SOME NEW HOLIDAY NOTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 19

SOME NEW HOLIDAY NOTIONS

Soon Easter will be here and it is already time to be thinking of what you will want to take with you if you are going away for this important holiday event. Even 11 you are going to be' a stay-at-home you will need to give the matter of your clothes some careful thought because at Easter there always seems to be some -highly exciting social event such as a race meeting or a ball or a family wedding or friends coming unexpectedly to stay! It's a wise woman who is prepared for all eventualities.

Don't be afraid of being too early in deciding what you are going to do! to brighten your wardrobe. It's the early bird that catches the worm, youj know. Though that is a very ancient adage, it is one that is tried and true. Just leave your Easter shopping any later and you will find all the choicest stocks have been well picked over. Go to your dressmaker straight away too or you may find that she is booked right up and is ,unable to fit your order in. It's no fun to be stranded with nothing nice to wear when everyone j else is dressed in their best. I SUGGESTIONS FOR A TRAVEL COAT. Of first consideration to the holidaygoer is her travel coat, which will need to combine a light appearance with a warmth of quality if it is to fit in well with the seasonable picture. Some people like'to plunge headlong into winter fashions long before the appointed season arrives, and when there is still plenty of time to wear out more summery fashions. For this reason light colours with heavy textures are to be advocated, especially if you are contemplating the purchase of a travel coat Pale colours are more individual for a coat that you can wear immediately and on right through the winter too. Just vision for yourself the charm of a fawn, buff, or a mustard coloured tweed coat of the sportsy calibre cut on full swinging lines and with plenty of pockets and a hooded cowl collar or a fine upstanding frame of soft fur about the throat line.

The added recommendation to .go for a coat in a pale colour is that it will comply in matching up with almost any other colour you like to wear in your dress underneath it. It would also allow latitude in the selection of hats and in style and colouring you could discriminate to suit yourself and the occasion, by choosing anything from a snooded Dill-

EASTER IS NOT FAR AWAY

box to the most informal-looking turban, Nor does a pale coloured coat get shabby and jaded looking after long hours of travel as does a black or navy one. You may say * that a pale colour would show dust and grime more easily than a dark coat, but on the contrary, if the colour is chosen with care it will take grime without a sign. ' THE NEWEST LUGGAGE. The newest luggage is also in pastel tones of a plastic substance that is lighter in weight than anything we have come across before. This luggage is light enough for air travel but stalwart enough to go on almost any trip, by land, sea, or rail, without showing signs of wear and tear. If you are travelling alone, then you will be the one to welcome this light and airy luggage that you can carry yourself without feeling as if you were Atlas carrying the weight of the world. Some of it has a fine Morocco veneer but all of it is very modern and practical looking and is bound to make its owner feel as proud and pleased as Punch! ■ • : ...... MR-