Invest in a Versatile Trench Coat Inter Is a Cloudy, Grey and Enough, It Doesn’T Need Any Acces- I Make a Dark Season, but Our Sory
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
12 Wednesday July 13 2016 FASHION Athlone News Invest in a versatile trench coat inter is a cloudy, grey and enough, it doesn’t need any acces- I Make a dark season, but our sory. statement with Wwardrobes can still excite us Whether you are wearing a dress your coat. in so many ways. or pants with a sleeveless top, here are We just have to think and plan. some ideas: The temptation to wear black most of A gorgeous jacket can glam up a the time is stronger than ever, basic little black dress. whether it is a jacket or long sleeve If it is nicely fitted it will look good polo neck and jeans, but everyone over a dress, with black pants or a pair seems to be combating this with of dark wash (or black) jeans. colour outerwear. And in a good way. All you need are pretty earrings On Trend The joys of winter are in the layer- and a bracelet, if you are so inclined, Ronelda Rhode-Fielies ing. and you are good to go. Invest in colour outerwear or Or maybe you just want to cover BUY A TICKET bring subtle or bold printed coats your upper arms a bit but don’t need get something so beautiful and prac- questions for Ronelda or think you & STAND A CHANCE TO into your wardrobe and throw this a lot of added warmth. tical. have a talent for putting together WIN TWO TICKETS over a casual ripped or other jeans Then a wrap will do the trick and For more information you can go trendy outfits, email your queries, TO ISTANBUL and top to create an instantly pol- it’s hands-free. to www.ronelda.com Follow @Ronel- comments – or pictures – to fashion- ished look. If you don’t need to be all dressed daRhode on Instagram and Twitter, [email protected] Women are wearing sleeveless all up but don’t want to feel like you are and you can also find her on Face- This column will appear once a year round – even in the cold winter wearing your work or ultra-casual book. If you have fashion-related month. months but if you cannot bear the clothes to the event, try a pretty CapeTown thought of shivering all evening or understated jacket. grabbing an old, worn out cardigan These are just a few of the many, from your wardrobe, then planning many ideas. Read of the Week iva ahead will help. There are a large number of coats fest l Your coat is something that is easy and jackets available this winter sea- The Reb and The Rebel After a few months, he to overlook. son, including wool coats, longline Edited by Carmel returned to Cape Town delivered by The last thing you want to do is coats and military inspired jackets Schrire intending to go back to his throw on the parka you wear to walk (full lengths). and Gwynne Schrire wife in Russia, but he was the dog when you are feeling festive Other styles include capes, pon- UCT Press persuaded to stay, and, as it and elegant. chos, denim jackets and the wardrobe Review: Brian Joss was winter at home and 11 JULY - 7 AUGUST Sometimes you need or want staple that is worth investing in is a summer in Cape Town, he BAXTER THEATRE something longer and this is really great trench coat. It’s astonishing what “the remained before he decided hard to find except in the huge puffer The trench is a favourite as it’s very big cupboard” can hold. In what to do. coats that make you look like the versatile. this case, it was a hand- In the poem, the Reb, ALAN COMMITTIE snowman. A beautiful coat is an investment written diary and who is reunited with his wife SA ★ FULL FESTIVAL Try a super elegant coat – you in your wardrobe – something you autobiographical poem and family, waxes lyrical won’t want to take it off all night. The will have for years – and you will smile belonging to her great about his life, through KEV ORKIAN statement coat has the same function every time you go out and put it on, grandfather that Carmel triumph and adversity, with UK ★ 21 JULY - 7 AUGUST as a beautiful dress: if it’s good delighted at how smart you were to Schrire found. one thought in mind: Her cousin, Sea Point returning to the Holy City. ENNIO MARCHETTO resident, Gwynne Schrire, However,that was not to be. ITALY ★ 21 JULY - 7 AUGUST had the reminiscences of The memoirs of the MARC LOTTERING his son, and it was the District Six-born rebel, his SA ★ FULL FESTIVAL discovery of these three original manuscripts that son Harry (1895–1980), are just as compelling eventually led to the book, The Reb and the and explain much about the Reb. GLEN BIDERMAN-PAM Rebel, being published. However,Harry’s amusing reminiscences SA ★ FULL FESTIVAL Sub-titled “Jewish Narratives in South Africa about District Six and Jewish life in Cape Town 1892–1913”, it is a fascinating insight into life in will intrigue many. Harry Nathan describes his GINO FABBRI Cape Town and Johannesburg by Reb Yehuda school days, the social life of the Cape and what SA ★ FULL FESTIVAL Leib Schrire (1851–1912) who was well versed today would be called a start-up business, the CARL WASTIE in Jewish law: he was a cantor and a shochet – a Great Saccharine Venture. SA ★ FULL FESTIVAL kosher slaughterer. There is also an engaging story about a He arrived in the City of Gold from Lithuania cantor who “adopted” one of Reb Yehuda’s YAASEEN BARNES in 1892 and, in his diary, describes his journey compositions as his own. SA ★ 11- 24 JULY ONLY from his birthplace, Oshmanye, through Harry also recalls his “gang” – the Germany, Holland, the Canary Islands to his Harrington Street Loafers – and the mischief they THE BIG BOYS arrival in Cape Town on the Dunbar Castle and got up to. SA ★ FULL FESTIVAL then to Johannesburg. Another amusing anecdote is about a Polish His description of the long trip is so lively Jewess who was charged with keeping a brothel. that you feel you are on the ship, on the train and The three memoirs give an unusual insight into a on the mule cart with the Reb,Yehuda Leib. way of life long gone.You will have to keep BOOK AT COMPUTICKET He also devotes a chapter to the “customs referring to the footnotes that accompany the GENEROUS DISCOUNTS ON of the inhabitants” and if you think that deaths three memoirs, even so, it does not detract from BLOCK BOOKINGS OVER 10 after ritual circumcision are a modern what is a compelling read. CALL THE BAXTER ON phenomenon, they’re not. “Many of them die at It is not only a valuable addition to the 021 685 7880 the hut and only those who survive and heal will history of the Jews in this country, but also that of be accepted as men,” he writes in his diary. South Africa. LINE-UP SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.