FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 246, 14 October 1908, Page 10

FASHION NOTES.

—■ I RETURN OF THE LONG VEIL. , Everything points to the fact that the | long veil will be with us again. Already some of the shops are showing hats decorated with these graceful veils; some of the designs fall well below the waist, while others merely reach to the shoulders. These veils show great variety, individuality, and, if the truth must be told, oddity as well. August though it is, new models are still arriving at the milliners' to tempt customers. A picturehat in smoke-grey net, bordered with j heavy silk fringe to tone, has a fringed veil of the net reaching almost to the ground. Very charming is another of these veils which falls from the sides of the hat to the shoulders, while the back of the veil falls in a point well below the waist line. At the present moment face veils were never more varied or more beautiful. They come in hundreds of designs, and just what kind of veils are most becoming, each individual has the opportunity of deciding for herself. The doublethreaded mesh veil is most becoming. It makes the complexion look clear, and brings out all the soft shades of the hair. The spider-web veil worn with the picture hat is extremely thin, and serves more than anything to preserve the smoothness of the coiffure. THE LEAF-TRIMMED HAT. I The vogue for a leaf-trimmed hat (says i a fashions writer) has been the kindest j possible concession to the depleted purse |at the approaching close of the season. ; Leaves can still be obtained at prices j which are not outside the radius of a I girl on a small allowance, and a hat: j covered with foliage in the most ap- j j proved style cannot possibly vie in price ! with the model massed with 40 or 50 j roses, often delicately perfumed, or the I huge Gainsborough, piled with a clusI ter of the new limp "straight-fronded" feathers. The curled leaf of tbe lily of the valley stands first in favour in this connection, especially where the green or molecoloured hat is concerned, the leaves covering the crown so effectively that not a. single gleam of straw can be seen be•tween, while the only supplementary trimming consists of a large folded green wing on one side. With a white muslin gown this particular class of headgear looks ideally cool anr 1 dainty, and an effective addition is represented by one of the new scarves —a.t least a yard and a-half in width—■ which is designed of water green tulle as light and transparent as a cloud, and which is bordered all round with a chain of silver laurel leaves, studded at intervals with a single mock diamond to represent a hern-.