The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-09

NEW YORK, Sept 9.-You've
IN the right idea all right if you
choose a street dress for your first
fall costume. With clothes so good
looking and so different, you want
TO get out on the street and show
the world you have something new.
And Of course you don't want to
cover it up with last springs coat
and it's still too warm most days
to wear a fall coat. So the clever
thing to do is to choose a dress
that's appropriate to wear on the
street without a coat.
That means one that has a crisp,
tailored, business-like look. One
that gives you the same finished air
a coat gives.
Obviously one Of the best dresses
to wear without a coat on fash
ionable fall avenues is the dress
that looks like a coat-the coat
dress.
The Coat Dress
It's called coat dress because it
goes on like a coat. You open it
put your arms in the sleeves-wrap
it together and fasten it just as
you do a coat.
1t has details, too, such as a coat
might have. The button-or buttons
that fasten it over at the left
side.
The diagonal closing line. A fat
shawl collar effect. Sometimes a
scarf that can be fastened close
around the throat or left falling
open.
Often it has fur trimming as coats
have. Not the fluffy, long-haired
furs, Of course, because those.
wouldn't be practical to wear under
a coat later on when coat-wearing
weather arrives. But the fiat soft
furs.
Slightly Raised Line
We've had a coat dress sketched
the first of the three figures
that shows this use of fur on the
wide revers that make it look very
much like a coat.
The skirt has the slightly raised
line in the hem of the wrap-over
that lots of coats have, too.
AS matter of fact, a dress like
this could be mistaken very easily
for coat. Could be worn as one,
too, except for the fact that the
material is the lightweight, sheer
wool that's so fashionable. and so
comfortable for these in-between
season dresses.
New WOOlenS Smart
These new woolens are quite the
smartest thing you CAM choose for
your dress that's to be worn coat
less.
And they're practical. Good-wear-
ing and a weight to tailor well. |
Warm enough for crisper days but
not too warm for those last Indian
summer ones.
Heavy, rougher-surfaced silks
are good materials for these early
fall street dresses, too. Some of
them have almost wool look in the
granny texture of their surface.
The dress sketched at the center
is another type fine for street wear.
The wide, notched lapels have
suit-like look 1t has pockets in
the skirt, placed just about where
suit pockets would be.
Good Type to Choose
This is a good type to choose if
you have a fur scarf of fox or mar
ten or sable that you're planning
to wear, since scarfs like those al
ways look SO we'll with suits.
The third sketch shows a slight
ly more formal dress, but one that's
still tailored enough to make it
quite appropriate for street wear
It's one Of the modern versions of
that old fashion, the basque dress.
SO smart in the last decade of the
180G's.
The basque takes the place the
jacket would take in suit. In
deed, it looks quite like a Jacket
with its wide revers.
These revers, incidentally, can be
closed-the right one over the left
to close up the neckline when the
wind blows.
Copyright 1881. by Amos Parrish)
Next: Amos Parrish describes the
five fashionable kinds of hats for
men.