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Your Old Coat and Skirt

Do you keep in your wardrobe a perfectly good coat and skirt—useless because fashion demands ankle-lengths now, and your skirt is just below the knees? You look at it often, sadly admiring the cut of the coat and thinking how well it fits you, but what to do with that ridiculous skirt is the question. And the answer is nothing! Hopeless to add about twelve inches to its inadequate length, it must be abandoned. This does not sound particularly helpful or economical.

But you can make a new costume easily. Look at the little sketch and visualise yourself in the autumn. There is the coat of your suit just as it was three years ago; but the skirt is new and fulfilling every demand of 1933, flared, close-fitting at the hips, nearly ankle length.

Buy some fine tweed check, or some of that very smart shepherd's plaid, to match your coat, and run up a six-piece skirt. Behold a new outfit for the office!

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