FASHION NOTES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10356, 17 April 1930, Page 3

FASHION NOTES.

TRIMMING THE FROCKS OF j TO-DAY'. The way in which your frocks are trimmed dates them. For this season, certain trimmings are newly fashionable, and a study of these will make smartening a frock a simple matter, whether that frock be old or new. If your woollen frock has a slight; ly bloused top, a fitted hip yoke, and fullness in the lower skirt managed by means of pleats or flares, and the skirt well covering the knee, it is in shape all that is desired by fashion for this type of frock at the moment. It may be trimmed with buttons. Dome-shaped buttons are particularly fashionable. Leather or cloth may cover them ,or bone make them. A favourite neck trimming Is the triangular piece of figured silk, tied in scarf fashion, so ihat the point hangs down at the back, and the two ends tie once at a V-neckline, and fall down over the bodice. Belts of the same fabric of the frock, and buckled with'steel or bone, are very smart. One end of the belt, by the way, shoukl.be stitched to a point before turning it to the right side. You can make holes to take the prong of the buckle by piercing the belt with the awl from your’ work basket, and working round these with silk in button-hole stitch. Braided edges are fashionable. You can use braid thus on a new frock. Or if you have a last season’s frock the wristbands or collar edges of which are frayed, though the rest of the frock is quite good-look-ing, wwhy not bind the edges of the entire frock with braid —put tne braid on the collar, cuffk, hem and belt, and, if you like, sew it fiat in panelled effects on the bodice and hip .yoke. This will give you a very new effect. * The,woollen frock is so fashionable that you will want one wearable one in your warkwrobe at least. As a matter of fact, it is this season worth while obtaining one woollen frock as well cut and of as good material as you can afford. The new trimmings will allow you to ring the changes as often as you want. One frock of deep royal blue woollen fabric having revers and a buttoned fastening like a coat, shows a little crossed-over vestce of white, with double necklace of ivory, and a white leather flower worn on one lapel. Another shows belt and narrow roll-collar with tie-ends, both of corded t ßilk stripped in red,. green and white. The tweed of which it is made shows a greenish tinge. Tiny collars of silk, with scallopped or pleated edge, and cuffs to match, are a "favourite form of trimming on many new frocks. A wide, pleated Toby frill of sheer linen in pale pink shade is used on a frock of tweed that shows a decided pinkish tinge in Us colouring Boleros made in the same fabric as the frock have an important place In the mode. So have large, softlytied bows of the same material. Your belt can fasten with a bow' oi a buckle, as you wish. Softly-fall-ing Jabot pieces are seen arranged in a variety of ivays. Touches of fur make good trimming that can be worn fr several weeks yet. But the fur should be supple enough to make a scarf collar, or a bow effect, drawn through slots made in the bodice of the frock. Capes are in, too, and if you do not wish to have a coat to match your tweed frock, extra warmth—and extra smartness, too —can be obtained by having a short, detachable cape made to accompany the frock. Keep the belt on your rrocK as high as you can wear it, in order to preserve the new long line from waist to hem. Even your woollen coat should uow bo tightly belted at the normal high waistline —and this whether it is short, seven-eighths, or full length.