Silk For Slender Silhouettes

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Silk For Slender Silhouettes

Fashion Notes

A SLENDER silhouette, swathed l\ and draped in silks, with wide shoulders revealed by low decolletages, with panels floating like music in the air, and with a floorlength cape flung over it—this will be the ideal for evening fashions this season. There will tie a lot of full-skirted period or picture frocke —with accentuation of the hipline—made' in lames and old-world materials, such ae moire with a satin stripe. Setting aside exaggerated bustle effects, these full dresses are to wear, and becoming to most apes and figures. The evening Jrese which just touchee the ground all round is expected to prove the most generally popu'ar. Jewele (usually synthetic, owing to present hard times) of great size, set in massive style, will be worn—neckliees, bracelets, earrings, broocnee and clips. Puffe of feathers and pailletted gauze will make fans swing back and forth by jewel-clad wrists. Wraps will be worn inside at the theatres and in the smart restaurants. Women will not part with these glamorous capes which are being made h> ostrich feathere, in velvet, in satin, in lame, entirely of flowers, and in paillette*. All "the new evening clothes, as a matter of fact, are romantic. A!! of them flatter, accent* slim waistlines. And

' they are seen in nearly every imaginable colour and combination. Sednetively d'sturbing lace gowns for ensembles are fashioned of fragile feminine lonlr'iig length* of patterned lace but fashioned in slim long lines, with the fullnees successfully "worked." so as to l-'epp the youthful streamline. Short pr.fed sleeves, drop-shoulders, or the !f>ng sleeves with shoulder puffing make t'!e«e creations alluring for the young as v. <\W ae for the older woman. Pcilletted Blouses Everywhere you go this season you are going to see the blouse and skirt idea in full force. In office, class-room. cocktail lounge, at afternoon tea aiul informal dinners, at lunches and bridge parties, the smartest women will be wearing the two-piece ensemble. Tht-re isn't a woman in the world who cai't wear the blouse and skirt ensemble. hecauee it suits any type of figure and is flattering to any age. . Separate blousee are a paramount element in thr fashionable woman's wardrobe. They are plain and fancy, thick and shot-r. Usually they are made dainty by fine handwork, tucks, ehirrings, frills. * They are just as popular in pastel colour as in white. Lace blouees are ehnwn for wear even with classic tailored suit*. The blouse of muslin or cotton whi-h is oa<«y to launder and which can always look fresh, is a delightful possession. Bloueee of this kind are worn with a good many of the tailored suit*, although sometimes blousee which match the ekirt and coat are worn so that an impression of a one-piece frock is given.

ByA Paris Expert

Another idea is to enemst tlie blouse with paillette*. The paillettcvs may bo black or in pastel colours or in white. r.ilvcr or gold, and they give a startling and impressive appearance. Dresnes for the afternoon this reason are mostly of the straight, rdini variety, with a definite balance in favour of black, deep "tulip noire" or turtledove, a pleading pink shade of beige which iexceedinjjly becoming to most women. Among afternoon dresses there is a ten dewy to fight shy of sequin trimming, which remains the garniture par excellence for blouses, for tailor-mades and for evening wear. Many of these dresses have elbow sleeves with tricky touches. ''Xo collars" will be a slogan for the coming season, and coat«s may fare ii* dresses in this matter. Another interesting coat is collurless ond made witli deep openings down the centre-front. Capes are indicated with first "springs.'' They are convincing in tlteir fairly comfortable length, which takee the border to a line below the waist. Cocktail dresses in crepe romainc nn<l silk jersey, which latter material clings like a wet gnrmeiit to the figure, are very much in the picture. And in this stylo of get up, contrast sleeves and draped sashes, are in favour. Regard-

ing belts, the controversy between belted vereus beltlees dresses so far a* afternoon dresses are concerned, has iT.-nhed itself into an acceptance of the beltht-s. line in the majority of the models. During imagination characterises the new spring niillinery. Crowns are r.till hiuh and painstakingly worked. Re\ei> ii'-e .set (in to forage caps, protruding from the forehead. The directoire period is a happy inspiration where crowns with slightly accentUHted moveinents running low oii to the neck are t>ho\vn. Largv directoire caps prettily shade the eyes. Then ue have toques in small feathers, very much worked velvet hereto with gathered brims, charming capelinee with crowns in velvet. "Halo" hats would put the cartwheel of 1!UO to shame. Comment must be made on the number of (lower hats which have appeared at various milliner?. They are romantic arid colourful, and when accompanied with flattering veils, are exceedingly dashing atfairs. Sequin* and IwmkU of metal ribbon glitter most enticingly on all kind* of small hats. Plumes from co<|ticttishlv curled small ostrich tips peeping over a high brim, to the long cavalier plume tickling the ear flnd caressing the shoulder line, are hard to resist, and go tinex|>cctedly well with thn new dress parade clothe*, especially the dresses and eapc combines. A novelty is tliat of the twisted and draped silk hats. In Paisley or stifT failles «nd grosgrains. these hats generally match blouses. The Mine feeling for softly draped hats is evidenced by the, use of jersey fabrics at a number of millinery houses.