FASHIONS FORECAST

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 February 1932, Page 14

FASHIONS FORECAST

NOVEL JUMPER EFFECT. .SLEEVELESS AND BUTTONED. Rather a novel effect is obtained by Judith Wood for one of her sports suits which she will wear in the Paramount pictures, “ Girls About 'Town.”

The suit- is of light-weight crepe-de-chine in two shadings—nut brown and fawn. The one-piece dress is of the brown toning, with stitched box pleats back and front, and deep cuffs of fawn. Over this iMiss 'Wood pulls a fawn sleeveless jumper which is buttoned up with brown buttons at the neckMUFFS A NUISANCE, The fashions seen up to date, show no signs of anything which may offend the suseeptbilities of the modern woman. True, she does not appear to have many. For example, she will still sacrifice a good deal for following a fashion which happens to take her fancy—even her comfort, as witness the short evening jackets so popular last winter, and still to be seen. But she refuses to tolerate anything which she considers might be a nuisance,- and under this heading she has, apparently, placed muffs. Although the fashion for the last year seems to indicate a revival of the muff, not half a dozen have shown up to date. But it is impossible to ignore the fact that our clothes are rapidly becoming more and more complicated. Wo are already far away from the little chemise frock of a few seasons ago, and now these new fashions require a profound tech-

mquo. Their coining sounds the death-knell for years to come of the easy-to-make frock; umbrella-skirts, with their complicated gores and tight little jackets and bodices, and all the rest, will require the services of expert dressmakers.

EVENING BERET. Some of the smartest women are making great efforts to bring the sequin evening beret into 'fashion. Two or three Parsiennes have been, appearing at night clubs lately in bright green caps worn on the backs of their heads. Whether they are kept on by '.suction or invisible hairpins, I am not prepared to say. Most of the women wearing them have had rather strange unhappy expressions.

’Flowers are everywhere in the new millinery modes, and so are feathers. They perch beneath and above 'the brims, and .they encircle the tricot tartuns which perch far back on their wearers’ heads.

The white feather is shown in a goo'd many hats, that is, the trimming of tiny whife feathers, cither bunches of little quills, no.t more than two inches long, or a more sweeping soft feather placed low at the side, towards the back.

To accompany the more formal suits or ensembles, the hats like those worn in the days of the Empress Eugenie, arc liked. Perched high on ithe head, with a delightfully flirtatious tilt over one eye, they are often 'trimimed with feathers, and are extremely flattering when worn by the right persons in just the right way. The many patent-leather accessories in the way of belts and 'purses, have called forth the hat of shiny leather trimmed with cire satin ribbon.