Straw Is Here Again!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Straw Is Here Again!

Fashion Notes

TIERE again is straw! It has made its appearance at our leading milliners, who are already creating charming models in picot leghorn, stitched braids and crin. Felt remains the typical material par excellence for the hat (or morning wear and sports, and fine supple felt which allows of recherche work is particularly liked. In the collection*, we have seen many beret* worn to the back, or very tilted on one side. Many of th® models, though, are worn well on the front of the head, and broad, straight brims characterise them. Other shape* include pillbox toque« and the Flemish •tyle bon-

By---A Paris Expert

net, with receding squared crown, and sports felts, with deep backs and brims which sweep forward in a fairly bokl iine. There are & lot of draped turbans, but Park milliners are frank in admitting that thesS may not prove of general interest. One very good point is that the new hat* are intricate, and therefore difficult to copy cheaply.

Another point in millinery to be stressed because it is common to all the latest models is the deep-fitting back. This means that our spring hats will ail be comfortable. Even those which look deceitfully from the front as if a breath of wind would blow them away, are found, on closer inspection, to be snugly fitted to the head at the back. Feather* and flowers are once more sharing the honours with ribbons. The feathers embrace all phantasies from the quill to sumptuous paradise, nigrettes, ostrich, and small feathers. Flowers are arranged in bunches, even in garlands passing beaeath the chin. Sometime* the flower on the hat is repeated as a buttonhole or mm a collar fastening, and this always gives a very stylish ensemble. Advice from Paris Nothing wrecks a woman's career like choosing the wrong drees. Big moments rarely come into the life that k dressed for small parts, and that's why the women I see round and about the Paris salons making the momentous decision of "which model" have a fateful look about them.

Dresses this season will be chosen because they have charm, and charming frocks, like charming people, don't come along every minute. The sleek, wet-seal look, all a drees needed to have last year, means a little leas than nothing this season. Dresses swing out into graceful skirt lines, or they are draped into mysterious folds about the corsages, or made brilliant with embroideries, belts, and such things.

Dross "don't*" start off with shoulder*. Fashions still stand for fancy doings ■t the tops of sleeve*. Skirt length* come in 'for the second don't. Don't hare a skirt too long unless yon have stopped caring about styles. Skirts are crisp and short for all daytime wear—a good 14 inches off the floor —and they even <H*y short on many of

tli<* informal evening dresses. However, graceful instep and floor-length skirts arc as smart as ever, from cocktail time on far into the night. On Waistlines Look to the waistline of your new drees, waistlines are being played up. They get heavy, shiny belts, bright velvet belts, jewel-studded belts, eilk cord sashes, and soft tie-behind gashes—anything to make them look slim and willowy; they are placed high, or high-lighted by flaring pe plums. Dress necklines for daytime continue for the most part to be high, but the rule is not a cast-iron one, and you may wear your throat open to the world if you like. Dress colours will be about the most important thing in life to the styleconscious this season. White dresses? Yes, there will be plenty of them, and even black will not be abandoned, for many are the black organdie dresses on view trimmed in white Valenciennes or even in coloured laces. But the newest thing is the dress that is in colour, colour that is dark, deep and mysterious, like aubergine, amethyst, lusty red bishop's purple. Lingerie for Sports "The right'clothes for the right occasion" is the first commandment of common sense as well as fashion. For sports, the right underclothes are becoming almost as important as the right outer clothes. Your lingerie should be carefully planned for each sport— ( what you wear for tennis will never do for riding, your tennis, underwear must Ih3 quite different from your golfing lingerie.

rastel-coloured lingerie is being created. For instance, fragile lovely underthings are pearly grey or soft rose, or French blue. Most of these would be fashioned of filmy chiffons or ninon, as the less transparent silks do not make the feminine luxuries as Well as these delicate fabrics. Every tint of green lingerie is also very fashionable. The newest note is the lightest spring grassgreen lingerie! Many garments included in the seta are of this dainty colour— nightdresses, boudoir gowns and caps included. The spring grass-green garments are made of the softest silks and crepe de chines, and they have no trimming beyond a little fine tucking, narrow ribbons, and narrow sashes. * ♦ ♦ ♦ Paris Snapshots sizes of dots are as good as ever on dark brown, black, deep green and blue. Belts in viviti shades of contrast are high fashioned coloured accents for these dotted dresses and suits. J3RINTED taffetas are interesting. These crisp materials will fashion blouses, hats, suits and costume accessories for spring. "£JSE small prints, for daytime dresses . . . dark backgrounds with smell designs sprinkled over navy blue, brown or black, with lots of the dark colours between patterns showing.