WINTER WARDROBE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22071, 29 March 1935, Page 4

WINTER WARDROBE

NEW COLOUR SCHEMES RETURN OF THE CAPE BY BARBARA The backbone of every well-ordered winter wardrobe • should without question be a suit. This year the term suit " covers a very large field? No llonger is it confined to the usual coat and skirt. There aro two and three piece suit combinations that aro as variable as an April day. Jackets and sikirts are worn under capes or long coats, frocks are worn with capes or with coats, either short or long, skirts are worn with long coats, short coats and capes and with numberless blouses and jumpers. In fact, any, outfit which is composed of more than one part may l>e called a suit, and this, despite the fact that tho parts themselves may be worn separately—a frock belonging to a siuit may bo worn with a different coat or a suit coat may be worn ever a. variety of frocks. On this page I have sketched for .you a three-pieco suit of Scotch tweed, which has an endless variety of uses and can change its face for almost any occasion. Equally good for town or country it consists of a neatly cut skirt v;ith front pleat panel, a smar.t collarloss jacket with a button-up front and patch pockets, and an extremely dashing coat with a big lapel collar and a hen:i-longth "tuxedo '! of dyed "lapin." This coat, with its luxurious fur-trim-niiiag so typical of tho new mode, is warm and comfortable on tho polo field or at a country raco meeting, yot when worn over a frock or corduroy velvet or velveteen can go equally well to the. races in town. The jacket and skirt form the perfect apparel for those not-so-cool winter days in town and with a woollen jumper or jersey blouse can bo worn for golf. TJio other suit shown in the sketch is excellent for town or travelling. Thematerial is grey flannel and the suit with its gored skirt and shirt-waist blouse of navy blue and tie silk spotted

in white hrs a " Gibson-girl " effect, which accentuates the figure as all the new clothes The button-up jacket with its fairly wide collar and its stitched-on patch pockets are points of interest. .■* • Another suit in grey flannel consists of a skirt, a cape which is cuts like a nurse's and roaches midway between elbow and wrist and. a shirt blouse of ora age jersey. Then yet another suit of the same material has a long doublebreasted eight-button coat with a wide collar and big pocket flaps and a tailored wrap-over skirt, which shows two inches below the coat. A variety of blouses and scarves may be worn with this outfit. . ..; ' An interesting new colour scheme is green worn w:ith brown,. A green wool jacket , -and s skirt has aj brown top-coat ■ -with wide -green revers, or an emerald jacket 'is worn over a brown wool frock. An entertaining idea is to line your coat with the material of your frock. Hence afrock of green tweed knit confetti is worm with a coat of green corduroy velveteen lined with the dress fabric; A scarf of the corduroy is the sole trimming of the fy-ock.. v You will notice that in the preceding paragraphs tnere has been much men-, tion of'the word " cape." This year the cape is the essence of all that is chici. They ares worn for many occasions and in every length. A wide cape of black and white check wool will completely hide a woollen sports suit or .a jacket and skirt of plaid tweed will be made with an all-envelop-ing button-up-the-front cape to match. In the afternoon elbow and fingerlength capes of heavy silks and lightweight woollens make their appearance, while in the evening there are capes of every variety and length—tiny short ones' of white rabbit, luxurious elbow length ones made from twisted fox skins and sweeping full-length ones of velvet.