NEW AUTUMN SUITS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 4

NEW AUTUMN SUITS

ABUNDANCE OF POCKETS PLAID MATERIALS POPULAR HEATHER PINK TWEED COATS BY BARBARA You can have as many pairs of pockets on your new autumn suit as you wish. Some of the vorv latest suits boast four pairs on a jacket and four pairs on the blouse that goes underneath. Usually these pockets are inverted —bound and clocked in true tailor fashion. Often the binding is in contrasting colour to the suit or it may match the skirt which contrasts with the jacket. Bindings are a point to remember both in suits and frocks. Usually they aro narrow and nearly always they contrast with frock or suit in colour. Tockets may not always lie inverted, but they all have something about them that is a little different. They may be rounded with perhaps three small impressed pleats held m by an inch-wide top band, or they may have a single inverted box-pleat in the centre. Tuckings and pleats of every sort lend them interest and variety. Even embroidery of a peasant nature in gay colours gives extra piquancy. Plaid and Plain Together Plaid and plain materials arc worked together with great originality and ingenuity. 1 have tokj you about plainbacked plaid jackets before. Now we have plaid jackets with plain sleeves, or embroidered cardigans with plain ribbed sleeves Another choice is a plain ribbed jacket or cardigan with sleeves made of a striped material. Pin-stripes promise to bo as popular in our coming spring as they were last year. For your autumn weather they are perfect. Navy flannel pin-striped in light grey or a lovely new dark green flannel with a white pin-stripe aro extra good for plain tailleurs. Mv sketches this week illustrate the possibilities of having two suits —one striped or plaid and the other plain. I have drawn the plaid jacket with the plain skirt and vice versa to show how effective the contrast is. Short people, however, who are inclined to be plump must beware of this trick as it is apt

to detract from their height, at the same time adding to the width. The cardigan jacket of the plaid suit, which is made from n light-weight tweed in lovely green and blue colours, has lots of buttons going down the front and is an easy fit. The two patch pockets each have an inverted pleat. The plain navy suit, made from a rather thicker tweed, has eight inverted pockets in this otherwise extremely plain jacket. You will notice that both jackets have widish shoulders and both skirts are straight and trim. Popular Cardigan Jackets Cardigan jackets are the most popular type. Uather longer than last season, they lit well to the figure, yet lack the conscious seamed fitting of last .spring. Shoulders are always on the wide side, but never have pleats to achieve this width. Pads are placed on the shoulders and the sleeve itself does not obtrude beyond the padding. That is to say, the coat bodice is cut with a longer shoulder seam. Heather wink is a colour which has been struggling for popularity few some time and it looks as if at last it Anil really come out 011 top. Tweed coats are quite enchanting. They are a lovely colour, the shade of the first pink tulips. Nearly all are collarless with squarish shoulders and slim, straight-fitting skirts. Waists are inclined to be smaller and higher and are everywhere extremely well defined. Another London display shows camel hair coats in every improbable colour—cherry, emerald and gold—cut in the -traditional manner with double-seamed ruglan sleeves, swagger backs that have an open lly pleat, and large patch pockets. It looks as if the springtime countryside will be brimful of gaiety. Evening clothes on display are the most romantic I have yet seen. Net and chiffon, tulle and marquisette are draped, swathed and gathered in enormous bouffant skirts. Floral trimmings are not only caught on shoulder and corsage, but trail around the skirt hems and bunch together at the slender waists of these frocks. There are wispy scarves and lovely jewels. A pair of evening gloves in rubv red reach almost to the shoulders where they are held in place by ribbon bows. Another ribbon how ties right 011 the throat to fasten a wide, coloured bead choker. It looks as if we are going to have more midnight madness ana more daytime brilliance than ever before