The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-06
What's in Fashion?
Springs Coat Favorites
-Directed Bv AMOS PARRISH

NEW YORK, April 6.--Hundreds
IN Of thousands Of fashionable
women voted yesterday for their
favorite spring coat. They voted
for it by wearing it in the thou
sands Of Easter parades all over the
country.
Among the many coats shown and
worn this spring we've chosen six
Of those selected by fashionable
wor-~- as examples ef 1870 Of the
most useful coats you can have.
Women choose these coats be-
cause they're good looking, easy to
wear, individuei And because they
make smart ensembles with dresses
Here they are:
ID The coat with the sc--- neck
line is a leading favorite.
Not any one particular scarf. But
fabric scarfs and fur scarfs, long
scarfs and short scarfs. Scarfs that
drape or button or tie. They're easy
TO wear because you can adjust
them in SO many different ways.
Shawl Collar Coat Liked
We've had one sketched cat the
bottom of the illustration) with
the practical fur scarf that's so
popular. This scarf can be tied,
draped or left to hang loose.
2. The coat With the shawl
collar isn't new. but it's one Of
the most important spring fash
ions. \ Because it's becoming to
almost anybody And because so
many women like the flattery of
the soft long-haired furs these
collars are made of.
Some of them are long shawl col
lars, extending almost to the waist
line. More of them are shorter.
Some are one-sided shawls, with
wide, almost cape-like collar on
one side and narrower on the other.
These can be draped up around the
throat or left hanging.
The center figure shows a smart
shawl collar coat with the fur set
back little from the edge.
Collar Is a Narrow Roll
90 A new kind of coat this spring
has quickly become a leading fash
ion-the coat with the narrow roll
collar.
1t can be worn with a separate
fur scarf or with a silk scarf or with
no scarf at all and be equally smart.
The sketch at the top illustrates
one of these coats and shows the
wider sleeve that's SO often found
with this narrow collar.
(4) A coat almost as fashionable
as the roll collar coat-and quite as
nevis the coat without any collar
at all.
It's sleek and sophisticated. But
you can make it feminine by putting
the collar of your dress outside or
by adding a soft scarf.
Cape Coat Still Favored
60 You saw lots of cape coats last
spring-so they're not a new type.
But they're still fashionable. And
the 1881 cape is different.
It's smaller this year, fits the
shoulders closely and sometimes is
draped in the front in the manner
of a fichu. A popular coat with
the younger folks.
co A sixth outStandingly fash
ionable spring coat is the one that
has 9. military look. And that
means it is one of two types.
It's fitted at the waistline, closes
in double breasted style and has
wide lapels. And then it's REFER
type of coat. Directoire, it's called.
Looks Like Uniform
Or it has wide revers that but
ton over or fall loose tas you
please and deep gauntlet cuffs.
And then it looks like a military
officers uniform coat.
OF course there are other fash
ionable coats. But these are six
OF those most in fashion. Most in
fashion because more women like
them than any other kinds.
tCopvright. 1881 by Amos Parrish)
Next-Amos Parrish describes
some dress fashions for the growing
girl.