Show EVERYONE looks to the grand prax to foreshadow the styles or tall and the event Is rarely disappointing to those looking for ideas at the recent meet no one had trouble in absorbing the fact that the cape has a triumphal entry into the modes today and Is destined to be a feature in costumes for tall there are capes long and short separate and attached to jackets or coats and in all sorts of materials and there are capes for all ages as may be gathered from the picture of the french worn an so frankly posing in the illustration elven here the choice in materials Is immense ly wide capes to be worn with suits are of the same material as the skirt white serge tor present wear is with vest and cape attached nd similar models are made of the various fashionable cotton fabrics in white or black and white but the separate cape which Is to do duty with any sort of dress la ally made of satin or bilk and in the majority of instances it is black it is often cut much shorter in front than at the back and finished with a wide cape collar already very rich and very chic in appearance black velvet capes have made their debut not as a style prom ased for fall but as one already established because adopted by the smartest and most authoritative dressers ot the french capital many capes of black satin aro lined with white silk or with white striped with black gay roman stripes in satin are liked for lining capes ot cloth plain striped or cross barred patterns have superseded brocaded brocades bro cades for this purpose but as the seaon ad vances it Is likely that brocaded brocades bro cades will come in tor some consideration the cape shown in the picture Is of black satin and is lined with the same it is swung from the shoulders in the manner freach women like so much by a heavy silk band made of several strands fastened together and terminating in long ornaments of pas semen terie A cape for a little girl Is in white cloth and so far as design la con corned is a replica of that worn by her elders the elaborate fastening is omitted and the wide collar also as a concession to the simplicity which is demanded in clothes for children capes are convenient graceful and never entirely out of fashion they are easy to make and there Is no question of their coming popularity |