FASHION NOTES FROM LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 342, 31 October 1908, Page 11

FASHION NOTES FROM LONDON.

: ' PANAMA HATS. These light and charming hats are too good to go out of fashion; the consequence is, that they are being transformed in many ways, the leading notion being to dyo them. They are -so ■ light. and cool, and can be so easily adapted to any. form of face; tbey will \ take almost any colour, and, surrounded by a scarf of some: diaphanous stuff, are certainly : very picturesque. . THE SACRED BEETLE. The scarab jewellery is not the sort of thiDg to' be worn by anybody, nor on any occasion, but it sometimes looks extremely fascinating. 'A dark-haired woman, with long eyes of the Egyptian type,' wore a beautiful dull turquoise cloak at the play not-long since; fastened with a splendid clasp formed of an antique scarab between tho- conventional ; outspread" pair of -wings. There was -a deep border of Egyptian embroidery at the hem, arid the lining was of • dull gold/ The same idea was repeated in somewhat Smaller size in front of the dusky, ; parted locks'.' THE RETURNING FRILL. • Slowly but surely frills are returning. In ' at present one sees them in rather un-u,-hsual places, high up on short skirts, or t> iorming sleeved, but after so long an abstinence from them one cannot expect fashionable women to wear them as they used. Otherwise, -fashions aro really trying, and the clinging draperies knotted round ■ the figure when not swathed with sashes in all sorts of positions, except at the waist,, are ir-.uch less graceful than they mean to be.