Show EVERYONE looks to the grand prax to foreshadow the styles tor 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 made a triumphal entry into the modes today and Is destined to be a feature in costumes for fall 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 BO frankly posing in the illustration given here the choice in materials Is immensely wide capes to be worn with suits are of the same material as the skirt white serge for present wear Is bbown with vest and cape attached and 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 is ally made of satin and in the majority of instances it Is black jt Is often cut much shorter in front than at the back and finished with a alde cape collar already very rich and very chic in appearance black velvet capes have made their debut not as a style prom leed for tall but as one already established because adopted by the smartest and most authoritative dressers ot the french capital many capes ot black satin aro lined with white silk or with white striped with black gay roman stripes in satin are liked for lining capes of cloth plain striped or cross barred patterns have superseded brocaded brocades bro cades tor this purpose but as the season ad vances it is likely that brocaded brocades bro cades will come in for some consideration the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 french women like so much by a heavy silk band made of several strands fastened together and terminating in long ornaments of A cape for a little girl is in white cloth and so tar as design Is 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 |