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Show Forecasts For Spring Apparel New York, January 11. Comfort and ' convenience these are the two qualiflations attributed to sport clothes since the first woman dared don a skirt short enough to uncover un-cover the tip on her boot. Would these same sport clothes be quite so generally favored think you, if these were the only words with which to commend them? If there were' not something particularly youthful and becoming in the chic severity of these same sport togs, their sale would be quite limited I am sure. One of the most attractive of the new materials for suits and dresses is the latest phase of Jersey cloth. It is being used for the dressier frocks and the semi-tailleurs, for afternoon wear, The Cape Dress, indoor skating, tea, dancing, calling and like purposes, as well as for the regulation sport suit. It comes in all the new shades, blue, green, brown, and the various other tones now mod-I mod-I ish. Often on the more trimmed of these Jersey costumes there is a touch of taffeta or a bit of braid. These suits are fashioned after the belted Russian models, the smart flared coats and skirt, and for the strictly correct sport suit along the Norfolk lines combined with an equally severe skirt. The New Cape Appears. Among the new features which, of course, are but a revival of the old, is the cape. This appears upon all types of frocks and suits in the form of the shoulder cape, sleeve cape, and cape collar. The full-skirted, simple-bodiced A MOCALIj Zouave Faille Suit. iti B McCall Wool Jersey for Suits and Frocks. frock of taffeta, worn at an afternoon tea, the skating rink, or the concert, displays its cape collar, or series of collars, when it is not featuring a Puritan-like shoulder drapery, crossing cross-ing surplice-fashion in front, and held in place in back by a girdle, from below be-low which tiny coat tails or tabs appear. ap-pear. There is some indication too, of the cape returning as a separate wrap; in fact pelerines of quaintly quilled taffeta are being shown to wear over light summer frocks and are now being worn in the south. Many of these display the unfitted, rather bunchy-looking collar which accentuates ac-centuates the slope of the shoulders thereby living up to one of the chief requirements of the present models. Many circular and directoiro caps matching the hat are among the season's sea-son's attractive fancies. Alarming Width of Skirts. Paris is reported as practically losing los-ing her head over the width of the skirt. She gave out the pleasing dictum dic-tum of "a trifle more length," just a while ago, and proceeded straightway to offset it by adding to their breadth. Many of the new skirts on Paris models, it is said, are gathering material ma-terial in -about the waist with no re-' re-' gard whatever to the figure beneath, in fact a woman wearing such a skirt or frock has much the appearance of an animated barrel or something equally ungraceful. The medium skirts with just a bit of fulness about the waist, combined with the simple quaint bodices now smart, are dainty and becoming, suggestive of the grace of the figure beneath, as they are. The new models so reminiscent of the days of 1830 and 1850, are full of charm if extremes are not indulged in. Batiste Collars on Tailored Suits. Collar and cuff sets of organdy, batiste, ba-tiste, linen, and other like fabrics, are to be worn for spring with dark tailored tail-ored suits and dresses. They serve to brighten the costume and add a fresh touch which is dainty and grateful grate-ful to the wearer. Colored sets, in Russian embroidery, are particularly pretty. Neckwear in general is simple sim-ple and plain. Combination of Sheer and Heavy Fabrics. The popularity of using a sheer fabric fab-ric and one somewhat heavier in the same frock or blouse, is a notion that is attractive and economical. Crepe Georgette combines well with crepe de Chine, taffeta, or faille in blouse and frock. Serge and satin or taffeta, ' broadcloth and satin or taffeta, are favored combinations for the street dress, the touch of silk or satin in the same, or a contrasting shade, adding much to the beauty and the becoming- ness of the model. A simple serge H frock gains much by the addition of H a tiny turnover cuff, or a small collar M of satin. Often the entire upper sec- H tion of the skirt or bodice in the more jH dressy gown is entirely of taffeta or H satin, while the lower section is of H serge, broadcloth, or gabardine. H Among the new materials for these M simple dresses and suits, even for the H more dressy models, one sees wool H poplin and similar lightweight weaves. H |
