TOPICS FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 19

TOPICS FOR WOMEN

SOME NEW NOTIONS

This time next week you will be out at the races, and it's going to be fun! It is going to be cold, too, so be

sure you are clad in all the warmest woollies you possess. No fear of looking like a travelling circus even if you have piled on everything, including the kitchen stove, albeit a very elegant cooker in the shape of a fur, camelhair, or tweed topcoat, because warm clothes nowadays do not necessarily have to be buljcy clothes and that means they have every opportunity of being chic.

: You can get woollen undies as sheer and. beautifully tailored, as silken garments that will not spoil the streamlined symmetry of your suit or frock or make you appear the living embodiment of an Eskimo from the Pole., So. hail, rain, or shine, you will have a basis of warmth in the choice of cosy under-things. Apart, from them you will be waiting for the weather to give you some sort of a hunch as an indication of : what to wear on ■: top.

A PAYING PROPOSITION. 'You can't go wrong if you decide on some kind of a suit. Suits, the favourites, always pay, and pay and pay, for they are so adeptly suitable to many other occasions besides the races. Whether dressy or strictly tailored, they seem in any setting to be the acme of sobriety and elegance.

Therefore, if your day at the races constitutes the-happy"round of sitting in '• the stand- and • meeting all your friends, .laying , .an. odd bet -or two, lunching, not to mention .having cocktails in the new lounge, then you will he perfectly suited in a fur-trimmed

nobby-wool costume, a modish hat, and a-formal type of l coat or fur wrap. Again, you may prefer some sveldt little woollen frock beneath your coat, but remember that thus clad you may be warm, but you will not be happy, be it a murky day, puddling round the enclosure, ankle deep in mud and straw, your eye veil fluttering and your hair waving out in the gale while you lay your bets at the tote.

, For a real day's racing choose a tweedy sporting suit, whittled. and workmanlike in tailoring, feminine and fanciful in sinuous lines and clever detail. Then you may pile on top of this if it is a particularly cold or windy day one of those, wild horse-blanket plaid coats that no self-respecting horse would, be seen dead in, but which, made in a wrappy swagger or

KEEPING WARM AT THE RACES

slim redingote, is very fetching all the same.

TAKE A TIP. Or you may have already taken a tip from a "bookie" in picking a suit of lively-checked tweed over which you cannot do better than bring off a successful double with that racecourse classic the camel-hair coat. With suits and coats of this genre, mannish slouch hats are the correct accompaniment. See the new models made 1 of softest handkerchief felts, high rising of crown and sweeping of brim with swathed drapes of antelope accentuating the line, and you will be completely won by them. Shoes may be either low or high heeled, but of a definitely practical nature. Should it be a slushy sort of day, wet under foot, then with such an outfit your feet will not seem ridiculous encased in brogues and socks or those cunning little rainy-day boots that zip so obligingly closed right up the front and over the angle.

ODDS BOTH WAYS. On a day that shows the slightest tendency to rain, lay the odds both ways and take one of the new waterproof coats that are made, of transparent oiled silk which is proof against the elements, but so flimsy that it may be folded right up and slipped in your handbag if the thunderstorm turns out to be just a sun shower., Made in colours ias vivid and showy as the jockeys' satins, such a coat would not detract from the smart newness of your ensemble,.protected-but still quite visible through the filmy material.

As a final tip though, if you want t6 take the field by storm and be the cynosure of all eyes, emulate the faultless grooming of the horses, who are quite used to this sort of thing. If you choose clothes of thoroughbred distinction you will not only be picking winners on the course, but also in your own wardrobe, and there is no "horse" nonsense about that.—M.R.