, the covert cloth cos
| tune is alluring. It is a compromise
between what is Somber and what is
gay. 1t is a compromise between what
is hot and what is cool. 1t permits of
| blouse. or hip-length tunic, because its
color is neutral. and against it one can
splash whatever vividness one desires.
Again the Box Coat.
| Ihere are many rumors that France
| will overturn the existing fashions of
the world and create something as
toundingly new. She may, and she
| may not. OF that we will know more
in January. So far as the season
goes. however. there is no reason to
believe that the contour of clothes will
be overturned in short time; but it
| is quite true that the box coat, which
was launched by the French houses
in August, and which was turned out
by the American furriers in peltry
last January, is the accepted jacket
of the hour.
, The sketch shows one worn by a.
young woman, who wears the very
best costume she has to those gay
and hectic rehearsals for immense
charity affairs that have absorbed the
enthusiasm of the young girl ever
since the war broke.
The coat hangs from narrow shoul-
| ders in shapely lines. 1t starts with