WOMAN'S REALM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 December 1913, Page 2

WOMAN'S REALM.

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SOCIAL NEWS AND FASHIONS.

Adjutant Lumsden, of Wellington, is visiting her sfsfcer and Mrs Morris, of Homebush, Masterton.

Mis<s Mackerras left Wellington for the VViurarapa on Saturday last.

Mrs Gawith and Miss Alison Gawith, of Masterton ,are speeding a fuvv clays in Wellington.

,The marriage of Miss Dorothy Pirani, of Feilciing, to Mr E. L. Perry will take place early iu the new year.

Mrs J. Buchanan (Masterton) has been visiting Wellington.

Mr and Mrs Logan, Lansdowne, went to Wellington yesterday to be present at the wedding to-day of Mr Logan's sister, Miss Daisy Logan, to Mr Bowden-Sirtith.

Mr and Mrs Harley ""Evans, of Tokomaru Bay, are on a visit to Masterton, and are staying with Mrs Frank Evans, Lansdowne.

A recent engagement announced is that of Commander Wilfrid Montagu Bi •uce, R.N.R.,, of the P. and, 0. Company and of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition (brother of Lady Scott) to 1 Miss Dorothy Boot, elder daughter of Sir Jesse an<l Lady Boot. The name of "Boot" is now a household one in England, chiefly on account of the libraries, in every important centre, for whose inception he was responsible. Miss Boot has taken a keen interest in many of her mother's social schemes, chiefly for the benefit of the hundreds of girls employed in various departments of the great firm of which Sir Jeese Boot is the head. A group of homes at Wilford, near Nottingham, founded by Sir J. Boot for survivors 9f the Crimea.n War, is known as the Dorothy Boot Homes. Quite close is Clifton Hall, th 6 residence of Colonel Sir Harvey'Bruce, cousin of the. "Man ■she is to marry.

different material will be used for this yoke, say striped, with the stripe horizontal if j refit is plain. The blouse that is pleated from the waist is in much favour for all kinds of materials, particularly net. This is eitner black or matched to the costume if the latter is not too light a colour. A short sleeveless blouse in black net is fashionable with light dresses. Speaking of coats, a Paris writer says: "Among the new coats made for smart tailleurs in moire, satin, meteor and other goods of the crepe order, many come pretty near to half-lengths behind, but instead of being cut off straight or in points, they are merely rounded in a gentle curve. Frequently th© fronts are narrow so as to show a vest of another material providing the collar turning down over the coat. Frequently, too, the coat has a high waist seam, and the vest has a narrow belt fastened over it with a fency buckle. Novelties are shown m ' the shape of half-long coats with back panels to which their side?; are drap•ed in godet pleats. Those are cut with pointed fronts "falling lower than the panel, but sloped tip so as to be much shorter at the sides. A model of this sort has the back panel braided as high as the shoulder blades and a long vest to correspond. Another new and fanciful style of coat lias the back slightly shirred on the shoulders and again at its base into short bancLs cut in one with the fronts, leaving a plain eenture panel. You may see this in combination with a skirt shirred at the back, the fullness held, in by a foot-band, the whole carried out in crepe de chine of a greenish mustard tone. Tail coats are certainly among the most fashionable for the nresent, but they wear a very different appearance with turned down collars, the only reminiscence of the Directoire style being ihe high waist. They are almost best described as boleros prolonged by tails at the back."