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Show WRAPS HAVE FLOWING LINES; PARIS SENDS SPORTS CLOTHES THE current of the styles in outer garments flows toward graceful lines partly Influenced by the success suc-cess of the cape. This adaptable wrap began its wayward, but charming, charm-ing, career in the smart winter resorts und caused even coats to follow its alluring ways hence the fad for weurlng coats flung about the shoulders shoul-ders with the sleeves hanging loose. Then the cape-coat, combining grace and comfort, began to grow important and now the latest word from stylists tella of cape-coats and dolmans that Hi . 1 ''i 'I I M ; ' 1 ''"'" ' t A V x -- 'it 0 a , A Graceful Summer Wrap. resembie them, with the cape-coat flourishing in all types. . Coats with regulation capes, for summer wear, like the model pictured, are made of rep, flannel, crepe, georgette geor-gette and lame, but in the sheer fabrics fab-rics for warm summer days the cape portion is snorter and more fanciful. Rep and the heavier crepes are the choice for coats that must provide some measure of warmth. The model shown here, if made up in navy blue rep and lined with bright red crepe, or shantung, will prove dashing and useful. In black or gray crepe it will old summer time comes, they seem inclined in-clined to get into sports clothes, morn-in:;. morn-in:;. noon and Might, and summer brings along so many types of these that they are well dressed for almost anything the day may bring. Comparatively Com-paratively few sports clothes are designed de-signed for actual sports wear most of them seem destined for the gallery and for pastimes not at all strenuous. For instance, here are two rather dainty outfits which Paris sends over labeled "Robes de sport" they might be as appropriately called two-piece daytime dresses or even Informal afternoon frocks. Therefore we will discuss sports clothes by leaving out actual sports wear and talking of.Jn-formal of.Jn-formal clothes instead. Pastel colors In flannel, Jersey, kasha or rayon mixtures, or in crepe de chine, might be chosen for either of these frocks and the plaited skirt goes without saying it is taken as a matter of course that a sports dress has a plaited skirt. In the dress at ' the left the jumper is decorated with bands piped with silk in a contrasting color and has an odd shaped belt fas- fcflviy ill! I! ! III 7tu i ili'iiA, ' 1 111 til "s j The Paris Idea of Sports Clothes. iei e almost every purpose for day or evening wear. Everyone who appreciated the charm of last summer's georgette coats will welcome this year's cape coats made of the same exquisite material. ma-terial. They are most useful in black and are made usually with rounded capes of varied lengths, single, double or triple, and sometimes scalloped at the edges. Their only rivals in sheer beauty are those large georgette scarf shawls, made of a square of georgette, surrounded by a . deep border bor-der in black or other contrasting color. For sports wear or travel, tweeds in new weaves and new patterns are the first choice. Perhaps women have come to re-.':ird re-.':ird the summer time itself as a '.lorting event and mere living as a .istlme. Anyway, when the good tened with a buckle. The embroidered medallion in the same color might enclose one's monogram, as an elegant ele-gant finishing touch. For the frock at the right, crepe ue chine will prove a good medium and buckles play a conspicuous part In its adornment. Une can hardly say "sports dress" without being understood to mean jumper dress, just now, two-piece costumes cos-tumes are so far in the lead of others. Jersey is the most popular material, but kasha, flannel, rayon mixtures, crepe de chine, radium silk and marocain are all in the running. Among the silks are some gty, striped patterns and costumes with skirts of a striped fabric and overgarment of a plain one or the reverse of this order are more fashionable than matched pieces. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (S). IS 26. Western NewsoaDOr Dnlon |