LONDON FASHIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 13

LONDON FASHIONS.

OUT-OF-DOOR CLOTHES

Tailored clothes now show so many experiments as to make the eonventional, 'closely modelled coat ancl skirt almost old-fasliioncd, says the London Times. For instance, there is a short coat with a short pleated bird’s tail. There are also short coats with basques and with pleatings on the revers. The bolero, shorter still, has been revived. More modern are square padded shoulders. There is a loose tweed coat with big shoulders in three-quarter length styles; the fulness is boxpleated at the back, or hangs loosely from a yoke. This coat in shorter form appears in woollens for town and in printed silks to go over silk afternoon frocks. Morning jacket suits are another development; they button rather high, and ■ pockets and revers may be double, slanting, pouclisiiuped or hciu-t-suaped. White pique or marcella is much used for giving a sharp line to revers and collars. While the Margot ruffle is seen oil the dresses of ensembles, the Wellsian sharp shoulder line on walking suits has an affinity to a starched rever. The Margot or Marie Stuart bonnet goes with little tailed or basqued coats, and the bowler or the lull'd coalite shiny straw jutting forward with more modern coats. There are finely box-pleated tailored blouses of plain crepe-de-chine and fine linen lor wearing with plainer tailormades. More elaborate blouses show drawn-thread and fine tucking. Some little afternoon blouses are in iancy silks to match coat linings. Colour contrast is seen in the piping . of pockets of jacket suits or in tlie linings of capos, boleros, and coats, but it is not general. Soutache braid is also used on coats, but it suits only plainsurfaced materials Spring fur coats follow the same lines as the others. There are loose black broadtail., coats of finger-tip length, and coats of grey lamb, American broadtail, and dyed ermine. Boleros of mink and lamb are made with wide shoulders and full sleeves.