FASHION IN FIJI.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1430, 3 May 1912, Page 5

FASHION IN FIJI.

Till-; NEW .MODE IN LOINCLOTHS. t Kays tlio London "Daily Mail" :-Tlh> . critical paint of tii-s Eijiai; year oi fashions-has been reached during the hist ) week, with (lie arrival in London of Jlr. S. L. Laarus, of tlio .firm of llroilziak and Co., Suva, Fiji, whose mission is to interpret to English designers (ho latest tendency of Use Polynesian mode. The task "is one of sumo delicacy i for whims clmngo quickly among the indigent mis high Isle of Suva. The promenader,* for instance, who joined Hie fashionable' jsarado on the bench on a Sunday aiterm>nn, diTS":-;i in a red loincloth ol' floral design—Mich as 'was lately the • coitcet wear—would now liial himsell' a social 1 outcast. At pi'i'SMH tlie brst 'people are yearing no lolneloUfs but thu c e of bin®.jean with a conventional chintz pattern, j two'yards ill width, bi.it it would he pro-" mature to speak of Ilia probable disposition of folds am! knot in which'it will bo arranged, until tho cue has been given liy tho leaders of the inner set, when th 6 season opens at Suva with tlio first beach promenade alter (ho .present hurricane inonvhs are over. As far as tlio loincloth is concerned, both sexes of I'iji society have common interest?, l-'or country wear it is-uu* necessary to cumber oneself -with «ddi-, tional outfit. In town, however,.-iv is.. usual for men who lay claim to being' really well dressed io add a .Manchester shirt of n colour eonlrasling with .tls3 tint of tho nether f,Y<rme)itv For women who aspire at all to ri place'in the'movement of fashion a silk "liinafoie" is qin to essential when visitiiis the capital. Samoan-ladies, of-whom many h.w re*, cenliy como to live in l'iji, often add si print" "wrapper," but (lie doyennes of (lio most exclusive l'iji sots condemn tlio moilo as exotic, ', • When the beach was at its .' fullest' several- Sundays ago, one of the fast set, to which tho terms "young bloods ' of" "nuts" are beginning to be applied, appeared among the fashionable throng of„ proincmuici's wearing a pair of ItarnpMti* trousers much- too long- lor -hini, luui- de~ mods oven from tho European • standard ill rough being patched; boots-i.f dlilereul. patterns, mid one 'of. larger size. Hum tli'».\ other; ft linen cellar which bad-only been nuulo bv great 'effort to meet round'his. thick neck, and a tn|)-hnt. lie enii-eci eon-' feiderablo chagrin to the re.-t in Iho st,\lish company by slopping I mom' ol'.hiftcquamtancoi whom h? met ami ciemand-. ins in'the broken - English -which pretentious young men n!leet, "Von mi know uiof"