VOGUE OF BLOUSE-COATEES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18173, 19 August 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)

VOGUE OF BLOUSE-COATEES.

Running the jumper very hard are the new open-fronted blouse-coatees made of crepe de chine or georgette, foulard or broche. These have the advantage of a long open front finished off with a becoming roll collar, which is caught in on the line of hip by a deep band of fancy knitting and fastened with two buttons. This method of fastening does away with the necessity of having to draw the jumper over the head—a great drawback to jumpers in many women's eyes. One also finds a new typo of jumperblouse. This is made of pale coloured georgette, and i s bloused with a pretty over-hanging effect at the waist, where it is held in place by a wide elastic band. Over either shoulder is set a deep yoke of lace—Honiton or Brussels being used in preference to any others—while the wide bell-shaped sleeves that reach a little below the elbow are banded with the same expensive fabrici, Beaded jumpers made of silk stockinette, tasselled and tufted with curiously shaped bugles and beads will enjoy so great a vogue that it is possible their popularity mav be overdone. Far newer are those made of organdie striped in colour to cleverly represent faggot-stitching and drawn-thread work, while cotton voile showing elaborate frayed-out fringes and beautiful-hand-drawn patterns is another favourite fabric utilised by artist designers of to-day. l " A smart Parisian dressmaker is sending out fancy tailleurs or trotteur costumes made of grey hopsack lined with tomato-red crepe, and worn over a tomatored Jumper that shows a hem of the fine grey hopsack anoliqued in a design of leaves'. Model jumpers of the newest kind all Bhow round! decolletages, rather than the square-shaped necks of yesterday, and there is a tendency to introduce sleeves that, though still short, a,re considerably longer than the short shoulder sleeves of last season.