NOVEL TWO-PIECE SUITS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 107, 9 May 1927, Page 12

NOVEL TWO-PIECE SUITS.

A COAT THAT IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS.

The new stockinette jumper suits show an infinite variety of designs in which tucks, pleats, checks, and stripes all have their place.

Woollen jumpers with horizontal stripe in contrasting colours are very popular, and manydelightful colour schemes are to be seen in the shops. I noticed a new idea in two-piece suits the other day. At first I thought it was jumper, pleated skirt and coat to match, but when I came, to handle it I found that the "coat" was really part of the dress.

It was stitched to the frock all the way down, about four inches from the edge, thus allowing the "coat" to flap open a little. Scarlet, blae.k, and biege wt>re the colours used, and a very soft little felt hat of scarlet completed the ensemble.

The Suffrage Commission of the Chamber recently adopted unanimously a proposal favouring the principle of giving the vote to women in France. A bill dealing with the subject will be presented in the Chamber of Deputies by M. Tremintin. r i x ;

If pleats have things their own way on sports skirts, tucks and stitchings of all kinds get an innings on blouse, corsage, and jumper. They run horizontally, diagonally, or may be worked in scallops. A noticeable point this season is the way smart effects are gained by seemingly simple means. Though appliques, incrustations, and strappings are used, they are seldom from an outside source. When trimming is needed, the material of the dress itself provides the solution. Yokes, real and assumed, appear on sports blouses, jackets and dre«Ma»>\ . .. • Paris .has decided that last word in smartness for the sportifeensemble is spoken by the black and wfifte outfit. A sweater and cardigan coat in fine white wool take unto themselves a skirt of "pleated black silk marocain, are looked upon with approval. A union of white Kasha and black silk stockinette or crepe de chine is good Even black taffeta cut on severe lines was seen in a suit worn with a jumper of white silk crepe and completed by a shaggy white flower. The fabric flower, without which no sports cardigan is complete, may bemadein one or both the 'wMdi form the