SOME FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 4 October 1916, Page 8

SOME FASHION NOTES.

FasMon papers report that* good deal °f gTW w itf be seen about iiie summer, but even more popular still -will be those tones which are becoming to • almost every -woman, and are known as Dieciiit and beige. The biscuit tint is well known, but beige means many varieties to most people, yet it is. very defiaiteiy. irat one, and iiat-Iβ"something tliat is not a jrery delicate shade of fawn, or yet a sand colour, but something between the. two. One great cbann about 'the ibJecuit or beige frock is its cool appearance. • With frocks- in these tints, the Paroienne—with her usual consummate art in the use of the drese detail—is wearing long, swaying black jet eirrings; her hatpins, too. are of gleaming jet; and more often than not she also dons a tie of narrow black moire, carelessly crossed over, and banging in two long en.de, from which danzle«%ea<is of cut black jet.

It is curious (save a Melbourne fashion writer) that the smartest hat for early summer wear should "be black, and composed of panne. But bo it'is. The broad-brimmed sailor in Week panne, with a black silk cockade pressed flatly againet the front of the crown, and with a shower of goura feathers sprouting therefrom,. is quite the smartest of advance - hat fashions. Some of the very prettiest of the small.liats for summer wear are-made of crepe de'ehfene over a. foundation of taffeta, and these are" generally-ornamented ity; posy of bright, glased fiowere. *

The - distinction of the summer frock this season (says a Melbourne •writer) depends entirely on its collar. 7 The ■word "collar perhaps does not adequately describe it, for it is the large collar which aspires to be a cape that is the most popular form of tliia important dress detail. Sometimes the.cape combines itself with the .tall, collar, and a very charming edition of this shows a tall collar shaped exactly like the calyx of an arum lily, opening off twin pieotcapes. This style is carried out in sheerest white muslin. Sets of capecollars and . cuffs carried out in -white Organdie, lightly, embroidered in delicate colours., and edged with pin tucks, are fascinating adjuncts to the flowered voile frock. Xet cape-collaie edged with dainty. cascades. of narrow pleated net frills are ethereal, and verr appropriate, attendants onthe foulard* frock. Net, too, seems more appropriate than the stiff Organdie 'to'form the'indispensable collar, -whatever iti mhape oa the taffeta fnocfc-,. \ • ■ -"" " • .; " ;'--,