Fashions of 1800s to early 1900s
July 21 1919
From McDonald PA Outlook newspaper
Women's Summer and Sports Suits
Summer and Sports Suits
No one is prepared for midsummer unless she has ready for warm weather a
sport suit that may be worn with skirts of the same character, supplemented by a
sweater or sweater-coat. The sport suit has made a place for itself that nothing
else can fill. It is not an extravagance even for the woman who believes
in reducing her expenditure on clothes to necessities, for the sports suit
replaces dressier and less generally wearable clothes. It is smart enough
to take the place of afternoon frocks and it remains informal, whatever it is
made of. "Suit" is a term that covers the combination of a sport
skirt and a sport coat that do not match, as well as skirt and coat of the same
material.
A handsome example of the first combination appears in the suit on the left
of the two models shown in the picture. In this the skirt is made of white
satin and is made of one of those new weaves that appear to be better suited to
sports skirts than anything else. It is strong and brilliant. On the
overlapped seam at the left side, five large, flat pearl buttons are set near
the bottom. Nothing could be done more to emphasize the character of the
skirt.
The
coat is in the same class as the skirt, and is made of bright green silk
tricolette, with sailor collar and band of self-colored embroidery about the
bottom. A satin vest worn with it has small pearl buttons, set close
together, down the front. Bright green taffeta coats with machine
stitching of white silk, and coats crocheted of the green silk in lace designs
are more worthy among the novelties to be worn with white satin or silk sport
skirts. All the coats have belts or sashes.
The suit at the right is made of heavy ribbed silk--skirt and coat of the
same material. There are several patterns in these sport silks, some of them
in two colors, others in figured designs of one color. Angora cloth is a
favorite for embellishing them, placed in bands about the skirt and coat and
as cuffs and collars. But many of these suits are untrimmed, as the
fanciful fabric makes variety enough. Even in sport suits the vest has
made a place for itself, and it appears in this model with cuff at the bottom
having six little buttons set along the center. But there are many sport
coats that ignore the vogue of vests. -- Julia Bottomley (?)
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