CHARMING FASHION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 17

CHARMING FASHION

FLOWER HEADDRESSES

Headdresses have returned, and the favourite of the moment, states a London writer, is a posy top-knot of flowers poised on the front of the head and secured by an invisible elastic. All kinds of flowers are used, some being chosen to tone with or match the frock, and others to give a rococo note. For the latter there are silver or gold flowers, and a posy of silver kid gardenias or gold roses can be worn with both coloured frocks and lame gowns. A miniature tiger lily with silvered leaves, a spray of stephanotis with grcem leaves, small edelweiss mixed with blue gentians, blue hyacinths with gold leaves, and tiny rosebuds with iorget-me-nots are favourites in flower top-knots. There is also a good deal of jasmine, which makes a light and pretty head posy, and a bright red lacquered stephanotis has been chosen for wearing with a red gown. Nature's colours do not suit silk and velvet flowers are dyed with remarkable horticultural effects. ' Flower hair-slides for wearing at the side of the head are another variation. A pretty slide made with a true-lovers' knot in narrow blue velvet ribbon is mounted with forget-me-not on silver cord. Another is made of velvet pansies and moss-roses. Other small flowers are arranged on slides and invisible hair-grips. The flower-slides are always chosen to match the frock. Small flat half-wreaths of flowers worn to the front of the head are also in fashion, and are usually made of oldiashioned roses. Huge clusters of flowers are being worn on frocks for afternoon and evening. The shoulder spray has almost disappeared, and the new massed clusters are worn in front of the gown and sometimes quite high to the throat. Collars of flowers made flat like a necklace are being worn on velvet afternoon frocks; one of these is in large shaded malmaisons in velvet and linen and is worn in front of the dress. Massed clusters of old-fashioned flowers are frequent with evening frocks, and such flowers as blue and mauve scabious, ranuuculus, love-in-the-mist, mignonette, pansies, gentians, and cherry-pie are grouped to tone with light and dark gowns.