FASHIONABLE COATS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 235, 17 September 1934, Page 11

FASHIONABLE COATS

Fashionable coats for the first sunny days of 1934 are long, short, aud a length somewhere between the two.

For the youthful person, the threequarter fashion in diagonal wool is becoming. It may be cut to hang loosely, with a high round neck fitted with a double yoke, the pockets and deep cuffs being stitched. Rather more dignified are the new fan shoulders edged with fur and here the high neckline should be finished with a cravat scarf. Squirrel fur is very popular and the material might be any light weight coating. Flat fur fashions appear every spring and this year there is a good deal of distinction about broadtail. It may be shaped as a swagger coat, on three-quarter lines, with unusually wide sleeves gathered into high armholes. Or it may be a jacket of fur, and to-day’s fashionable choice is one which fits well, and is of grey broadtail with many little silver buttons.

Yarn which stretches both ways is. in demand for sports wear —jackets being made with broad lapels, but no collars, and pockets ornamented with close row s of machine stitching. Soft tweed coats should be neatly tailored and trimmed with large buttons and broad leather belts.