LADIES' COLUMN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 52, 29 August 1914, Page 11

LADIES ' COLUMN

LONDON FASHION NOTES A "LIGNE" OF TO-MORROW.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 17th July. The very latest "ligne" for to-morrow defines clearly the curves of the figure. It consists of swatheries round the waist, continued round the hips, and well below that part of the figure. The skirt below stands out in generous fulness, but , round the ankles there is still the restricting tight underdress. In smart circles the mumn#r windings are beine preferred to the silk coatee, a loose and vague thing that is often a cross between a cape and a bolero. SOME WASHING FROCKS. Cherry-pink handkerchief linen was used for a simple and attractive "tub" frock. Its bodice was cut on kimono lines, its neck was very wide open in front, its fastening was made down the front by a long line of white pearl buttons. There was a turndown collar of white embroidered batists, and wide cuffs of the same to finish the elbow sleeves. Round the waist was a sash of Algerian striped silk, encircling it once, and then the ends brought down to be knotted again just below the right hip. The accompanying hat of cherrypink velours had a. brim lining o^ fine cream straw, and its trimming consisted of a band of striped ribbon to correspond with the sash. Dresses of muslin — striped, spotted, sprigged, embroidered, or plain — are worn with coatees of linen in white or attractive pastel shades, and a sash of satin passing through a handsome buckle does nothing to detract from a result that is always pleasing. The best linens this season are very_ soft and silky looking, and the colourings are beautiful, tor 'morning wear, at small cost, white cotton crepon is very satisfactory, and a colour touch is easily imparted with good effect. Then, as an accompaniment to lingerie dresses, there are boots made throughout of white linen, laced with white ; if a slight touch of black is desired, then white boots are all ready with small toecaps of black patent-leather, and black laces to complete the scheme. These .boots cool, and they possess the further merit of being a recent introduction from France. AN UP-TO-DATE FANCY. Not. at every , period of our history ha* black velvet been regarded as an absolutely ideal summer fabric used in any quantity. Yet here we are with velvet capes, velvet swathery, and hats jot black velvet. All these details are to be worn with the lingerie dress_ of the finest embrosdered whfte niushn. The velvet that milliners use is of the softest chiffon make, and is as light as a good many kinds of straw. The majority of the , black velvet hats are flat of crown and capacious of brim — & sort of flat sailor shape—and the French have called it the canotier. A lining of soft pink aeroplane under the brim is becoming and cool to look at, while as for the trimming, there isgenerally little of it — one large flower, or perhaps a circle of ostneb tips of white or black. The black velvet canotier is quite the rage, 'and it is rather a pretty finish to have a small and slightly full hill of black chiffon falling over the edge of the brim. Canotiers, too, are made of exquisite lace, of flowered chintz, of fancy muslin and white embroidery, of linen, of pongee— indeed of almost everything except straw. Wonderfully pretty hats now are made of dress oddments, but when successfully handled none, of these hats give the idea that they owe their existence to odds and ends. ' Cotton voile now produced in dainty patterns can be used for hats with good effect, simply banded with velvet ribbon ' tied in a flat and generous bow. Flowered tulle laid over thin silk is useful for millinery, sometimes with a brim lining of soft straw, and a band of the same instead of one of ribbon. NOT INDISPENSABLE. Sashes and waistbelts and hip swatheries aie seen on every hand, generally with pleasing effect. A pretty method is to pass the sash ends through a handsome buckle. Some of the buckles are of polished shell, many are of silver, amber ie likely to be in demand, while jet, too, makes for further variety. It makes a scheme complete to introduce a corresponding buckle on a hat. Sashes, indeed, are m tremendous demand. ' and off hand one would be inclined to say that every fashionable dress must have one. But a little thought brings to mind the dress which is completed by a sleeveless coatee of flesh-pink taffeta*; its ends cross in front and thus form a sort of narrow waietbelt, and tie behind in a small moueme. bow. The coat removed, the dress is complete without any aort of sash or belt. It has a cor» sage of cream net, with half-length transparent sleeves, a three-quarter length taffetas overdress of the faint pink taffetas— so thin as to be almpst transparent. The underskirt, of cream satin, supporting two flounces of fine cream lace. The flounces are full, but the foundation to which they are at* tached is Btill very .narrow. The ideal that would be considered the new black velvet sailor shape, low and soft of crown, adorned with low-lying aigrettes or with uncurled ostrich feathers, or with a band of ermine. The accompanying wrap would be a transparent cape of black Chantilly, edged all round with the white summer fur.