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Capes still enchant most Cambridgiennes, and fortunately an attractive variety has appeared on the market in recent months. ADELE BRAGAR has a narrow, waterproof cape with detachable epaulettes and big brass buttons in khaki poplin ($20) and in lovely blue corduroy. ($24). Most stores carry several good styles, but GERTRUDE SINGER'S cape collection remains unsurpassed in Cambridge. In Boston, FILENE'S is showing some striking models in pastel wools with shoulder button closings...
...dearth of trunks, J. August, 1320 Mass. Ave., is out of the swim. For summer suits and sport coats, however, we recommend them highly. You will find their suits in poplin ($45) and dacron/wool ($85) stocked in a complete range of sizes. Brightly colored dacron/cotton bermudas go at $10, and for the more staid, they carry British linen walking shorts ($18). Calf suede desert boots, also from England ($15), are comfortable and popular...
...South Africa today the businessman's gloom is fading. Last week the big British weaving firm of Cyril Lord Ltd., which produces fine poplin for Brooks Brothers and Sulka, announced that it was closing two of its British mills and planned to replace them with a new, $2,000,000 plant in South Africa. New British investment in South Africa has jumped from a scant $11 million in 1961 to an estimated $28 million this year. Britain now has $2.5 billion invested in South Africa (v. $2.2 billion in the U.S.). In addition, increasing amounts of U.S., French...
...Poplin jackets, sloppy-Joe sweaters, and colorful tops designed to provide a public front for the Bikini wearer...
...notable trend this year toward ecclesiastical do-it-yourself. "Save up to 50%," J. Theodore Cuthbertson Inc. urges readers of Episcopal and Presbyterian magazines, "on Finest Quality Church Vestments with Ready-to-Sew Cut-Out Kits." Hopkins Co. offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity-only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50. Priests would presumably be relieved to receive NOWILTEX clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience in administering...