FANTASTIC WHIMS

Evening Star, Issue 20468, 26 April 1930, Page 24

FANTASTIC WHIMS

FLOWERS OF VARIOUS KINDS After having enjoyed a well-earned rest, button holes of artificial flowers aro creeping back again, and are having a great welcome. It would be a pity to lose them, for they can pick up and emphasise colour or give a bright note ‘to a sombre toilette as no other etcetera can do. In London they are wearing some charming buttonieres of crushed Shantung in several shades. These queer crushed flowers look particularly well worn with the fancy flecked tweed coats and suits. Heather buttonholes are quite popular. Sprigs of the natural flower mixed with others of seed pearls in purple and white are seen quite a lot. Flat flowers, beautifully carved in horn aiid coloured, which had a vogue as pendants, are now made into brooches and worn in tho coat lapels as buttonholes. Again, a novel, rather futuristic, posy was composed of many liearl buttons of different sizes. Buttons, from shirt size to those as big as a half-penny, of the old-fashioned four-hole variety, were threaded oh black silk-covered wire for stems. Heal flowers for evening wear are becoming increasingly popular, and this year promises to ho more so than ever. It is a charming fashion, and one with which the florists have every reason to be delighted; as to be effective ■ the sprays should he well made and quite long, reaching from shoulder to waist.