CAPE CONCEIT

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 19

CAPE CONCEIT

Deprive As Well lif^. Useful The ensemble plays an increasingly important part m sports and street wear, and also offers a solution of the, problem of how to be both suitably and. elegantly gowned for winter afternoons. Tpa parties require a certain dressing- up to, and yet "winter"" Weather forbids flimsy f rocking. . PAPBS are decorative as well as useful and weatherproof. This fashion of the related dress and wrap follows the general trend of winter fashions towards : formality, with the added attraction/ of such softening notes as jabots, flared skirts, pleatings, and decorative stitching. Sometimes the wrap appears m hiplength version, and sometimes it merely lends its outlines to a. coat, but frequently it is {seen m all its glory of full-length, style, with a crossover tiecollar — -Tike a scarf, the ends of which fall down the back. Silk arid wool combined make excellent capes for the cold days, with a frock of- the same material m contrasting or blending colors beneath. ( For warmers days an all silk ensemble, with .frock of printed silk and cape of plain material trimmed with) the printed silk, is a good scheme. Navy and beige, with an occasional black, are the colors chosen for the formal ensemble, for . autumn and winter wear. The diffi- . culty With black is that it requires very severe .treatment as to cut, and very careful wearing as well. ■ When the top coat is still clung to, variety is obtained by having it cut very loosely and leaving it to hang ■ open m front over the frock. ■ In this manner, a certain cape-like effect is obtained though the garment has sleeves, and, perhaps, a patch pocket.