FRILLS, FADS AND FOIBLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 August 1928, Page 17

FRILLS, FADS AND FOIBLES.

VOGUES AND VAGARIES.

It is doubtful whether the little lightweight, lull-length coat, for wear os or any number of “odd” 'frocks,, has ever received so much attention as now. Thoiigh in many cases these useful garments are almost exact replicas of last year’s models, straight or tailored, with the exception of a slightly wider sleeve at the cuff and a trifle more suggestion of swing in the cut, there are points that mate for novelty among other examples of the newest models. They are cut more loosely, and they show collars either of the military variety or finished with a san of the coat material. Some models show embroidery of .the same colgur as the coat, put on, however, with consoling restraint and discretion. A welcome reassurance, as last season, saw some embroidered coat effects that were anything but retrained! Very smart is the simple frock that is a sort 6 standby 7, as it. were among the “odds.” A frock more particularly designed on ensemble lines with the coat, often identical in material; at all e cuts identical in hue.

Very misleading is the air of engaging simplicity that characterises the nevyest tailor-made suits, A short jacket and a plain wrap-over skirt of navy gaberdine, for instance, are patterned all over witli lines of white stitching about one and a quarter inches apart, a device which imparts infinitely more subtle smartness than is attained by 7 tlie use of the orthodox white-striped navy material. The handwork tells! This suit jacket links in front with a couple of buttons —a prevailing mode—and is worn with a white satin waistcoat blouse and a navy and white hat.

There are less costly suit!j devoid of decoration, but depending for success on perfection of material and cut. Stockinette three pieces, by the way, are still shown everywhere. These are plain, save for the jumpers, which either have embroidery worked on them or are fashioned of embroidered material.

In jumper materials, once again, a vast amount of metal thread is used. A typical smart pattern consists in woven zig-zag. lines of gold alternating with colour. Sucli a jumper is characteristically 7 allied to a neat woollen skirt of neutral tint, with a short jacket to match.