FOLLIES OF FASHION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 328, 15 October 1908, Page 3

FOLLIES OF FASHION.

At Randwick races (writes "Gristina," in the "Australasian"), the .hats and dresses looked smart, picturesque, and artistic, as a whole, but when the component parts were analysed one wondered how, .their wearers had the "nerve" to put them on. The fen Direcioire j*owns; cut somewhat on the bias,, hanging skimpily from between the shoulders. seemed very like wrappers, glorified, of course. The Empire coats, slashed up the sides, were reminiscent of dressing jacket's, loose and voluminous., Then thero were Kimono coats and, "surplices" in plenty, built'.of''silk,and cloth'. The hats, swathed round with a -ribbon or a baud of gold, with, a bunch ot feathers stuck at ail angle of ,45, looked easy enough to copy at first glance, but" it; jvas;. soon patent that it is the angle tha,t is: unattainable by the amateur. It "is 1 thjs that fetches the price. A girl 'ipoked very nioo' came in a.i wide.- 'straw' hat, with three ribbons,' rose,'mauve, and apple-green, banded together round il:, will) long- streamers waving over'the "side. ' Ati extra long pink end was caught in at tho .waist, and dangled, to. the: foot of the skirt, let this hat' passed almost unobserved. One , lady wore heliotrope shining- kid gloves up three-quarters-.the .length of her arm. An-' Dth'er'rsported • suede shoes to .silk parasol. Theso things were scar'c'wv:-remarked.' 'They are daring, that if' all. > it is l'audace, l'audaco toujourE, l'audace, if you wish to look smart. Burrocks'; and hats need not necessarily be inhtom6nious,_ or inclined to "shriek", at the onlookers. •' Nobody could help .seeing at Randwick first day a tall lady who exploited a greenery-yallery silk' dress.-The long skirt and, : epat of the dressing-jacket .order were made of. this .vivid material,..and enscrollcd all over with black straight lines and twirligigs. "Tell me, quickly, is that a walking Chinese pagoda," asked, ono man, "or have I got-delirium tremendous?'.'.. The second day, .a vivid green silk tunic, draped over a white silk; sewn hero and-there with pink, and green medallions, was worn by one lady. , A coat of flowered brocade, with long "swallow-tails;" .was another sight (in more senses, than one) on, another da,y of the meeting.