NEW CHIC IN THE RAINSPOTTED OILSKIN

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

NEW CHIC IN THE RAINSPOTTED OILSKIN

Summer is the most important time for smart rain coats, as lightweight frocks require protection from sudden showers. In winter there is not the same need for raincoats, as most womens rely on their cloth coats for protection against the weather. Raincoats are now as smart as topcoats, and are specially designed to wear over printed spring and summer frocks for sub-tropical showers.- The coats have special features to ensure coolness. Saunters are the newest style, and parchment the best colour, because it is summery and cool looking. •Transparent oil silk in such colours as lemon, green, blue and orange is very effective worn over prints. Umbrellas match, both in colour and the same oil silk.

Lengths are slightly shorter—but must reach the hem of the frock in the fitted styles, while, the saunters can be worn a little shorter still. There is a coat macintosh without sleeves which features a divided shoulder cape. This style is belted and finished with patch pockets. Rubber capes will continue to be popular. The plain colours—which have contrasting pipings—are black, red, green, cream and white. A new note is introduced in' rubber capes with checks in brown and white, green and white, and black and white. Shapes in umbrella handles are as novel as the materials of which they are made. One umbrella has a carved wooden dog’s-head handle with exact replicas in wood on the tips. Another has a dog’s-head handle of fur, also a ferrule of same fur. Yet another has a tricky handle which discloses'a cigarette container when a tassel is pulled from the umbrella handle top. The pagoda shaped umbrella is the newest; it looks just like a very squat mushroom.—Overseas Exchange.