ODDS AND ENDS

Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 25

ODDS AND ENDS

Where shall we wear our flowers? On a close-fitting hat it is a new conceit to have a bunch of small roses at the back just above the nape of the neck. Some berets with brims are ornamented with a “ paving ” of tinv blossoms forming a band on the right side of the forehead. On some hats a flower is worn behind the ear. Little pompon roses are placed in the centre of the neck opening, or in the centre of the scarf how if one is worn. A rose or carnation can also be slipped into the wrist opening. When the sleeves have some fancy arrangement at the dhow this is precisely the right rpot for a flower. The plain neck-line is giving way to lingerie collars of georgette or lawn, which are so fresh and young-looking, and so becoming. Jewellery we must have nowadays, but it must suit the occasion. Jewellery and tailor-mades sound contradictory, but Paris has got over the difficulty by designing an ornament for wearing with tailleurs, made of a very young cocoanut set between two silver plaques. The effect is rather_ like a negro ornament Others combine ivory with valuable wools and crystal with coloured balls or olives.

Interchangeable panels made entirely of small flounces are transferred from one dress to another and are placed either at tho side or the back, according to _ the time of day and tho shape of the skirt.

Red felt berets and red cloth jackets will be popular for seaside and holiday wear with white crepe de chine dresses, or white flat crepe banded with black. Waistbands of gold or silver rope are worn with some sports dresses. They are tied at the right side with clever carelessness, and have a fringed tassel at the ends. Jewels in-the shape of birds made or multi-coloured stones are worn on hats. Large floral patterned silks are increasingly popular for-evening frocks. On some of the most sumptuous the floral design is outlined on the skirt

with graduated pearls, or with gold or nlver thread. Long black lace gloves are threatened for evening wear. They have already been ventured on by some of the smart Englishwomen on _ the Continent, but it is a style that will make its way very gradually, if at all. To recognise to what type one belongs is the first step towards effective dressing. She who should choose models expressing haughty grace and supreme distinction would be a failure in a frock that expresses playful seductiveness. A serene and calm expression of racial distinction is worth seeking for in their clothes by those to whom such things belong by right, but it would be out of place in the case of a modern Miss Impertinent. Are you piquant—dreamy—audacious—subtle? See that your clothes emphasise your characteristics, and above all other things, avoid the commonplace and nondescript. • • _“ Le tour du monde ” is the name given to a. white crepe blouse patterned with / a map of the world printed in red and white. Why not utilise maps of. Paris in this way, asks a practical Frenchman, showing all the tube and railway lines, so as to make it easy for_ ladies from the country to find their way about Paris ? Other novel printed materials are patterned with cocktail glasses, cigarettes, tiny aeroplanes, ancf Lilliputian figures. Nearly all the shirt-crepe dresses are worn with a narrow leather, deerskin, or even woven belt around the waist or the hips. Latest fashion advices from Paris tell us that an ear of wheat is at present the favourite motif for decorative designs. It is pi’inted, or painted, small or large, on silk fabrics, and its outline is woven into woollen materials. Mother-of-pearl wheat ears with silver or gold leaves quiver on the brim of the capelines worn at important race meetings. A bouquet of these ears is pinned on the shoulder of the chiffon frock. Long sterilised wheat ears are put into jardinieres. Lace, with its transparency and fineness, is the fabric most suitable to the modern dress. Made with boating panels it lends a- tall, slim appearance ta the wearer, gives suppleness and lightness, and a desirable fluidity to the outline.

Sleeveless frocks are definitely with us again, but little coats of the same material accompany each frock, and are worn when it i* desired to cover the arms. Some of the tennis frocks are made without backs, like so many of the new bathing suits, so that the sunburnt effect for the evening decolletage shall ho uniform.