Clothes For When The Weather Is Capricious

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 10

Clothes For When The Weather Is Capricious

MOW that the weather is socapricious one should have frocks which will be useful whether the sun .should prove unseasonably hot or unexpectedly chilling breezes lower the temperature. Between seasons’ points which also should be borne in mind for the winter include: Flared skirts adopted by the young and slim—most successful in the featherweight tweeds. Fullness at the shoulders is another point to be remembered, and the extnyagant use of fur, if possible, is a feature of the coming season. Antique brooches are used as fastenings for chokers, whether of cloth or fur. Suits of modified severity are always useful additions to any collection of clothes, however small, and they are ideal between seasons’ garments. The waist is more noticeable this season, and the shoulders padded, but there is also the straight swagger type of coat in the lighter tweeds such as shepherd’s plaid. 1 Fascinating Trimmings Trimmings are fascinating. Lines of gold kid, for instance, put at quarterinch intervals round a loose sleeve and the waist of a jacketed frock, achieve distinction. Belts may lift an entire ensemble. No black could remain deadly with a belt of green nnd red cellophane. Beading and embroidery are other means of making black a little gayer and no less distinctive. Lace stitches, needle-run on black, are most effective. Trim a woollen coat with sealskin m two strips down the front, and have a stand-up collar made, and you will give new life to a lightweight coat. A plain Angora frock of light green, with a sash of the same material, is neither winter nor autumn, and with a three-quarter coat of the same green, checked with, red, it is distinctly autumn. A jerkin of any lightweight skin is an effective addition to any woollen frock. A New Trick A now trick is to embroider black novelty weave woollens with metal leaves of tiny dimensions. In gold they are particularly effective. Matching accessory sets are most useful foi transforming the informal to the more formal, and those may be obtained in most colours which will contrast with black.

The top notes of any seasonal symphony are hats, whether they are the gay, conical type, caught down and twisted about the ear, or just wisps of felt designed for special coiffures, or a swirl of velvet that looks like the shell of a snail, or the felt beret for the young which curves oft" the face, and is worn with an eye-veil to the tip of the nose.