The French have a most clever way of making a coat more charming by designing a hat of the same materials. A costume for motoring from a famous Parisian house, represents the newest style in coats and illustrates the tendency to be both cape and coat at once. Coats of this type are half wrapped! about the figure, and the sleeves are vague affairs, often amounting to no more than a great cuff attached to the armhole. Embroidery follows the lines of the seams or makes a design on the skirt or sleeves of the coat. Two wraps for motoring, from the same French designers, have little straight standing-up collars that make no attempt to fit closely around the neck.
The model of the wrap described above is wonderfully luxurious: looking. The material is soft velour in dark blue, and it has contrasting bands of the same material in pale gray. Gray also lines the big hood that is weighted with a tassel of the same shade im the back.
The becoming close turban to wear with this wrap is made of velour in blue and gray, gray for the top. with blue folded softly around it, With this sort of hat a veil is not necessity, though al~
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