Style Ideas for Winter.

Coats? Town coats, as I indicated last month, achieve distinction with fur. A girlish coat has a neat turn-down collar of flat fur. A flaring coat adds a fur bolero and another accents the swirling skirt with a band of fur. A coat in tabac brown has for collar a red-fox skin. In contrast is a redingote, furless. If the day is mild, wear a wool frock and a fur jacket with a swagger flare; or your frock may simulate a coatee by clever placing of bands of fur.

Frocks? For the office a wool frock with adjustable neckline, buttoned or zipped, and a neat skirt, probably with knee pleats. Change into velveteen with a contrast vest, or with a striped cravat and sash. “Better” frocks have the sash long and flowing and probably of two or three colours; or they introduce contrast in a very full front panel; or by colourful beading, perhaps banding the neckline and extending in panels down the sleeves. Some afternoon frocks show the “corselet” or “cuirass” effect by means of a wide inset band swathing the waist and hips.

For dancing? I prefer wide skirts for appearance and comfort, though slim, slit ones are just as fashionable. I saw a simple shirtfrock bodice allied to a very full skirt and inflated sleeves. Another, of different type, left the shoulders entirely bare; the bodice rose to a point at the base of the neck whence straps led to a deep V at the back.