THE CAVALIER CLOAK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 141, 17 February 1915, Page 2

THE CAVALIER CLOAK.

The cavalier cloak has taken the world by storm. It is made of ai sorts of materials, but they must be soft in order to have the right folds. A detail of importance is the cross brace to hold, for the garment itself is worn in a negative manner, sometimes with one side flaring back. Those brace's may be manoeuvred in one with the garment. Wo may take a taffeta gown with such a cloak —the taffeta being black and used for cape, bodice and tunic, latter long with full sides. This is over a narrow skirt of Bayadere striped silk, in which green, purple, cerise, am! .navy, divided by lines of black, y.ve life. Then the cape is lined throughout with green satin, and this shows with every movement. Of course the cross strapping hides most of the bodice. Still, there is Just shown the frill of Ihe A' opening’, and the cuffs sympathise. A feature of the cloak is a capuchin collar, apropos of which an oversea writer says:—“These collars sometimes resolve into regular hoods and emphasise the fact that the cape hails from Spain. ” 1 expect that nearly oevrything, specialy nice, hails from many places, an etcetera from this one, another from tliat, and so on. As n matter rf fact the cross brace has been taken from the Russian. A popular uniform with “three year troops’’ is a blouse with two pieces crossed in the form of ! St. Andrew’s Cross and buttoned at he points, one against each shoulder, •xtrerne end, and one againsi each side .’rout at waist.