JACKETS AND BLOUSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 11

JACKETS AND BLOUSES.

The mid-season collections show a new evening silhouette, composed of long, clinging gowns with jaunty little flaring jackets which just reach the bust line, says a London fashion commentator. These jackets are sometimes used with good effect, also on daytime dresses, when they are generally in some bright colour contrast, as when a street length dress of fine black woollen jersey is worn with a tiny bolero of bright green. But/ the most successful have been in stiffened net or wide-patterned lace. In a season when the demand is for a defined bust line and very low decolletage. there is a grace and softness alwut these little jackets which are becoming to all figures.

Many of the new tunics and overblouses both for day and evening wear are wrist-length and moulded close to the figure on tailored lines, or shaped bv shirrings and horizontal bandings. With these go pleated skirts which have an attractive swaying movement below the tunic. Many of these skirts are in large, unpreseed pleats, with insot bands of smaller flat pressed pleats. In some the pleating is concentrated to back or sides,' and gathers, where used, are kept with as little bulk as possible, while still allowing the same wide flaring movement. Hand-knitted jumpers are also apnearing in the new wrist-length. In y are cut high to the neck, with bust

line defined by soft gaugings and drapings. They are to be worn with suits which have jackets of the same wristlength, fitted to the figure on tailored lines, or with fullness concentrated in. the back Tuck-in shirts and blouses are to be worn with skirts which are raised above the waist on corselet lines.