YOUR NEW SPRING COAT

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 17 (Supplement)

YOUR NEW SPRING COAT

Pastel Colours are First Choice

Be that as it may, spring clothes are definitely with us and, at the moment, so is the right kind of weather. As, no doubt, you have already noticed, pastels are to be the first colour choice of importance this vear. The English spring was heralded in with collections at the fashion .houses of all that savoured of the sweet and fair in pastel tweeds and fabrics. Navy blue was practically the only springtime shade in the darker gamut but then, that shade is new again with every spring, especially a.s it lends itself so charmingly to the inevitable spring fashion for wearing touches of white in collars, cuffs, and accessories. Touches of white are more than ordinarily sought after this season; we will want them here, we will want them there, we will want them everywhere! A navy blue spring coat is not complete unless it has a white pique collar or is worn

i with a high postilion hat of white » pique. For this reason, too, white , flowers are much to be seen and as lapel posies, lilies-of-the-valley, gar- ■ denias, and snowdrops are much in * evidence. Heavy white fish-net veil--5 ing is obtainable in our shops for ■ trimming up a navy hat to look fresh 1 and new. In navy or brown this same - coarse type of veil would look 1 grahd twisted into a turban or worn r as a snood. 5 Lime green is a pastel of first 3 favour just now as also is lavender, * a fashion quite probably started after r the publication of the news that it * was the ruling colour choice for Lady > jWillingdon, who visited this country ““not long ago. Of the fashion for grey, 1 nothing more need be said since al- »* ready it is to be seen worn by almost 1 every smart woman. Oatmeal is its t newest variation and a very pretty - one too. Combined with royal blue, t oatmeal is a subtle new shade of 1 great restraint and distinction.