Besides the evening purposes for which lace is suitable, it is also made to go with suits and coats. Long coats have a skirt to match and a loco top to the skirt, usually linked to it with a wide coloured sash. Suits have lace blouses. These are often elaborate, but they must remain neat and close. There are perhaps little frills of lace and net down the front to give a general fluffy appearance. Sometimes rich thick lace is used ior a shirt with buttons down the front. There are lace waistcoats ending in two points and having brilliant or metal buttons. Colour is often combined with these too, either at the neck or along the edge or with the sash that serves as a Women In the Navy Training the "Wrens"
London, Nov. 2.
Newly commissioned officers and probationer officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service are being helped to absorb the real naval atmosphere for their work by a fortnight's intensive course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
They have taken over the big block of buildings normally occupied by the Naval Staff College. The senior officers normally doing their "lessons" in strategy and tactics in that building are now at work in the school of practical experience. But the naval officers, sub-lieutenants of all branches, and some lieutenants are still studying for examinations in the other buildings of the old royal palace by the Thames, so R.N. and WINS. all meet together at mess in the famous Painted Hall.
The "Wren" officers are being passed through the courses in groups of thirty, half of them already commissioned and in uniform, others on probation and still wearing "civvies" with brassards. Their instruction includes lectures on naval discipline and naval history, hygiene, and control of troops, as well as general administration.
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