The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

copyright, 1919, by the Mc'
Paris, September 6.-When women go to
look for caps, American women that is,
they ask if satin capes are not out OF
fashion The shops offer satin capes to
the Americans the moment they ask for
wrap; that makes the American sus-
picious.
When one goes to the experts who
make tailored apparel and to the high
priced dressmaking houses the first thing
offered in the way of wrap is q cloth
cape The reason that Americans feel
that satin capeS have had theid day is
the generous supply OF them in the Ce-
partment shops and the fact that the
French women begin to wear capes even
in the afternoon.
This does not mean that satin ones are
entirely discarded, but 1T must be adj
nitted even by those who possess them
that the newer kind of cloth appears
more exclusive. 1t is difficult for an
amateur to tell the exact difference in
cut between the satin cape of yester-
day and the cloth one of today; one
realizes that the latter is not so long
as the former and that it is not held
around the figure in the Roman toga
fashion that has prevailed 1t is left
to swing free OF the body at it's hem.
During the spring and summer the
French woman has used her hands to
hold her mantle. arranging and rear
ranging it like a scarf. Today she uses
her hands freely and permits the cape
| to take care of itself.
| 1t is cut in such fashion that it ad-
| justs it's own lines it Is narrow at the
hem, but 1t does not draw around the
knees and tighten the line there 1t has
| long armholes, placed at the waistline.
and fullness from the neck Line, back
and front. 1t still resembles a coffee
bag drawn in at one end.
| There is no diminuton of fulness above
the knees in any of the new garments.
The skirts are widened to seventeenth
! century proportions in some of the ex-
! IRENE models. 1t is not possible there
| fore that one should wear capes in the
Roman toga fashion when seventeenth
century hoop skirt beneath it.
i 1t is to meet this new movement in
clothes that the cape of the season has a
wider hem than its predecessor. 1t also
has cape across the shoulders in the
| English fashion. First there is a long
cape to the knee, which it not drawn
| in at the hem. but cut slightly narrow
at the seams that it will not fly with
| the four winds Of heaven: on top Of this
! foundation cape is a short one that hang
| to the waist. fitted at the shoulder with
/ q
come through long slashes in the foun-
daton cape.
! 1t is well-known version of an old
sporting cape for men and women and
it has been returned to favor without
warning and is we'll received. 1t is
rarely made in solid colors. Large and
small checks and plaid are plentifully
| sprinkled over the new fabric. and of
these fabrics are cloth capes made.
! The plaids are not in bright colors
\ they are not Scottish, but British. They
are black and gray, brown and buff
! black and white They are lined with a
solid color. Bright Innings are not used
i in them. nor those of printed fabrics
That fashion appears to have died out
! over here where large garments are to
| be handled.
| The most conservative houses continue
to face the short jackets that are parts
| OF coat suits with boldly lowered de.
1 sign in satin but long coat a cape, OF
! a satin wrap is demurely lined
/ GOOD FOR AMERICANS
| These checked capes are better on the
| stalwart Anglo-Saxon figure than on ths
small rounded French one, and they will
probably be taken up in America for this
reason. The high-crowned sailor hat In
black velvet or satin and the silver