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With the holidays over. fashion a ngain, trying out new ideas, we are getting a pre-view of the 1927 Summer mode.

Sport Things Claim Our Attention-Travel Things Interest-We Visi za New Mode.

la held responsible for the increas-sembles from which to make your ingly large number of sleeveless choice. This is a welcome, bit of jackets that are being featured news to the woman who finds the The part that this type of jacket | assembling of costumes a plessurs, plays in the new mode is most im-, and-of course, an economy. portant..

The chief interest centres in sports things, for this is the type of attire, that belongs to the out-of- Goers. And, of course, there must be travel apparel suitable to voyage Home vin Canada or the Suez Canal For the stay-at-home there is interest in every provision made for others, for these, prepara- tions cast shadows on their own prospective purchases.

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finish out the season, in the even ing gown that you choose for the same purpose, in the little day dress that you find you must have. Everywhere there are tendencies, leading away from the established mode of the Winter season toward the mode in the thaking that Sum- mer will bring,

One interesting fashion is the Yokes, which have been hyly now ensemble made up of four appearing in a modest way, all pieces-skirt, jumper; sleeveless jac- Winter, are quite boid and open inket or cardigan and a long coat. It their attack on the new models for je quite clever to match the coat the Summer. They are deep, and

and jumper-you have been match- extend from the neck well down in Ing coat and skirt too long, fashion back or front or both, and occa-

thinks. One' is instantly impressed sionally down the sleeves. They by the value of this newest an hint of a little longer skirt-but semble when it comes to instilling that has been hinted before. Neck variety into the wardrobe. There lines continue varied, but the square

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bloused over the tight hipline, but the neckline is different. The belt is made of two-colour ribbon and the sleeve bands match. This very. different jumper is worn with an all-the-way-round pleated skirt that

carries out the colour harmony with a wide and a narrow stripe just above the hemline.

There are many of the familiar combination, that matches It is timely, of course, to prophesy

skirt and coat fabric. to be seen, a vogue for white, and there are however. There will be thany of many beautiful things being offered the short coat-jumper-skirt ensem- in white materials. It is always bles, the coat, in this instance, be- correct for Summer, so one may ing long-sleeved. The value of the assume its importance. When it comes to colour, there are a very sleeveless jacket lies in its use as a wrap when the coat of the four great many new shades, but the

some is too warpone has prác, most important. item gleaned from this new mode is the use of two, tically, two costumes, and either possibly three shades of a colour the short sleeveless or the long, the idea known as duo-tone ex duo-sleeved coat may be worn. colour effects.

Matching Details Emphasised. In the ensemble made

For travel and general wear."a matching coat and skirt in checked

It achieves a fitted hipline, novelty fabric, and jumper of crepe quite different coat has been select- de Chine, one is impressed by the ed of

clever use of trimming detall width around the hem, and a The fabric of the skirt and cost is bloused effect in back-all by the manipulation of pleats." The same, a two-toned check, the jumper idea is incorporated in the sleeves, matches the lighter tone with exactand the straps at the wrist are of The trimming for the jumper the same width as the belt. Inci consists of squares of the skirt dentally, the lady in the cost. la fabric appliqued on, but the choice wearing the same hat, that she wore is the darker square-thus, carry- ing out a duo-tape effect in both with the checked ensemble suit, but

wearing it very differently. skirt and jumper, “man MARAMIN

A second ensemble uses two shades of a colour, both appearing in the checked novelty wool fabrie that.fashions skirt and, coat and in the jumper or blouses that is worn with it: A third shade is apparent in the narrow piping that trims the coat-and it is matched, in line at

Many New Things Intrigue. One's first logical question is directed toward the silhouette, and after hat toward the details that

Ensemble Is With Us Again. go to make up either the masculine

After a brief vacation, from the or the feminine theme, as the case may be. We are really enjoying Hmelight, the ensemble is staging

of the a return, going, to all kinds. the subtle elaborateness

trouble to make that return popu present mode, and many would be loth to see it replaced by the more lar and effective, The new inter- severe lines that we associate with pretations of it cover the entire types. field from early morning to late the old-fashioned tailored There need be little worry, apcvening, and there are tailored, parently, for the latest presenta-sports, afternoon, and evening an- tions are both intricate in cut and unusual in their details.

Advance showings of fabrics, stress both solid colours and prints, as well as novelty weaves. This is consistent with the very' general theme of variety. One Ands both silk and cotton broadcloths, silk and cotton crepes, satin, as well as crepe de Chine, Mudra's shirting and linens, as well as jersey, flannel, crepella' and kasha cloth.

There is still a decided trond toward the straight line silhouette; In fact, it is a reality, not a trend. Whatever manipulations of mater ial there may be are so cleverly carried out that they do not detract in the slightest from slender linea. Blouses, pleats' and boleros appearį", sashes, belts and draped hiplines are featured, and there are deep kimona sleeves and yokes in some: of the newest cost modelu. Occa- sionally one sees a bit of fullness in back a contrast to flat backs and full fronts.

Blouse. And Bolero Insist, To achieve the popular bloused effect belts are brought into use, and occasionally there is a man pulation of Beams. And darts that bring about the bloused effect. The bolero has not passed from the picture, as so many prophesied, but is more apparent than ever, and

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The Women of To-day.

Women of the various white races, as the result of the open-air Iffe and the almost. Instantaneous and universal adoption of new fashions, have become so alike in

general appearance and type that it is asserted that 12 of them, dressed according to the dictates

of

fashion in the respective capitals of their various countries, would attract no more attention in Regent Street than would 12 city typiste.

The experience of the "Daily Mail's" representative confirmed this statement. He vainly searched the West End for a "foreign-look-- ing woman, and says he must have encountered scores of foreigners in the leading hotels and streets of shopland and Soho, yet he could not Identify one.

An extensively-travelled woman explains. that women now are of one type because a far smaller num- ber than formerly lead sedentary lives, and women are more active, and generally there has been a levelling of methods of living, thua. affacing those racial features that formerly were noticeable.

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least, by the trimming on the blouse, which la carried out in the lighter tone of the skirt material. Carefully placed pleats give a sem- blance of fullness but do not detract from the straight line.

For the active sportswoman, who would have real protection after a brisk game on the tennis courts, there is nothing more practical, or more effective, than a lightweight coat of flannel in blazer stripes such a copt is pictured. It is never

a skirt bf white Bannel or crepe da more effective than when worn with Chine, but it may be worn with a skirt in any one of the colours in- corporeted in the striped pattern. Noto the strictly tailored shirt worn beneath it.

Variation of the Jumper. What detall will do to the fami Har is cleverly Illustrated in the pictured blouse, which is, indeed, s-blouse. Not only is the material

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