It may seem a bit insulting to mention anything like a coat this sultry weather, but remember if you please, that there are less favoured spots where suits are de rigour, also more favoured places where the climate makes suits the normal unit of costume. And at any rate, suits we must have. Fashion says so, custom says 80, and there are so many thin materials here to choose from that suits need not be disagreeably warm and heavy.
The summer suit, like the spring costume, is much looser than tha tailored models we have been used to. Often it is cut on the lines of the paletot, with a standing collar often with Russian embroideries on collar and cuffs, Again braiding is often used and by decorations and softness of line the harsh, stiff effect which suits too often connoted is gone.
Its skirts are as straight and narrow as the path of virtue and its modest length clears the ground by eight or 10 inches. You may order your jacket straight, loose and hip-length, with flaring sleeves, or short and straight, with a belt at the hips. One charming outfit was made from blue crepe satin, lined and piped -with old blue crepe romain, with collar, revers, cuffs and waistcoat of white embroidered in old blue and silver lace. Black crepe marocain. makes up modishly into a paletot model, trimmed with white braid or silver lace. Some of the semi-paletot jackets instead of flaring out at the waist, button loosely over the hips, giving a low belted effect.
With these flaring jackets the fairly, small hat is most becoming, but some sort of brim is usually seen, even if this rolls off the face on the side, just giving a bit of shade for the eyes. Straw is back in its old place, and one of Maria Guy's most fetching models is ideally adapted to suit-wear, with its rounded brim of black picot, raking out over the eyes, and trimmed only with a band of black grosgrain ribbon, drawn simply about the middle of the crown and tied behind in a gigantic bow which makes a piquant background for a youthful face.
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