The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
WHAT'S IN FASHION?-
Informal Coats for Travelling

4 and eggs. September and trav-
cling seem to go together. Lots OF
fashionable people annually plan
their trips for that month.
They find it particularly pleas
ant time Of year in the mountains
Invigorating at the seashore. too.
Grand for ocean trips-and with all
these reductions in steamship rates
it looks as though there'd be more
Of those this fall.
The smart travel coat this fall is,
as always, the coat with an in
formal, comfortable, easy fitting
look. But not a sloppy, careless
look 1t wants to look well tailored,
well f1tted-and to stay that way
after much hard usage.
Little Difference in Types
There's very little difference be-
tween fashionable informal coats
and fashionable formal coats this
fall, except for material. And even
in material there's less difference
than formerly. Some of the smart
rough woods that you've been as
sociating with informal coats are
now appearing in dressy coats.
The silhouette is much the same
in both types of coats. Usually,
though, the informal or travel coat
is belted, while the formal coat is
newer fastening with buttons.
You'll find the same wider look
to the shoulders, the higher waist
line and straighter skirt section in
the informal coat that you're going
to find in dressy coats. The same
fashionable shawl collars and scarf
collars.
Tweeds Still Important
Tweeds are still the most import
ant material for t,"vel coats. Not
bright contrasting color tweeds,
though, but colors softened down
and blended until the general eff
feet is that of one color.
For example, you look at tweed
and your first impression is that
it's medium beige. But when you
examine it closely, you'll see that
it's mixture of a light beige and
a dark brown.
Mixing just two colors is the fash
ionable way of tweeds now. There
are fewer tweeds with bright hecks
of contrast color high on the surface.
More Of them have their color ac-
cent sunk into the material so it
blends.
Diagonal Weaves in Two Tones
Some of these two-tones mix
lures are woven in diagonal fash
ion. And though the diagonal
weave is distinct, these colors, too,
are blended to give an almost mon
otone effect.
A black-and-white tweed in dag
onal weave, for instance, would give
more of an oxford gray effect than
distinct black and white.
The one-color or monotone wool
ems which you saw last fall are even
more fashionable this year. And it's
this type of fabric that has been
taken over by dreSsy coats, too. The
surface is rough and the weave
often an uneven diagonal in an
effect something like a herringbone.
New DoIman Sleeve
There's one of the newer types
of informal coats showns on the
left-hand figures. 1t has the real
dolman sleeve-a new fall fashion
that gives the wider look through
the shoulders.
This is a good sleeve to choose
II you plan to wear your informal
coat over suit as it leaves plenty
OF room for the heavier material
beneath.
This coat is made of diagonal.
rough wooden in plain color and
finished with caracul scarf.
The other coat is a two-tone mix
ture giving the effect of one color
with medium length shawl collar
of long-haired fur. And the fash
ionable wide shoulder look comes
from raglan sleeve.
Copyright 1881. by Amos Parrish)
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