CHAT FROM PARIS

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21037, 13 February 1940, Page 3

CHAT FROM PARIS

THE INTO-AUTUMN COAT Suits, as well as coats, are to follow the penchant for variety both in line and colour. It is agreed also that they shall take on length with the briefer days though retaining the alert charm of the midsummer fashions. The silhouette will retain its slender youthfulness in wasp waist and broadened jaunty shoulder, and, apparently, we will continue to experiment with shirring and gathers that dispose of fullness again in the most peremptory manner. In suit fashions the simplest are jacketed in materials that contrast check with plain or else reversed tonings. One model is designed in the popular mauve and coral. The skirt is plain with utterly straight flare and central seaming back and front. The jacket is cut with tiny rounded and flat neck yoke into which a cravat can be tucked, and buttoned down the front to rounded corners. This type of coat is among the briefest displayed and has rounded shallow pockets set just below waist level, following the line. The cut of bodice is severely trim and fitted. Sleeves are inserted with fullness pleated into peak. The Longer Jacket A longer jacket length is allowed in a design that features spreading and rounded revers that come together centrally with heart-shape effect. Shoulders in this case, though wide, preserve the straight squared line. Pockets are deeper and possess crescent-shaped flaps that button. The material chosen is plain grape blue with the original accent of a narrow edge of hand-knitting outlining both collar and pockets. Simple and definitely attractive is a blue angora coat with unusually roomy sleeves. Fullness is simply gathered in at shoulder, but all billows to low on the forearm, to a shaped and cuffless wrist. This is one of the few belted models, is collarless, and depends for its decoration on a narrow line of steel grey braid curved wing-like on the bodice and falling straight to hem. A grey wool coat which would look equally interesting in black has double shirring at shoulders and conveniently placed gathers at bust line. Seams are arranged to give the jacket effect.