Sports Clothes.

For the country, for golf, or for morning wear, choose a tweed suit or one in two-tone effect—for instance, a plaid or check skirt in plain fabric repeating the skirt material on the coat collar or one of the new scarf collars. Your skirt should be gored, or else have flat pleats to keep the slim effect. With your two-piece suit, wear one of the new striped silk shirt blouses. Whether you golf, or merely look sporty, a suede coat is an asset. Hip-length coats, belted or not, certainly seem to be here to stay. Have you seen the corded velvet coat worn with a tweed skirt? They are the very latest and so becoming. Wear a jaunty stitched tweed hat or a felt with a tweed finish with your tweed suit, and a velvet with your corded velvet coat. A complete suit of corded velvet is charming for more dressy occasions.

Hand and machine-knitted garments are well to the fore. Jumpers, berets, scarves and cravats in gay colours or with multi-coloured stripes are useful and becoming. I saw a smart jumper knitted in diagonal stripes of brown, tangerine and tawny yellows. Buttons are now worn on jumpers, even on those of the hand-knitted variety, adding interest to the yoke effect or running in glittering lines up the long thin cuffs. By the way, buttons still wink with a steely glitter. They are not quite so military, as the steel often rims a coloured button, or inserts itself in a shiny triangle.

Ermine-velour, fur fabric or fur, is smart and warm for hip-length coats, or for one of the new cravats which are worn with collarless coats or with street frocks.