IDEAS FOR FANCY DRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 219, 16 September 1938, Page 12

IDEAS FOR FANCY DRESS.

Let Your Costume Be Attractive and Gay. Tlu>re is nhviiya n cheerful an<l earefroi" :i 1 inor*jilipic lit n fancy dress* party which is mil i';i-v to cm|itme on a more formal iH'ciir-iiiii. The very fact that ymi are dressed differently. ciiii make Niiiu-i'lf ii|i to change your ;l]ipf;ii;iiu-0, urn] can use your iicting tnli'iit to pluy a part, nil ;i,l(l to tli«> spontaneity of t In , evening. When you receive Mil invitation for sonic fancy (ll'i-irt ji tf H if, tile tir«t thought uhii-li cios.-i-i your niitKl will probably 1,,.. "\V|,,n «ili J wi-Hl-r ,

Considerable thought can hi- jri veil to -neli a (|iicstiiiu for tli<- -cope provided is wiili" ii n<l tin- i<l.-iis tor frocks innumerable. Will it !.r« a period jrown, il national cost nine. ;i frivolous folly or pii-rct ti\ or noiiie humorous cliaracterisat ion ? A groat ileal depends nn the indi\idual a>i to wliiit will be most suitaide. If you ran sustain a comedy role, yon will lie aide to wear any old garment and got. ii way with it. otherwise choose something which will he simple to make or obtain, and something which will lie becoming.

Many simple frocks pan he made- for very little cost or trouble. Be a powder [iiifT iinil trim a short flared skirt with nwiinadown nti<l make a swansdown eap to fit snugly on your head; borrow your brother's trouser* and pull an old eap over your liead. enrry a lnindle of papers, and you're a newsboy; or make a full skirted frook of white sateen and trim it with black woollen pompons and you will be a jray little pierette. If you are patriotic and want to support your country, wear wool. You may choose many skeins of different coloured wools, nans them from the waistline in graduating colours, croehet n cap in different coloured circles and you can represent a rainbow. If you nrp. the fortunate possessor of a larjie embroidered sha ,vl. swathe it round you, leaving one shoulder hare. Then stick a high eomb in your hair nnd a rose in your mouth, and 10, the pay oennrita. There is no «>nd to the types of,frocks which ean b< , made for very little eo«t. but the more original your idea the better, for then you will be- able to stand out among your fellow dancers.