THE WHEEL OF FASHION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 345, 28 January 1937, Page 2

THE WHEEL OF FASHION

STRANGE REVOLUTIONS New Vogues and Materials In London. London, January 4. How strange the revolutions of the wheel of fashion are. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, and sometimes it revolves with unexpected rapidity. Take the vogue of the coatee as worn in the evening. A few years ago no one dreamt of going out at night without a coatee, generally of velvet in some bright shade. After a while the coatee disappeared and the cape was all-prevailing. Capes, or rather capelets—for they were never long ones —had taken the place of the coatee, and they were made of diaphanous materials, of feathers, or of velvet. To-day the coatee has appeared suddenly, though in a different form. Now it is in fact a jacket, rather close-fitting as a rule, and has a decided, basque or skirt to it. Sleeves too, are of importance. They are elbow-length often, or even shorter. Whether they reach to the wrist or not, they must have the impressive fullness at the top. All of which detail is very interesting and attractive.

For All Ag/ss. Like its predecessor, the coatee, the evening jacket is worn by the young and the not so young, and differs but little in style for either. The main thing noticed is that the older women choose flowered or patterned materials for tlieir jackets, while girls go in for bright, plaincoloured materials. Lady (Austen) Chamberlain was recently seen wearing a jacket which reached almost to her knees. It was made in black, gaily patterned in red and green, close-fitting to the waist, whence it flow; d out. An al most identical one was worn. the same night by the Countess of Bective. On the other hand. Lady Chamberlain’s daughter, Mrs Terence Maxwell, had one of familiar cut, but made of plain poppy red crepe. This had short puffed sleeves. Big puffed sleeves with silver motifs on them were a striking feature of the peacock-blue satin jacket worn by Viscountess Elveden, who, to make almost an Oxford and Cambridge colour scheme, wore it with a skirt of light blue. Miss Jennifer Fry also' sported a blue jacket at this party, and hers was treated to a lollipop striped sash. Narrow ribbons of the same design was made into little bows worn each side of her dark hair. Some women who wear coatees in the evenings do not favour the actual basque. The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava has a jacket on straighter lines made to match her dress of black organdie dotted all over with graduated sliver spots, and Christine Viscountess Churchill has a coatee of narrowly tucked white georgette, matching her dress.