The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
Winter Sport Clothes May Influence Street Clothe
 So They Should Be Watched With Interest

ming and as a sport fabric, however, is established and this is sufficient result. Women who had bought leather coats last winter got them out when they found that the new ones were selling at over a hundred dollars; they put fur collars on them and found themselves, with delight, in possession of a garment that ranked at the top.
 They have made these jackets serve for the street. for. by buying a rough cloth skirt in a soft coloring to add to the coat they have saved the price of a new tailored suit, and the price this season Is beyond the limit set by the most extravagant Marie Antoinette and Catherine de Medici would think they had lived in vain If they could hear these prices quoted. What queen could not pay in those centuries Is now paid by working women. Such is the progress of money as the world advances.
 The leather jacket is not an eco- nomical garment to buy this season, but it can be made to serve so many needs that 1t Is much to be desired. Cloth skirts to so with it can be built at home and odd lengths picked up as remnants. 80 the initial cost is the only serious thing to consider.
 If one wishes a fashionable leather suit, however. 1t is not possession to be lightly approached. The people who do nausht but make sport clothes are the cheapest, and many women con- sider them the best in the end; again, there is . possibility of buying a leather coat from those who sold them to the army. Several women have bought these Jackets from demobilzed soldiers and aviators. or simply taken them away from their male relations and had the sport apparel people make narrow. short skirt to match. The latter garment must be of much softer leather than the coat, otherwise it will be clumsy and difficult to fit to the lines of the figure.
 The model that leads all the rest was built. frankly, for street wear, al- though this does not lessen its service for a sport costume. The skirt is plain and unusually short for the American woman. It is nearer the length adopted by France for the last two years. The jacket fastens straight from chin to waist, Is held in by belt with broad leather buckle, and has queeriy shaped collar that ends as a cape It Is lined with sealsldn and hangs to the hem of the jacket at the back. The cape is of seal. also.
 FLANNEL IS Much of the time Of REVIVED. the makers of sport
 clothes Is taken up with new kinds ,of costumes for golf, for those links on which the snow faII nr.A @f 4I.z foA vived, one that women accept with eagerness, is old-fashioned flannel Of this Is long, loose blouse built. sub stitute. one might say of the red flannel undershirt, which the austerities of the war really revived in some sections of the country.
 For woman who insists upon com fort combined with style a difficult achievement by the way, there has been a golfing suit that will be copied for country wear even for those whose greatest exercise is to rock on the porch. The short skirt is finely pleated in beige and brown checks and the blouse is of soft flannel in beige, that slips over the head and is widely belted. Green worsted embroidery f1ickers at all the edges and there are round green
 
 at the neck and the turnover cuffs A cap of green suede has a slight visor to protect the eyes, and the tan cloth and leather shoes are put over green woolen stockings. It is copied in beige and bright blue as well as tan and red.
 You can see how easily this original costume will lend itself to all kinds Of open air life. Ordinary cream fan nel, by the way can be dipped into any color and turned into long embroid- cred blouse to match a skirt; such garments are the first aid to economy, and if the prices of fabrics and work pianship continue to rise in the future as during the last year, we will have to turn back to the sewing room, the basin of dye, the ironing board. and all the other expedents of our imme- diatc ancestors when they were arrang- ing their new clothes.
 That would not be bad idea. It is well that the world should turn once every so often to thoughts of economy coupled with ingenuity and individual skill. It might keep us from the fate O. Rome and Carthage.