FASHION NOTES

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 64, 15 March 1919, Page 20

FASHION NOTES

The most fashionable veils, writes our Paris correspondent, for the moment consist of a big square of tulip, chiffon, or Ohantilly lace, embroidered with dote, or plain, and worn short in front, jnet covering the eyes, and falling over the shoulders and down the back in natural folds. On a toque or on a sailor shape the effect is good. This fashion, revived from ten or twelve years ago, will be as popular now as it was then. Face veils, either with spots or made of lace, are coining into vogue again, after having been dropped for the summer. lam not speaking here of the &\vathinge of tulle in all colours which well-dressed women wear at the mountains and on the "Plage." AVriting from the coming fashions in millinery our correspondent says hats will lean towards shapes of cloth and not of felt. The crowns will be large and quite high, almost square, in their proportions, and the brims will usually take the cloche form. We shall sco the boret, very large, and covering the hat as far as the brim; it will match the costume, and be quite without trimming. One of the factors that contributes in making the increased '•dressiness" of the autumn hats noticeable is the innumerable unique shapes whose very effectiveness depends upon their intricacy, and not bo much on their trimming. They are of the "hand-made" drappd type that require perfect workmanship. Nothing of the extreme simplicity that marked the preceding season's showings could be attributed to these draped model?, and the very materials which have been chosen to create them—velvet, pannr, plush, for instance—bring them into the dressy class. Of course, the wide vogue for ostrich trimming is another element -contributing to this dressiness, becatisp no matter how tailored the shape of the bat. nor severe the ostrich trimming, a hat so trimmed is always a little dressier than trimmed with wings, for example. Other hat shapes that are receiving attention arp the ones that are wider at the right side, with either a roll or a narrow brim on the loft side. Needless to say the trimming is placed on the right side of these hats. Then the broad brim hate, with thp greater breadth from sidn to side than from back to front, are well thought of, especially when the brim is slightly mushroom shaped. Although the large hats are the favourites of the moment, the smaller shapes, such as the turbans, toques, tarns, ami small sailors, featuring the cushion brim, will doubtless hold their own. Among the newest arrivals in the ribbon field are black saehes edged with fringe. This idea is inspired by the representation of black ribbon sashes on autumn frocks of serge and satin. Even mid-winter dresses are frequently sashed or girdled with richly-coloured ribbon or sheer white organdy sashes. Anions the latter are black gowns of a semiformal character, which depends upon the girdle or sash to relieve their sombreness.