Fashion and Things Feminine.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 87, 24 September 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

Fashion and Things Feminine.

By iUA M£LL£R - . Copyright.

THE NEW SLEEVELESS COATEE

Women are discussing ike new fashions with considerable interest, and lino. mii"h to praise among the pretty new blouses and short coats. These latter are a drastic flange from the leng coats with hip b.vits that have been worn during the winter, and are, perhaps, all the more welcome for that. Skirts offer a good deal of choice. Some are pit,.ted, come are plain, and u'l are wider at the foot than the ekirts (ft yesterday. But the extra width is sometimes cunningly concealed by inserted panels in front or at the sides — the skirt illustrated, for instance, has a front panel at tho foot that allo»Vtj plenty of spiing. Superfluous fullnci-s that is cumbersome is regrettable, but the extra width allowed to skirts is p'easing enough when not carried to < >tremes.

Especially, must be guarded against an inclination on the part of those who would flaunt a new fashion aggressively, to wear too short a hkirt, for rlthough. granted, the smartness of the new fashions in *kirts depends to a great extent on shortness, yet there i« in l need to exaggerate a correct fashion. and half an ineh more or less in the length of a skirt makes an astonishing diffeicnob to the general appearance of the wearer of the garment. One of iho new fashions about whi-b

No. 1866 ("2 Patterns)

there can surely be no variance of opinion, is tlie sleeveless pinafore coatee or lodice. This is winning unanimous appioval. and, in truth, is a fascinating style thii merits enoouiugement. It is u-ed a great dea 1 with dresses of mixed materials, cloth and wooi-brwk satin or cotton-poplin being a. favourite mode. Tli? 6le <ve!ess coat-op is clipped over a i-iinple one-piece frock and is helted at the waist with wid6 satin-ribbon or wiih pif.ee s lu. One of these pretty new contee.s is illustrated, and is s-> simple to make up that every girl wh> is her own dressmaker should keep a pattern of the kind by Iter. The quantity of 16-inch mate'ial re<iuired for a pin'.fnre coatee, as sketched, is i.wo y.irds. This should be folded in ha'f 'engthwisc and the three pieces of I ,he paper pattern, representing half the back and half the wont, f.nd the collar should be laid on it as indicated by the diagram, the straight edges of hack and front being laid to the fold. The coatee is seamed at the sides, and on the right shoulder, but there is no seam back or front. 'I lie left shoulder should be fastened invisi. bly with press-stud fast mors. The foliar should be lined with its own material, and the pattern, therefore, shoud be cut out in tJiipliente.

SOME FASHIONABLE ODDMENTS

Tt is the little things of dress ihat make the irre't < ffccl. and of the little tilings that tell in to-day's l'nshions are

ol net, lace or chiffon, and to these I indices it is advisable thai short sleeves 1:1 under-arm pieces should be added. Among the group of oddments -sketched are two under-bodices that wit' be found very good patterns and suitable o supporting transparent Mores. Uqdice So. 7 is cut to a point at the waist and at the neck, and is fitted with darts. Short sleeus are added and an embroidered edging. Above it is a .small back view.

Bodice No. $, suitable for eveniii" wear, is cut with prolonged under-arm p:eces, and is held r.p with shoulderstraps and gathered at the waist. Like 'he other bodice, it fastens at the back (see small back view). At] tlie top of group, to the left, is fetched a plaid silk vest and roll-over collar, forming a square shape at the back (Xo. 1). and in the centre of gioup (No. o) is another vest, intended for white silk-moire or poplin, cut with revers and a- high collar, beneath which is parsed, after a pretty fashion of the moment, a black velvet-ribbon arranged in a bow in front. Both these viMs are buttoned in front, and might be worn in change with an open-front-ed coat. fiie plaid vest, having no back, might be secured to a coat with j'Kss snids. The moire vest is possessed of a back, united to the front at the vn*t with an elastic or a ribbon. In Xos. 2 and 3 are suggested two smarti >'i!k different in character, to be worn, again, v."ith openironted coats. The one. of fancy material, is made with a roll-collar and .short b;iM|Uc (to be worn outside the waist of the skirt), tho other has a high collar trimming the back of the neck, and is finished at the waist with a wide belt of its own material. These waistcoats might be copied in taffetas, ioulard or bengal in e or in' cotton matdiaK > uch as pique, cotton-pop in, or (otton corduroy. In Xn. 4 is a ve-it, intended to be made of finely-pleated muslin and pro a ided with a lucked collar-band, trimmed, like the vest, with tiny buttons along the centre. The back of the vest is of plain muslin and fastens with button? and buttonholes, and a ribbon unites the back and front- of the vest at the waist.

Sketch No. 6 represents a fashionable deep belt, made of silk or satin, nicked on to whalebones.