MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1933, Page 9

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

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FASHION BAN ON FRILLS? While summer lasts women will cling to the white range, which, like black, includes so many tints. _lt has been a white season, and having proved amazingly becoming for the older as well as for the young woman, his colour' will, in future, H Ke _ blac.v, have a foremost place ni ‘.ail say torial schemes,(writes lion. Mrs 0. W. Foiester in the London ‘Daily Telegraph”). . , Petunia-purple and geranium-red arc used for exclusive models. A iress of geranium-red in crinkly-crepe was worn with a short coat of satin. ihe top of the frock was inserted with •i new blonde lace and the wrap worn over it was of velvet to tone, collared with white ermine. The severe style of the Princess frock is the best choice for these i.cli clours. Petunia silk sounds matronly, but cut with a youthful air and ■plainly moulded, it is very striking, especially when slashed with cerise velvet, a gorgeous shade that also ■ rovides a tailored evening coat w.ihout any fur. Ruby-red will also be an autumn favourite; in fact, I predict that the •Jell, bright shades will be even more fashionable than the Empiie gieens and yellows, though these will also appear in the trousseaux of the later year. Some designers declare that there win be a decisive effort to restore these richer colours and fabrics. Even in organdie, fashion has certainly been flirting with the more compli-

cated fashions of the late ’nineties, especially for evening wear, as well as the modes of the earlier part of that century. Even the styles peculiar to the forties are used. In every case frills and furbelows are dispensed with, although autumn fashions will suggest the quaint vogues so connected with the date of frills and fal-lals. This is another instance of the cleverness of the modern trend in fashion. Interest is aroused by a model recalling a period and yet it is shorn of its trappings as to become a very wearable affair. A DISTINCTIVE AIR Among other quaint revivals which can look well when partially tailored are floral satins and silks. They are a very feminine fabric to be treated so severely! For afternoon and scmi-formal frocks these small floral, lather richly coloured patterns on cither a light or dark ground, have a curiously distinctive look. These figured stuffs must be made up very simply, fitting to the knees and finishing in a slightly ruched cut-out flounce. With this can be worn a coat of plain satin in the colour of the groundwork. A long coat of chiffon or organdie also looks well over plain taffeta frocks. For abroad there are gaily coloured flowered taffeta frocks, but it is smart Io have a tailored coat of silk muslin or even a thin wool in a plain and darker shade. For some time 1 have been of the opinion that the cape vogue was passing. It has had its graceful day, and has attained the height of perfection this season. There is no doubt that the fashion will come back, but for early autumn and chilly days ahead the coat in all its new versions is a more practical proposition. Drown is a coining favourite , mixed with black, instead of white. (trey also is a firm second worn will) a black hat. Navy and white and navy and green will have nautical friends, and hero wq shall see red again, that darker red that goes so well with navy. The dark pilot-loth lined and faced red is good at sea. MEASURING THE BRIDE. / A quaint ceremony is observed at I Roydon, in Norfolk. Over three hun’died years ago the Lord of the Manor bequeathed the sum of <£looo, he interest to be voted annually to provide dowries for four brides. By the terms of the bequest the money bus to be divided between the youngest, the eldest, the shortest and the tallest brides married each year in the parish church. After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom proceed to the vestry to sign the register. The bride is then measured by the officiating minister. At. the end of the year the marriage records are examined and the dowries are awarded to those, qualified io receive them.

PLUSH FOR AUTUMN HATS. (By a Paris Fashion Expert). Velvet seems to forecast autumn millinery shapes in swathed turbans with short pointed puckish crowns. I'omo felt hats urge a narrowbrimmed stove-pipe style —not too high in form and with a tuck rounu Jr-, top of the crown which has a flat feather motif set perkily at one side. Lively reds, petunia, nasturtium, rusts, and a tone of ruby red are leading colours. Height is introduced at the back in most instances with the nasturtium ■.rnlvol, turbans showing ridges to achieve effects through quilted ma-chine-stitched surfaces. These small hats crown at the moment long garden party frocks of patterned mousselines—or graduated tones of the colour. An Edwardian influence is conveyed in fitted lines and full hems with velvet ruchings or velvet sashes with flat bustle bows. The new Agnes hat of shaggj 7 Esquimaux persuasion is creating interest. It is an effective peaked toque in a new plush that resembles tow or cocoanut fibre, and will almost completely cover the hair. Petunia velvet looks attractive with stone grey. There is an air of the Cossack coat line about two new half-length velveteen slack overcoats —one in black and one in red. Both have line embroideries of milk-white beads through the shoulder seams.

feminine gourmets SHOWING MEN HOW TO EAT In Paris recently twenty-five women gourmets of Paris showed mere man how to eat. They were the members of the Belle Perdrix Society—literally the “Pretty Partridge” Society—who are the rival organisation to the famous men’s eating club Le Giand Perdreau. . Once a year the ladies give a banquet to which fifty male guests aie invited. The menu is chosen with the greatest care by Madame Groci, the founder of the society, and everything is done to impress the guests with woman’s excellent taste in food.

For the Frenchman is hard to convince. He is the world’s finest gouimet. And he is convinced that not only can women not cook, but that they also cannot eat. No woman ever sets food within the sacred circle of the Grand Perdreau Club; such would be sacrilege in the eyes of the members. That is why Madame Groci six years ago, tired of the boasting of her husmand and his friends about the wonderful luncheons they had attended, decided to found a women’s society. Each month the Belle Perdrix gives an exclusively feminine luncheon in one of the small and select restaurants of Paris known for its excellent cooking, and then there is an annual banquet with male guests. HATS ARE CHANGING. For early autumn there is a new felt “sailor” style, with a higher and squarer crown, a compromise, in fact, between the latest Homburg, the oldfashioned country gentlemen’s hat, and the Robespierre l.Sth century ; hope (says a. London fashion writer). 'Hi-.' milliners arc ingenious in suggesting a semi-sporting air to quite ckguni simple styles. This new sailor in ;• lu.- felt of lighter summery weight has the square crown dented into softness, and the brim also is unstiffened. Round the crown is a petersham ribbon, finishing with a quaint tab, or original bow. This, with the latest “cap” model, will strike the smart tailored note for early autumn. Some of the summery hats in cotton and pique.gave an inkling that the higher—and squarer—crown would have a place in the autumn. Also in the usual course of fashion’s cycle we might expect a change from the platelike shallowness which was rendered 'wearable by the addition of deep bandeaux. Four-cornered toques in faille or velvet are somewhat fashioned on the lines of tho college cap, a violent change from the cone-love crowns. Tho four square corners, however, bend softly to any shape, and sometimes a net veil or floral trimming at the back.