GOLD AND SILVER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1937, Page 18

GOLD AND SILVER

] STREAKED MATERIALS

/The latest fabrics show new methods erf adding streaks and splashes of all colours to dark weaves (states a London exchange). Stitchery gives an impression of different shadings; a streak running through a material gives a similar effect. Braids in old and new composition, like fringes and strange • borderings, suggest a colour story. Embroideries, from soutache fo sequins, have been to the favqur they^enjoyed at the beginning of the century. - .

New York, English, and French designers ■ exploited to advantage many self-coloured embroideries in the early autumn. The vogue was. taken up quickly into a medley •of lovely colours in woolwork, beads, glamorous gems, and sequins, so resulted a season in which trimmings, weaves, and handwork played a part. ' •'• Dusted gold and silver ,i, weaves introduced in black; an:» dark'woollen materials are still popular. These gleaming touches do much to relieve the deadness of black, and yet allow its note of distinction to remain. A black.ensemble of 'wool flecked with gold or silver-dust can be worn at all times and places. With a plain coat of fabric or fur and a satin cap it is smart from the lunch hour' till supper or cinema party. For evening wear the all-black satin frock.can have a little embroidered jacket of- chenille and soutache, studded with bright beads. Short basqued coatees' are attractive, in stripes of shaded sequins. The newer ways of treating sequins and coloured embroidery is always gay andrpleasing, specially in these little coatees, and there- is nothing garish or overdressed -about them.