WOOLLEN COATS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 510, 18 May 1909, Page 3

WOOLLEN COATS.

'.unexpected fashions have. a way ; of descending on us, .'says'.a Melbourne paper. Without anything adequate; in'the way of warning the-knitted golf: coat/white and comely,'may be. quoted as an instance.. No sooner had it ."arrived" than all. sorts ' of «upplementary . woollen coats sprang.'. sud-denlyiinto-fayour,and:it'is open to question .if anything; .trimmer or. better-looking • than the three-quarter; length blue knitted coat, fitting closely over.the shoulders, coming in at tho .w4iat,,andfinißhed;withj : a:rather full bas'nue:.has been'(Worn for .some , time. The 'crocheted. Kimono blouse is enjoying as high favour indoors as the golf coat is doing in the open. The blouse is: simple enough to make," each: piece being crocheted separately and then, joined'together. Knitted blouses made in .similar.- fashion present far less difficulties, to the worker than do the. onc-pieco"affairs, -with which only the very experienced' need attempt to wrestle. Now that sleeves ; aro so cononendably small, the white knitted coat, made- extra iight,'is a joy to slip on under 'the' elaborate evening coat. .Clothing is the: revorse; of voluminous at present,-,.and' a -wrap of- this sort tlia) i takes up:little room comes as a boon to tno chilly.mortal. :'-,■ ; v