LADIES' COLUMN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 6, 8 January 1916, Page 11

LADIES' COLUMN

FASHION NOTES Some good notes on novelties in dress are given by a writer in the Tasmanian Mail as follow:—A small etcetera is the novelty brooch. They are a drapery line, Here axe a few Ono is a silver safety-pin broitfb, set with enamel and pearls or brilliants. Another a narrow enamel bar set in silver with brilliants.' Another a flat enamel in oval ■ And another a silver enamel leaf Bar and crescent styles are- shown in silver and jet enamel, and a gold safety-pin is set with pearls. These little things are obtained for a trifle. We say pearls and brilliants, but, of cour£e, they are imitation Drapers nowadays stock quite a number of minor "jewellery" lines— bangles and necklets to wit. A coral necklet with graduated beads is always a pleasing possession. I I am tempted to lift the curtain to give some idea of future styles. We'are marching towards greater simplicity still, and when summer is over we shall see what the designers have been able to do with the military inspiration. The hats will emphasise the styles of all the Allies, and with variations that will need- an interpreter The most striking hat will bo the high crown. It will assuredly lead all others, and the higher it is the smarter it will be esteemed. You will see velvet toques borrowed from the Cossack, which, until this war, yon never dreamed existed, trimmed with wings of taffeta, and dashed with colour. Yon will see French Alpine hats of all kinds, entirely reminiscent of the field; and you will see the most extraordinary tricornes ever thought of. But one of the sure hats will be a Tam-o'-Shanter, savouring of the Scotch, the band part gauged, and wings for the ornament And another that would be sure, but for the fact that it is going to be anticipated, ,and by your humble servant for one, will be a sailor, with dome crown, the feature of which will be a folded ribbon brim coming from a like surround half the crown's depth. I shall illustrate this next week, as it is good enough.to adapt. With respect to costumes for indoor functions, dinners, etc., the modes will not materially differ, from now, save that, bodices will savour more of the leisurely time of "old ■ colonial days," and skirts will be wider, and where in flounces, these will ■ flare one , over another. For street wear little coatees will be seen of close conformity over side coat fancies on the skirt, and in every case the skirt will be fuller, and; indeed, as full as it can be made without restoring what we re- . fuse to have—that abomination, the crinoline.With respect to long coats, they will often hang from the. shoulders with a steadily widening effect to mid-skirt, but half belts will mark tho waistline, and military strappings will be more than popular lam much impressed with the tremendous splash which is being made in the English papers to win our favour on behalf of the British looms. It strikes me that many of the writers are swayed by patriotic zeal quite as much as by the ordinary dress feeling. They are thinking of the hundreds and thousands of women who, when the war is over,, will have to turn to, and dress is the chief avenue. All they ask the to do is.prefer British goods to any other, and remember that the war will compel a modification of the stylos of the past. Take my' word for it, Madame La Mode is going to set up her court in London, or, at any rate, one quits the equal of the traditional one in ?aris. , . ' .