THE FUTURE OF THE GAPE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 6

THE FUTURE OF THE GAPE.

The cape still continues to be popular, and the shop Ivindows on the Boulevard Baussman show it, both single and double, with a high rolled black velvet collar. 3Tdr evening wear the cape is delightfully useful, as it can be thrown over any light dress wthout trashing the sleeves.; The latest, how-ever, of these evening wraps arc neither in. taffetas or cloth, but in velvet, and all the #elou>s of the rainbow are brought into requisition for ttye fashionable, opera cldak. I use the word opera advisedly, for the smartest dressing is now seen at the two opera houses. The coloured velvet cape, be it in >iue, cerise, or buttercup yellow, has a lining of satin in exactly the same shade. Only the Black Velvet Cape is Lined with White. It is said that the casinos in the fashionable watering '* places will see the black velvet cape reaching some distance below the knees, worn over thin white dresses' ai all descriptions. - The open collar that everybody is wearing necessitates some sort of covering for the throat in windy weather. • \ The Feather Boa has Once More All Our Suffrages. We see it not only in black, white, and grey; but in all the light shades of pink, and again in a mixture of green and black, mauve and black, yellow and black, that may or may not take the public fancy. These boas are not only worn as a covering for the throat, finished with a, black ribbon bow, but are made sufficiently long to wind about the figure and be tied loosely at the back below the waist. Every woman wears her boa according to her taste and figure, and often gives character to a> black or white taffetas costume that would otherwise pas:-: unnoticed. in point of fashion there is, as everybody knows, nothing absolute this year. Everybody dresses according to her taste. There is this Season a Passion for Buttons. The tight-fitting satin bodice started this craze, as the fastening could not be made with anything but buttons ::n<l buttonholes. To-day, therefore, there is not a ;atin or taffetas costume that leaves the workshops of the Rue de la Paix dressmakers without a row vf. buttons either in front or at the back of the bodice. Even the skirts have the appearance of being buttoned, although in reality the little balls of black and white passementerie are sewn to a narrow braid that is attached invisibly spoil the skirt, between the two widths i;f the front seam.