LONDON FASHIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 260, 1 October 1936, Page 13

LONDON FASHIONS.

AUTUAIN WOOLLENS. Afany novelties have been produced in woollen materials for the autumn. There are hairy woollens, tufted woollens, smooth woollens, new bouclets, some of which have hairs woven on the surface, and a great number of I interesting tweeds, says the London I Times. There appears to be more colour than in previous years, and many of the handsomest and most effective of the Scottish woollens show discreet uses of high colour. ■ Eildon tweeds, named after the hills between Alelrose and Selkirk, are rich in colour effects with shimmering greens and smouldering reds lurking among darker tones and with an odd hairy surface giving them a soft bloom. Among the Cumberland tweeds is a lovely cloth in suit weight in a marl mixture. An interesting fancy weave shows a small square within a square | on a plain coloured cloth; this is good in rifle green, dark royal, and dark i brown. . 1 The Sweetinburgh collection is very | good this year. All the new woollens have clever descriptive names which . distinguish them from one another. | “Autumn crocus,” a Scottish material, j has firm little tufts in high colour in a ■ fancy yarn on a dark-toned overclieck. j “Country Club” is a heavy fancy yarn i on a dark neutral ground with blobs of colour mixtures; the effect is of a crossdarn splashed with colour. Typical mixtures are a green ground with a' cross-darn and blobs of mulberry, vivid : grass-green, and a stab of scarlet; cobalt ground with green, mulberry, ! and red ; a fawn ground with mulberry, : green, orange and canary blobs. ; A new Donegal tweed has a snowy , surface and is very coarse yet supple | and firm. It is flecked with colour and; is a heavy coating for travelling wraps, i Among the colour mixtures in which it' is made are cream, mushroom, and apricot; fawn, amber, and mushroom; j grey, cream, and very dark Vandyke- : brown. “Stirrup-Cup’* is a good material for suits for the country, as i owing to the number of flecks on soft mixture grounds any number of different coloured sweaters can be worn , with it. J