CAPES ARE GRACEFUL FOR EVENING WEAR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 282, 12 November 1936, Page 10

CAPES ARE GRACEFUL FOR EVENING WEAR

Capes, as well as jackets, boleros, and coats, are being worn for evening. For evening gowns of soft, flowering materials, capes are both suitable and attractive.

Perhaps no form of evening wrap becomes the tall, slim woman so well as the cape. It gives her grace if she has it not already, and still more grace if she has. Flowing from the shoulders, it has a sort of old-world charm, ana is reminiscent of the cloaks worn by heroines of Victorian novels. The cape can be so different. It can be quite short, almost like a bolero, with a fullness into which cold arras and hands can be tucked. Or it can be long and sweeping, falling to the knees with a wide spread from the shoulders. It can be straight-hanging, it can be circular in shape, or it can dip down a little at the back. Sometimes it is fringed with silk, or accod-deon-pleated. If it is of‘ filmy fabric, such as net, it can be trimmed with app’iqued designs. A cape has certain advantages over a coat. It has no sleeves to go out of shape with wear; it is easier to roll up and hang upon a chair at a dance, it is almost warm; and it can be

wrapped about the body for the warmth of the arms and hands. Not overslips, coats and capes are one of this season’s fashion notes, and are particularly admired when worn over frocks of figured fabrics. An attractive decoration' for these net overslips or cloaks can be contrived by cutting out some of the figured motifs and appliquing them to the net.