Feminine Trend in Winter Coats

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 17

Feminine Trend in Winter Coats

The season’s styles shown in the annual fashion opening of the local shops will be reflected in coats that strike a note that will make this fashion event long to be remembered. As in all other modes of the moment, the coat style this year charmingly responds to the feminine mood. Boyishness is decidedly out of the picture and womanliness calls for the spotlight. The severely tailored lapel has given way to soft folds, or ties, or drapes. The notched collar of yesteryear is superseded by the scarf which flatteringly frames the face, and when fur is used it is of the soft, long-haired variety in harmony with the fabrics fashion decrees this season. The fluent lines of the cape add their charm to many of the coats of the season and appear In many forms.

In some models it is difficult to determine which is scarf and which is cape. In many instances the scarf broadens out to cane proportions and frequently the half-rape lias the appearance of a wide scarf. A capricious mode and therefore feminine. Even the topcoats are decidedly of the feminine trend. Although the correct materials are those that one usually associates with men’s coatings—tweeds, herringbones and homespuns—the weaves are unusually soft and light of weight, falling in graceful lines and adapting themselves splendidly to the clever manipulation so fashionable just now—visible intricate tucks, quaint gathers and gracious folds. In many instances, too, the colours are as vague as the proverbially “womanly woman.” Tender greens, misty as a woodland dawning, soft brown wood shades and elusive grays have come into their own. In summing up the new coat mode only two words are needed—“flatteringly feminine.”