Pocahontas star herald., 1923-11-30
FASHIONS
(By Lillian Meriwether)

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out new fabrics new colors and new
models of coats, giving triple measure
of interest to the woman buyer. As
the outer wrap is of paramount import
ance I'm autumn fashions, she should
select her coat now while the styles
are new, varied and worth seeing. They
are lovable things The casual lines of
yesteryear are gone, and in their place
are tip-tilted fiounces and swathed eff
fects that require practiced wrappings
before ones mirror.
This is indeed a season of coats.
There are special fabrics for coats for
daytime, afternoon, evening and sports.
There are special furs which should
be worn at the different periods of the
day. Fashion has so decreed that
each occasion demands coat all Its
own, different in line, in fabric, in fur,
in personality!
I For day wear there is the informal,
long wrap-around strait line coat. a
modified dolman sleeve is featured,
cut away at the hip line and with ex-
treme left side closing. II is of
striped and plaid camel's hair cloth.
brushed faced nubbed cloths and in
both imported and domestic fabric
novelties.
Coats for dress or normal wear keep
closely to long straight lines, cleverly
preserving the slender silhouette even
when they are varied with flare bot
toms. This breaks the mOnotony of
straight lines yet keeps the Silhouette
within narrow bounds; affords smart
Iy decorative note and still preserves its
simplicity. The flare sometimes is of
fur, embroidered metal cloth or tail
ored seton tuclls. Many dressy coats
are differentiated by trimmed-on-one-
side effects and fur is used in every
imaginable manner on collars, cuffs,
and as bands and borders.
For the woman i'm general who can
buy hut one coat, there is wide var
ietv from which 10 choose They are
made Of the most velvety fabrics, rich
and lustrous, and developed into the
smartest tailored effects, or are COM
bined with the most generous use of
fur. The styles are varied to meet
j every preference. There are the slim
silhanettes fastening to the side with
a button or a tie sash, flat at the
back and front; some with slight full
ness at the side. or the belted styles,
more loose line, better adapted to the
large figure. There is the tube con-
tour. with is various notifications,
such as the godet insert, the circular
flomce and the flare.
The coats are IN black. brown, grey
and blue made of fabrics including
luxona. gerOna, fashOna. marvella, for
mosa. lustrosa oriona, and numerous
others. Some Of the fur trimmings
are bever, fox, squirrel, caracul, lynx
and mole.
In the full length fur coats will be
found flares and panels presented in
many charming ways. always preserv-
ing the straight-li effect, but varying
slightly to admit some striking inter
lpretations. The short fur coat is Il
practical favorite. and the short coat
can he bought OF imitation fur or of
brushed wool i'm the newest colors and
are as swanky as one could wish.
The Misses coats are every whit rs
rich as their elders, yet with subtle
differences that acknowledge the de-
butante's claim TO lighter graces. OF
course the slcnder-as-a-willow silhou-
cite prevails, tnless it be broken by
tier upon tier, the ripple Of iiounce'
or the circular fare One of the new
est of fashions Is the cape back or
capette. swinging youthfully from the
shoulders or merging with the sleeves.
In the less expensive coats will be
found the typical college girls styles,
becoming for school or business wear
I'm the wool mixtures i'm stripes or bold
plaid cut with set-in or raglan sleeves.
and topped with collars Of imitation
fur.
For wear IN the motor or in town
during stormy weather, every adequ-
ace wardrobe has at least one top coat
IL is usually of rough homesp1n weave
OF heavy threads in big plaid Of tan
and dark blue, the plaid outlined with
fuzzy threads, woven with the hard
twisted homespun. They are warmly
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