ales Fashionable ers have been autumn fashions. Agents Jand buyers for Canada and the United Stales have been spending hours studying dress styles for overseas customers. Here is a brief summary fof the now fashions Shorter skirts for the daytime. *We must save material" the designers so hem lines are 17 18 inches above the ground—bout 2 inches shorter than a year Slick Alling jackets for suits with a well defined waist line, big pockets—four is the ordinary ale Towance on a coat. Jackets come about 4 inches below the hipbone.
(3) Wrap coats very very loose with a- full back, "are sometimes elted, oF close Ailing to the waist and flare outwards at the hem, (4) Fur being on the "luxury list, its use as a trimming Is strictly rationed, The majority of wrap! coats are plain and collartess; some ave a shallow fur collar, and a narrow band of fur outlining the pockets. British tweeds and wool Tens are star tums. An agency for these materials has been opened in New York.
English women this winter will have ample opportunities of proving that they can wear tweeds. and tailor. wades more successfully than anyone else, Economy has produced the "Country into Town Suits"—a plain suit for the countly, with a second! coat, sometimes fur-trimmed, "which transforms a country sult into a London outfit. Blouses modelled on "battle dress" lines are shown with tweed sults, Practical tailored tweed Jdresses to wear under fur coats are {rimmed with soutache braid on collars and pockets; with petit point embroidery in bright coloured wools, Jor with bead embroidery of the ki that Vielorian great-aunts worked as covers for cushions and stools many' many years ago.
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