LADIES' COLUMN

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 11

LADIES' COLUMN

FASHION NOTES.

Some good suggestions for remodel ling are given by the writer in an exchange as follows :—

The new season will give ample opportunity to those who desire to make over old garments. It is London that decrees this time, or at least for the British Empire, and the ruling note is simplicity. Old velvet or velveteen dresses will serve a useful purpose if not good enough to any longer remodel as they are, because of the material for banded trimmings. The skirts and tunics, when otherwise plain, may be made, handsome by horizontal borders and they may be as deep as you like. Flounce bands employed on plain taffeta frocks may bo two or three or four. Then a bolt section be made with a lower section to ihe blouse, and an overfold collar again that extends well down the shoulder. Again, if there is enough, velvet or velveteen may be employed to fashion a waistcoat bodice over a taffeta skirt, this bodice being called waistcoat because of a carry-down from the waistline, with those distinctive frontal points. The velvet will again be used for a deep border at foot of skirt, and a trifle for a close collar with bow in front, and a band above cuff, to make this by drawing the sleeve in. It may again edge the brim of. your re-trim-med hat; and form the usual band around crown. Odds and ©nds should be carefully looked out just now, •mad© fresh again, with whatever skill is at your command, and made do fresh service applied in the many ways that will suggest themselves, now that the combination of materials is among the first pronouncements.

A few novelties are also mentioned by the same writer:—The latest thing is the ribbon train I am referring to evening frocks. The youthful dancer still clings to her short skirt, tut the train is a. broad ribbon from a huge butterfly bow, and it is long enough to trail. But observe—the end has a loop, and when the young lady is ready to dance this is deftly caught up and hung over a catchment at the. bow. A friend describes the ribbon-bow train as an "impudent innovation." Why impudent? I think it is a smart idea, and, after all, anything but a novelty Speaking of novelties, the latest hails from London— the neck scarf. Though to be worn somewhat later on, we may anticipate the description. It is, then, a long and decorative scarf which is either thrown round the neck or given a neck-piece independently. Let us have London's own words:—"Some are . downy affairs of gauze and swansdown, calculated to charm bnt not to warm; the most are gaudy-coloured mufflers of fleecy wool. They wrap several times round the throat and hold themselves there by buckle or tassel fastening as often, as not by a knot. The most severe of our sex look adorably feminine in a great floating cloud of sky blue, faintly striped in heliotrope, that allows the wind to blow it hither and thither. For motoring they are a foot broad, of brilliant wools that end in long mouse-like tassels of black— or self-coloured fringe."