TIMELY HINTS FOR THE WELL DRESSED WOMAN

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 247, 21 November 1914, Page 6

TIMELY HINTS FOR THE WELL DRESSED WOMAN

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tny social pretensions or Wtt \Y/wls not ' it'takes'a number of !j§B W SvHdrcsses to get through the if she lives in New arid wishes to be correctly dressed. A morning health tramp is taken by a groat many women and a special coat suit, much simpler than the tailored suit used for shopping on the avenue, is worn. Sometimes it is very outing in style and an the Norfolk lines that happen to be in vogue. I saw one such in a dark shade of beige, on the duvetyn order. The coat was two-thirds length, plain and loose, belted just below the waist by a four inch band of the material., The Norfolk pleats that such suits generally have were omitted, replaced by three large patch pockets. The skirl was plain, with a few pleats in the front and b:*ck. 'Pi... i : -t u-n« nf ilio Rsuiip .material, with

the rolling brim stitched and palled into becoming lines about the face. The laced tan shoes had lighter tan uppers. Checked and plaid materials are also used for this type of suit These, too, have patch pockets, like the one pictured here, and a skirt that is circular. The morning, tailored suit for shopping and lunching in town is generally on simple lines, though it is not always of simple material. This season, the long redingote suit is seen iu suits of every price. There are also models of the famous "thirty-six" inch length for the short woman who always keeps to this length because she never looks well in anything else. These suits, like the redingote coats, have a tendency to ripple in the skirt part of the coat. They are generally cut circular and attached to the body of the coat at a long waisted seam. They have more fitted lines than the suits of previnno o«asnns Broadcloth is

the material that is used most for these suits, but velvet, both chiffon and panne, and the new caracul cloth fabrics are also appropriate. The coat linings are seldom white. A fashion that is becoming more and more in vogue is to have the coat lining and waist of the same material, so that when the coat is thrown open a very decorative effect is obtained. Striped materials are used for linings, also the new picture satins that are very posterish in color and design. An ivory tint usually replaces white. In many of the new velvet and broadcloth tailored suits the coat buttons up to the neck, and either a band of fur replaces a collar or a ruche of velvet is added to give a decorative look when there is a small rolled over collar on the coat. Chantilly lace waists are nosed over

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colored chiffons or gold tissue or lace. The result is a very elegant corsage when' the coat is removed at concert, lecture or matinee. Panne and chiffon velvet will be very fashionable for afternoon dresses and a decided tendency toward fitted corsages is noticeable. There is a very long full over tunic in many of Jhem that gives the bell shaped contour to the silhouette, as in the afternoon dress shown here. One of the newest shapes in afternoon dresses, a Paquin model for winter, is of panne velvet. It has a foundation skirt

of black satfn, accordion pleated, and over the hips of this there is an added fulness made by a full side gore of the same black panne velvet that is used to maEe the overdress. The overdress, which is like a Directoire redinsote coat, is frank-, ly on fitted lines, though the panne velvet is wrinkled in places into the seams. The slashes at the sides expose the applied panne panel on the underdress. The sleeves are of Chantilly lace over white chiffon. A pretty note on these under--sleeves is the applications of colored beaded motifs, that show through the Chantilly.