A FEW WEEKS HENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 17

A FEW WEEKS HENCE

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

THE USEFUL COAT DRESS

You know how one gets attached to a certain winter dress and hates to discard it when summer comes? Just such a dress is the currentlyattractive coat dress that has all the style features of a winter frock interpreted into the more seasonable cool fabrics.

In lightest-weight angora for the present or linen for a few weeks hence, you'll find that the coat dress is an ideal garment for wearing on so many occasions. Pastels should be your colour choice and worn with a soft angora felt in lolly-pop tones the effect can be uncommonly delectable. The outfit sketched is of dove grey with a Puckish felt hat to tone exactly. The buttons and belt of the frock are of brown leather. THE MILLINERS' ART. Coat frocks are also bound to be seen in cool black with belt and stud buttons of silver or gilded kid. With this in mind, milliners are showing a lot of anthracite hats as well as those in pretty pastels. The hats worn well back on the head are the ones. Just see them in lustrous straws decked as they are, in the new way, with_ fine misty gauze in place of veiling. And the debonair types of costume jewellery there are to complete your brand-new' outfits. Large clips and pins emulate the Victorian in huge jewelled flower shapes. Perhaps you will wear a real amethyst pansy at your throat. Or maybe it will be a pair of circular garnet ear-clips which will take your fancy.

Bracelets go the old-fashioned way, too, in large massive settings and mixtures of real and semi-precious gems in the one piece. These are worn with even quite sportsy clothes. Jewelled regimental brooches will deck many a feminine lapel. But one is not enough! A London style leader has a trio of diamond-set XR.A.F. wings ranged - in

formation on the lapel of her chalkstriped coat dress.

SEVERITY GIVEN THE LIE. This brings us to another fashion point, the vogue for dresses of chalk jor pin-striped flannels and linens. 1 Often their rather masculine severity is given the lie with a wide neckline ruffle or a very feminine white or pastel felt hat. Many is the frock with a ruff. The ways they are shown are numerous, but most often the ruff is of fine lawn or organdie set in a low V neckline or to cuff elbow-length sleeves. These are not only on day dresses, but also attractive for evening wear, on house coats, and even on play suits. ! M.R. i