THE NEW SPORTS COAT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19008, 2 November 1923, Page 10

THE NEW SPORTS COAT.

The future development of the short coat is to be a feature of the wraps this summer. Over Slimmer 1 rocks such a coat is frequently a necessity, and the material coat scorns to he creeping into the place of the imtch-loved and long-worn woollen sports coats. Woollen coals and jumpers still survive in wonderful striped and striped pattern effects. Hie now short coat should'match nothing and go with everything. Cretonne is making a particularly suitable reappearance. In cretonne there is a wide choice of pattern? and a variety of colours, and also it i? more or less sunproof and will stand almost any amount of laundering. Printed crepe, too. can he used for these slip-on coats; it is thinner than cretonne, and in order to get the necessary warmth, it should ho quilted. The sketch on this page shows a quilted coat in this material patterned all over in bright greens, reds and bines; it is fastened into an ornamental ivory button painted in colours to match the pattern blven newer is the reversible cretonne coat. Keversible. because while the outside may be made of a gailv patterned cretonne, say, in shade? of mauve and pink, the lining is of | lain pink cretonne, and the coat may be worn inside out. When the coat is made of plain material, it needs to lie embroidered all over —in a contrasting colour--rather after (ho fashion of a Turkish towel. The style in which the coat is made is of importance, as a rule they should he blotted into a low band encompassing the bins lightly. Then a tnnirdowu collar, with rovers, which can be fastened closely round the nock, and sleeves which are long, sometime? straight and sometimes slightly bell shaped. The president of the Hairdressing Exhibition! which was to have been opened in London this week, says that shingling is the latest style of hairdressing among fashionable women, who are_ tired of the bobbed fashion. Shingled hair is cut short at the back like a man’s. The front hair remain? long, and is brushed over to ,th.back. A snecial comb is worn round the back of the head, and the hair on the sides is loft long so that it covers the ears. The October issim of Everybody 1 ? Journal contains, among other things, a nor-worthy at count of an interview with Irene Vanbrugh. the famous actress, who is deliirhl-i-n- Au-traban andic-es in “Air Pim Passes Dy.” Miss A'anhrugh tolls the s|!-rv of he- vise to fame and what it entailed, and of the things she loves to ( ]o A nurse under "Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war has just reaeberl her 101st birthday in the workhouse at Whiaton, Lancashire.