Ladies' Outerwear 1880s-1930s
Over the years, the plaited Eton and bolero jackets have proven to be fashionable outdoor garments. For early Autumn and late Spring uses they are worn with a very thin, light lining if any at all is used. For Winter coats heavier linings are a necessity.
The jacket is stylishly adjusted by under-arm and side-back gores, and a well-curved center seam which ends a little below the waist-line at the top of coat-laps that are rounded at their lower corners.
The double-breasted jacket is a particularly smart design; it shows graceful adjustment and is closed in double-breasted style with buttonholes and buttons and turned back above the closing to form lapels that are silk faced.
This illustrates a Very Stylish Ladies' Eton Jacket - a classic, short jacket originally, typically black in color, worn at Eton College. This vintage design dates from 1900.
Silver braid and buttons on velour give modish decoration for this zibeline coat; the skirt is of kersey. This useful garment is developed in rainproof flecked gray Cheviot, with machine-stitching, producing a tailored finish.
Mole-gray broadcloth was used to show the good style of jacket No. 7418 and skirt No. 7376 in combination, passementerie lending contrast. This all-black street toilette is a reproduction of cape wrap No. 7427 in panne zibeline, and circular skirt no. 7375, in broadcloth.
The coat, which is a double-breasted mode and is in this instance worn open, shows the long shoulder effect that is such a marked feature of military styles. It is pictured developed in sealskin, with chinchilla for the high, flare, gored collar and for facing the revers which the fronts are turned back to form.
This two-piece outfit is of fashionable cut and appropriate for formal or general wear, according to the material employed. Black velvet was used for the coat, in combination with chinchilla, and the skirt is developed in a fashionable shade of light cloth, with a decoration of black braid.
Costumes of this style are now called hygienic because of their shortened skirt, and they are as suitable for golfing, touring, and ice skating, as for stormy weather and general wear. The one here illustrated is made of striped suiting with stitching for the finish.
The Eton modes still hold sway and are ensured popularity for the coming season. The one forming a part of this attractive outfit is shown made of cloth in one of the pastel tones of gray, with appliqués of luxurious lace and bands of darker fabric outlined with gilt braid for garniture.
The extreme good style expressed in the outfit pictured at this figure will gain for it many admirers. It is shown developed from a lustrous-faced Venetian cloth in a rich royal-blue shade and white Lousine, silver-gray chinchilla affording the decoration; large blue-and-gold buttons are a practical as well as an ornamental feature.
Unusual style and grace characterize the beautiful street outfit here portrayed. Black velvet, light-gray cloth, and black silk were associated in the present development of the mode, with bands of gray Astrakhan for trimming.
Jacob Rapoport reports Paris couturiers have introduced new wrap silhouette. Mr. Rapoport returned from Paris recently bringing with him a most exciting aggregation of French model wraps, all offering different versions of the modern silhouette.
The appearance of a brilliant woman at the Plaza at the tea hour in an otter coat with a four-inch edge of seal skin following its odd square cut lines, worn above a smart tailor of black broadcloth, gave this idea an added significance.
The promotion of knitted outerwear to the point reached this year seems astonishing given the long early struggle to get beyond the mere a, b, c, when sweaters were clumsy changes made by the schoolgirl from her middy blouse when she played hockey or basketball.
The most radical changes in coats apart from belt questions are shown at the hemline and shoulders. Smoothly fitted shoulders merge into the 1830 lines, which are accented by trimmings.