SPICE AND PIQUANCY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 90, 12 October 1940, Page 17

SPICE AND PIQUANCY

HORS D'OEUVRES OF STYLE

SAUCE FOR JADED OUTFITS

The art of adding a few newj garments or accessories to your costumes in preference to "doing over" old garments is as different as making hors d'oeuvres to hash. Hors d'oeuvres are appetisers, tasty, colourful, and pixilating to the palate. Hash is uninteresting even to the point of being boring, and this is a state of affairs as distasteful in food as it is in clothes. So let it be hors d'oeuvres every time and let us take a tip from the chef next time we want a few new recipes for chic! j To add spice and piquancy to wintry looking dresses it is a smart plan to lop off the sleeves and add a brand new coatee, bolero, or toque of challis printed cotton or light wool.

a happy habit of appearing to foreshortening even the most lengthy underpinnings. On shoes with a wood heel the bow is oft-times tied up with what appears to be a carved wooden knot. Evening shoes as delectable as Cinderella's, are of a plastic substance like glass in appearance called Vinylite. At the moment your favourite 1 actresses in Hollywood are wearing dancing slippers of this variety but Jno doubt we shall see something of the same sort in this country before long if the material concerned has more than novelty to recommend it. HATS IN A NET. Hats are all caught in a net! Some of the new models have crowns.that are no more than net turbans attached to wide roll-away brims. Schiaparelli, the Parisian designer now in New York, advocates stinging pink for many of her new millinery modes, not the least of these being her skull-clasping turbans of fine striped lisle and silkstocking jersey. For girls who wear their hair long or shoulder length, there is a new way of wearing sports turbans and bandeaux. It is to tie them under the hair at the back but very low over the temples in the front. A LA DICK WHITTINGTON. Further sauce for a jaded outfit is the wearing of a smart pochette or hand-bag. For sports wear, a new notion is to tie your cosmetics and small change into a silk handkerchief and swing it over your shoulder on the end of a walking stick. This is what Dick Whittington did to arouse centuries of comment. Awning striped canvas carries on its old function of keeping the sun in its place when it is made up into very dashing hats, bonnets and parasols. It is also seen for handbags and shoes with suede covered wedge heels and these are a sure recipe for masses of dash throughout the slimmer. M.R.