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Show The fashionable Wrap. When Dame Fashion announced that very large hats and full sleeves would be worn, it was a foregone conclusion that capes would remain in favor, writes Isabel A. Mallon in an exquisitely exquisite-ly illustrated article on "The Early Spring Wraps" in The Ladies' Home JonrnaL All women who have expe rienced the difficulty of getting a full bodice sleeve into even a full ooat sleeve will be glad to hear that the vogue this spring is given to the cape, which is so easy of assumption and so many in its styles. Sometimes it is nothing more than a full collar reaching to the shoulders, shoul-ders, while again it comes to the waist or below it Velvet alone, velvet and cloth, cloth and satin or crepon are the materials favored for the spring capes. Trimmings are almost invariably beads, ribbons or laces. The average woman is apt to think that jet trimmings trim-mings are expensive. Of course this it so if they are purchased with the heavi iy cat pendants or elaborate spangles attached at-tached to them. Bat if a simple trim-ruins trim-ruins is bought, and one is industrious enough to sew more beads on it to spangle span-gle it heavily and to form out of single beads the pendants, a rich trimming may be obtained at the expense of a lit tie time, little money and a little patience. |