WOOL FASHIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23405, 22 July 1939, Page 23

WOOL FASHIONS

LATEST MATERIALS DAY AND EVENING WEAR STRIPES LOSE POPULARITY [from our own correspondent] LONDON, June 20

Advance autumn and winter coats are. being cut with flared circular skirts, small neat waistlines and snug bodices, while large cloth collars and the lavish use of quilting often replaces fur. When there is fur it is flat fur, and worked liko.fabric, for sleeves, plastrons and gilet effects. New woollens include very thick wool plush, thick soft blanket fabric, velours-de-laino and heavy monotone tweeds for coats, Thick,. firm wool jersey for sports tailleurs can be pleated like an ordinary woollen. Thin fine wool crepe for day drosses include duvetyn, thin wool jersey and oldfashioned wool serge. Black broadcloth trimmed with black velveteen will be used for afternoon suits and coats. Plaids are still very popular, but stripes have been ousted.

New Season's Colours Newest among autumn colours comes the deep, rich reddish brown, then grey, followed by deep blackish cypressgrcon, and very dark purplish blue. No moro cyclamen or magenta will bo seen in smart places. The pink that replaces them, especially in the evening, is an orangy. pink rather than a mauvish one —coral, azalea, sunset. A dash of scarlet is noticeable in every singlo collection,, usually in the form of a jacket or topcoat, worn over black town ,clothes or white resort dresses. Ifor golf and bicycling there are new ''harem" skirts, that look like voluminous plus-fours, but are really skirts cut much flared,, and then dooped lender and attached to wide bands around tho legs "just below tho knees. '■ New wrist-length straight jackets, neither fitted nor flared, aro shown with" straight, tight skirts that have three rippled bias ruffles across _ the front only- Tho smartest jacket is in brown woollen over a navy woollen dress. . /

All the French designers are preparing smart clothes for all occasions in some kind of woollen fabric. Thin black wool crepe day dresses trimmed with gold paillettes and gold braid bolts are simple, wearable and very smart. Wool jersey is being shown for tailored shirts with tweed suits. Wool broadcloth makes an effectivo dinner dress, shortsleeved, with crystal bead drops embroidered inside tho front of tlio bolero top, and a little hip-length tailored capo. Quilting and Stitching

An excellent advance autumn coat in thick soft wool plush, velours-de-laino, or heavy monotone _ tweed is elaborately worked with Italian padded quilting. Ono in deep reddish earthbrown (called "Terreau") tweed, is quilted from shoulder to hem. Fine lines of machine stitching that looks liko printed patterns aro used for allover Paisley patterns in black on pastel flannel jackets, or in colours on a little pink flannel evening bolero. A navy blue wool tullofor an afternoon dress has pleated skirt and red belt. Navy and white pin-checked thin wool flannel is used' for a' full gathered peasant skirt and bolero jacket, with a white dilet blouso.