BIRD PETTICOATS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

BIRD PETTICOATS.

WOMEN WEARING SNAKE HATS AND STOCKINGS.

Woman’s fancy for strange pets has led to her adoption of imitation pets on almost all items of her dress, lie newest s:lk petticoat which is now being shown in London shops is ornamented with brilliant-hued bards around the flounce. These are printed in silk on the petticoat, and include fowls, peacocks and parrots about a foot in length.

The pries of a bird petticoat is 12s . • , , ls “Id in many shades—white, pink, blue, mauve and others—en each tiaed bird is vividly por-

With the peacock petticoat the peacock stocking may be worn. This hosiery has a large silk peacock embroidered halfway up the leg in the mrds gorgeous colouring. The sltorkstockmg is another freak article of women s dress

Tlie snake hat has been sold recently in London, and the wearer can don k k S u j stockings to harmonise with her headgear. A specimen of the snake stocking in bl’ck silk is ornamented with a large red snake of sequins. This could be worn also for evenings with the giitterlh?w nak<> ? j U ’ ’? an(3eau which if being shown considerably- ® Many fans are’exhibited which appear as a large peacock or fowl, witli a >u k fin K Sh ’ whikt are painted with numbers of birds. ®, b “ t terfly lady, who wears a butterfly hat, brooch or shiny butterflies in ’’er na> r ’ can have butterfly handker-ch-ef’s- These are sold at from four shillings a half dozen. Not inappropriately, the snake 7’'’ h n « n « °f the new S 1 i llal l? kerch l efs -- 1 These have calours bwtles embroidered in bright