HIGH ART IN UNDERSKIRTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 8

HIGH ART IN UNDERSKIRTS.

FUR TRIMMED CORSETS. FASHION NOTES FROM LONDON. jfrorn Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON. April 17. Tlio eueeess of the Watteau hat—in spite v>{ all cocksure prognostications a* to tlio opposite because of its implied impractieality—is as completely established as that ot many anotlior as mipxpepiod a style. And with colours discrwtly elwsen. a dark straw, for instance, there is none of the suggestion of a haymaking picnic in Piccadilly as was predicted. The main features of the hat are that it is flat across the top, curled uuder at each side and elevated at the back, whore it reaches well out beyond specially <«if--1 tired hair. Quite a considerable amount of trimming then is disposed of beneath the back. A band of ribbon, ribbon velvet or of flower? generally stretches across what ill another hat would be the crown, but is sometimes relegated to the back. DOLLY YARDEN HATS of siuli simplicity that they could be perfectly easily trimmed at home, are being shown for smart occasions. The framework of these is of fine chip or varnished tagpl. the trimming, double large loose haws, iit the back, of soft moire ribbon brought loosely round the front of the hrim on top and fastened at one side with' a small round posy of flowers. The necessity is a well and apparently carelessly arranged bow. ~ LEATHER-LIKE RIBBON. that at first swamped the millinery world in black, now appears in colours also. TORTURED QUILLS in divers shapes, corkscrews and such like, reappear on small models. RIBBON "FIRESCREEN"' TRIMMING is succeeded by round feather fans, with a vulcanite spike up the centre, one double example of these then being poised at the corner of an almost brimless morning straw toque.

A CHERRY ORCHARD HAT is a novelty and difficult, perhaps, because of that, to adjudicate upon. It is a round erownod brimless toque of leave? with hripht rod cherries set at intervals all over it. MOIKE RIBBON ENDS. of ribbon about an ineli in width and so cut and made up as to look in the distance like the double mercury wings that are so piquant and fashionable, are now notions. Four, five or sis of these are set round the extreme edge of the crown of a toque. TOWERING TIP? in jroup.-, or set. curled like hollyhock?, on a iigh stem, distinguish some of the head<*?ar purporting; to come from France. One "hijjh art" firm is rather overreaching itself in an attempt tr< produce an nrt list of dyed rushes with a baud and side festoons dropping over the wide brim at one side of coloured wooden bead?, fastened at the opposite side with ■d monster drajrou fly in mother o' pearl. BLACK OSPREYS sewn or grummed flat completely round the straight lirini of a white hat arc considered very chic FITCRIST PETTICOATS follow the lead of the same up-to-date kimonos, and silk underskirts, open at one side, of yellow splashed with red. blue and bright preen designs, appear. THE SPLIT UNDERSKIRT, by the way. is a most comfortable garment and very easy to make, since the entire, shaping can be. managed by gussets on the hips, and the silk then mado up lengthwise, with a narrow pleated frill round the bottom and up one side of the slit which, without indiscretion, can reach as far as the. knee —a very comfortable idea for walking.

AX EXTRAORDIXARY BLOUSE lias made its debut this week not only with a basque and a. pocket but with a waistcoat also, though it is fashioned in rotton. One dubs it extraordinary Ijecause every lino of it calls for a corseted tigure, aud with every season the obviously outlined one recedes further into tbe background. TAXGO SHOES, that is to say. low satin shoos with silk biting up above the. ankle, have not disappeared with the tango. The ribbons now are of pom? bright colour to contrast with tilt , shoo proper. FIR TOPPED CORSET? are surely extravagant conceits, but here they are. Mainly of flame-coloured silk with a narrow skunk edging. .-ILK SAILOR COLLARS, in bright colours, with the hemstitched ends left loose like a couple of tie ends, are in vogue for wear over white blouses. ELABORATE STEEL TAG? on shoo laeps have appeared to join the craze for the lavish ornamenting of shoes. Catwo buckles r.re now being sported at one side of a strap; high heels in which the enamel hardly shows for coloured inlaid stones; double and treble close pleated fans of chiffon with elaborate paste buckles on the instep; and remarkable round buckles of real gold inlaid on steel.