FASHION BREEZES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 8

FASHION BREEZES

IDEAS FOR THE AUTUMN. A triple suit for autumn has a jacket with slant-wise pockets, a gored skirt, and a matching interlined topcoat, with new fullness under the sleeves. Tiny stirrups wrapped together in racing style, with supple calf form the latest buckles on suede belts, backed with grosgrain ribbon. For the first cool days choose a lightweight wool frock, with a little turndown collar, finely pleated yoke, and three-quarter sleeves, with that “push-ed-up” look. Piquet shows chemise lines in a coat of Hollander-dyed Hudson seal and beige wool, made with many, many pleats, falling from the yokeline. Play with colour and place a butterfly blue scarf on a dinner dress of forest green crepe. With studied simplicity and accent on contours, Alix drapes an afternoon frock of canard-green sidefulness of the skirt flowing from a narrow bowknot just under the heart. Schiaparelli tops a sheath of violet crepe, with a naive mauve satin bolero and yellow kerchief, the two embroidered in rose, yellow and green. The all important “slim centre” is achieved by a cleverly cut bodice in a Picasso blue frock, with graceful bracelet length sleeves .and finished with massive flower clips. A pretty combination for autumn dusks is black, with pink—a pale pink velvet yoke dips to a V on a simple black wool dress, and pink feathers spring from a black felt hat, with pink doeskin gloves to match. Against the background of a black crepe dress, with a pleated square yoke, wear a black felt hat misted with a veil, and a snake-link gold metal necklace. The locket and chain of more sentimental eras will hang around tanned modern throats this winter. Choose one of antique English design in silver metal, and wear it with a long-sleeved dinner dress. Chanel’s answer to what to wear on upswept hair is a cluster of bright taffeta ribbons bunched together. Over a stream of gold lame Patou, puts an austere eggplant wool evening coat, with sleek, flat godets and a monastic collar. New notes at the Paris shows: Mainbocher’s silver fox scarf attached to a hat: Molyneux astrakhan hood and violets on hat and lapels, and Eskimo hood over a tiny turquoise pillbox. The rising star among fur is lynx, which Schiaparelli uses to make a loose, boxy coat to wear over a black frock. A perennial flatterer is velveteen, which is used to make an American model short-sleeved afternoon frock, with a high V neckline, with two huge roses.