BACK-TO-FRONT COATS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 2

BACK-TO-FRONT COATS

British Couturier Shows Collection

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 pan.) LONDON, July 20. Women may soon have the choice of wearing their coats back to front if manufacturers adopt an idea shown in London today by Charles Creed, a top British couturier.

The “back-to-front look” was featured by Creed in a collarless unlined tweed coat. The coat was shown first with the buttons at the back with the front falling straight and completely unadorned.

Then the model, helped by an assistant, flipped off the coat and put it on again the other way round for a more conventional look.

Creed was the first of the 11 members of the Incorporated Society of Fashion Designers to show his autuinn collection. The “beatnik" or apache Look made an unexpected appearance when Creed showed a tight black leather skirt with a black and white knitted sweater, a black suede cardigan jacket and a black wool beret. The whole outfit made the model look as if she should be perched on the back of a motor-cycle. Creed's suits and coats had a bulkier look this season, achieved by big collars, fur-lining and fuller cut above the waist, although suit skirts were slim. The designer's colours were mainly muted—damson, purple, khaki green or blue-grey with brown—long an ugly-sister of the fashion spectrum—featured in shades from maize to whisky. Worth, a couture house known for dressing the diplomatic corps, also starred brown today In hairy tweed for day and amber velvets for evening.