The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-16
Gayest Of Capes
Wholly in Style
Dark Blue Liked, but Every Color
Is Used and Materials Are
of Rich Texture

same color fiaring from the waist 10
the knees and overhung with silken
fringe the depth of the chiffon. One
Of the prettiest fancies Is that OF veil
ing the short satin capes in cloud OF
tulle and holding this in place with
Jet, IL the wrap is black, or with pail
lettes or sequins of the color harmonis-
ing best If a color Is used.
/ AS we shall undoubtedly wear our
furs the year round, the term summer
furs no longer seems absurd, and
neither. do the fashions especially dis
played for this season. The little fur
capes which appeared 1aL year ard
which were so inadequate in that time
Of bitter, biting cold, are here again
in every sort OF skins one could ask
for and more in demand than ever.
However, 1t is the capes OF these ma
terials which will interest us most
| just now and / note with interest
| that large number of spring suits are
mounted with a cape coat fitted with
| the vestee and sash so often seen to-
gether.
These new coat suits have the cape
effect falling in a rounded point with
out fullness and resembling an old
! fashioned dolman in the back. The
| sleeves which make the coat part are
| long and tight fitting. The loose,
| straight box coats which have been
gaining steadily in favor are first
cousins in fact to the cape, for they
| fall away from the shoulders and over
the vestee at the front in just the way
a cape does. The little box coat by
| the way has found a way to break the
straight tight line at the hips, for
lately many of the little jackets APP
pear slashed into square scallops all
the way around the hips.
| May supplant the Sweater.
The sport cape is a joy as we'll as a
thing of beauty, and will, dare say,
supplant sweater or sport coat, as it is
made up in wool Jersey and the fab
RIGS used for sport suits, is Just hip
length, appears in the most vivid COL
ors, such as Italian green, British red,
heather and bright yellow. The vestee
which usually accompanies the cape Is
OF white. with large brass buttons, and
the gay little affair is most effective
worn with white tricolette, wool jer-
sey or serge skirts.
The cape is garment as indispen-
| sdpie 10 the average family where
there is more than one daughter as the
old family horse everybody could drive
with safety used to be. Every mother
with a grown up daughter will recog-
nize the truth OF that old saying,
When you have a young lady daugh-
ter you have nothing else" truth
particularly applicable to the missing
white kid gloves or silk stockings
missing at just the moment mother
needs them most. Mothers too have
learned to endure and actually to en-
joy these experiences, and l am sure.
therefore, in the average family one
splendid, well made cape will serve all
its feminine members we'll If it be Of q
neutral and conventional shade which
anybody" can have, for the cape does
not have to fit and each wearer can
impart her own style just as the Span
ish women do with their mantillas.
The Puritan cape is one of the ac-
cepted models. However it is not
made up in gray or brown, as were
those in Priscilla's day, but in the
ubiquitous blues all modern Ewes adore.