A POPULAR VOGUE.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 15

A POPULAR VOGUE.

colours and in different styles. There arc a dozen different ways of draping it round the neck and shoulders, and it looks awfully well swathed round the waist and' drooping on one hip. The scarf that matches the hat band is another distinct fashion, and these little things are tremendously useful to give variety to a limited wardrobe.

Tho "younger set" are very faithful to tho slim stockinette suits or trim cOat and skirt. Very simple cloths are "de rigour" until tea-time, but the frocks at night are as beautiful as any seen during tho London season, for yachting is not the only attraction. In tho evenings there is a great deal of entertaining by hostesses with houses on tho shore, and the Yacht Club ball aud dances on the guard ships arc among tho smartest, aud certainly the jollicst, affairs in tho whole of a debutante season. Some of tho ultra smart evening gowns are almost backless, which, at a little distance, leave one wondering just how they aro held lip

at all. Then in direct contrast, a lovely fair girl who is one of this season's brides wore a frock.of pale pinK tulle with a short, befrilled skirt and a bodice carried up to the base of the ueck at the back, and she looked like an adorable little Columbine. These frilly dresses are very noticeable at the end of the season, and are promised much popularity in the autumn. At the Berkeley Hotel I saw several evening frocks made this way, and later in the week quite a noticeable number at the tea dance, the only difference being that tho majority of the afternoon frocks had long sleeves, and all were very short.

A little friend of mine,.who has been gathering clothes in Paris and spent two weeks in London en route for America, tells me that after wandering over the Continent she has seen* 1 quite the best dressed women in London—and by

far the prettiest girls. This has been remarked to me so many times this season, and verily I believe our girls grow prettier every year; I think their frank, fresh, wholesome beauty is what appeals so to strangers. As this little girl happens to be an undisputed beauty herself she can afford to be generous in her appreciation, and she dresses with exquisite taste, but hardly ever deviates from her three chosen colours—black, beige, and navy.

One charming navy outfit that Bhe chose in Paris has a frock of crepe de Chine with simple hemstitchery decorating the bodice. The V-neck is softened with a narrow draped scarf which ties in a bow at the Bide of the neck, with long, slim ends reaching to the waist. The skirt is put into a slightlyraised waistline, and the front has a sort of apron effect of three plisse frills. These frills are plisse three-quarter of of the way down and then break out plain, which gives them the effect of full flounces, and is tremendously decorative. The coat worn with this frock was in finest navy rep, which material is having a great vogue. The sleeves are Kaglan.with a sort of inverted pleat stitched right down from the neck to the wrist, and the coat has a lot of fine pin-tucks across the back of the shoulders, which terminate with a narrow, upstanding collar. The lining was beige crepe de Chine, and perched on the side of the collar was Chanel's very newest flower—a chicory chrysanthemum of stiffened beige crepe de Chine, so called because the petals are cut to resemble the ragged edges of chicory lettuce—and it certainly has a very light and dainty effect. She wears with this ensemble a pair of severely plain navy kid shoes. These are now tremendously smart, being the only coloured shoe to survive the season. The reds and greens were soon discarded by women of taste.

Handbags are once more becoming very ornamental, and a number of the new pochettes carried in the daytime show exquite handwork of the petitpoint variety, while the very latest evening bag is in white moire silk entirely covered with brilliants. These are made both in the square bag shape and the pochette, and run from five inches square to about nine or ten inches long, and are exceedingly dainty, and not nearly so expensive as they look. , RUTH SIBI/EY.