Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

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54 One of the first acquisitions in a smart fall wardrobe is a lightweight coat. The one at the left, of black kasha cloth, is worn by Pauline Starke. Ideal for sport wear is the tailored cloak at the right, seen on Anna Q. Nilsson in a current film. * Fashioned for the A selection from the screen of wraps By Betty Coats usually top the list when you are considering a between-seasons wardrobe. For a medium-weight sport or dress coat purchased now can be worn over light gowns until quite late in the fall — in some localities, as late as December — by which time the winter styles are settled in character, and you have had time to decide upon the models best suited to you. On this page, therefore, I have sketched a few coats of the above-mentioned character, as well as two sport costumes, that are ideal for occasional wear both at present and later in the fall. The coat in the left-hand corner is very well suited to all MOST of us find it difficult to think of a fall wardrobe when the thermometer is still soaring to dizzy heights, and our days are still being spent — if we are lucky — at seaside or mountain resorts. If we are wise, however, a little looking ahead is quite in order, even at this early date, and a new coat or sport frock which bears the stamp of the coming season is nice to have for A useful and easily-copied dress is the sport frock of heavy yellow silk sketched at the left, worn by Pauline Starke. The sport dress at the right, of soft white flannel trimmed in red, was seen on Dolores del Rio. The cloak beyond this, adaptable to more dressy wear, is of pale-grey kasha trimmed with black seal, worn by Dorothy Seastrom. the occasional chilly day. It is too soon, of course, to predict with any great degree of accuracy what the principal changes of the fall season will be, but "straws show which way the wind blows," and the coats and frocks shown at many of the smart shops now, and designed for the "between seasons" period, are fairly good forerunners of the bona-fide fall styles which will appear later in the season. * A photograph of this coat is reproduced on the preceding page.