The military note which first had a good deal of vogue has now been modified. The new suits will keep the square shoulders, but they are also to be waisted, unless they go to the other extreme of much- back fullness. Coats remind one a little of the long soldier's coat with the fronts buttoned back. They are not as long and the buttoned-back part has a suggestion of small paniers, which also carries on the idea of the pocket. These coats button from the neck to the waist with small buttons and there is sometimes a braided stand-up collar.
For ordinary occasions the suit and the coat together are among the more useful clothes. These often follow military lines, while not being imitative in detail. Suits have the skirt ing green backdrop of growing plants, the shimmering reflections of a pool. all serve to set off the beauty and charm of garden figures. One well-chosen figure placed at the end of a path may give a sense of permanence and continuity to an otherwise aimless garden scheme. Or a wall plaque may be just the touch needed to break up a monotonous expanse of brick or stone.
Harsh concrete bird baths and life-size Victorian iron deer need no longer, in the name of statuary, disfigure otherwise attractive home garden plots. Today any type of figure—from comical little spouting frogs to charming reproductions of mischievous children and smooth simplified madonnas—are available for the owner to choose from for his garden, and at prices to suit his purse, It used to offend the sensitivity of an artist when some one suggested a garden statue to match the colour in the coping of a pool or to fit in a niche a certain size. Now artists are ce-operating with home owners.
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