SLEUTH FASHIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19141, 6 October 1925, Page 14

SLEUTH FASHIONS.

If the new wrap-over cloak fashions and their attendant wider brimmed and sombre hats " catch on" at the autumn dress openings women will be going shopping looking startlingly like the stage detective of popular fancy, states an exchange. Already some of them are being shown privately in London salons, and the would-be fashionable are taking lessons from the manequins in cloak deportment. The whole secret of wearing the cloak is not to huddle it round you like a bath robe, but to wear it with a fine air of disdain," one manequin was saying to a distinguished circle of clients. The clients, impressed, but dubious, were persuaded to doff their trimly-fit-ting suits and don a Sherlock Holmes' cape, but the " fine air of disdain " proved a more difficult matter. These wider hats and fuller cape-coats will change the hatpin silhouette which has bcsn in vogue for so long, but the stiil-too-p'uinp must not take too much heart at this. Although a cloak undoubtedly hides unmodish curves and the inch too many, the dress that is designed to wear underneath it is of even straighter and slimmer cut than those of last season, to wear which, with any success, the fashionable ones took to toast and water.