STRAWS IN FASHION’S BREEZE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 15

STRAWS IN FASHION’S BREEZE.

A iiew idea is an expanding bracelet of morocco leather with a small steel watch set at a convenient angle—it is ideal to wear with tweeds, as it is plain and unobtrusive. Give a Paris touch to a plain evening frock with a little bolero of multicoloured tulle strips mounted on black tulle. Cover your navy blue frock with a blue-spotted pink foulard swallow-tail bolero coat, and add Suzy’s flower-bed hat mased with tiny flowers. An amusing beach ensemble for next summer consists of a tightly-fitted striped twill frock with a high neck, an amusing poke bonnet of raffia, and the new clog-like sandals with soles several inches high, made of wood or cork. A checked tailor-made is worn with a double-breasted shantung silk waistcoat, cut like a man’s. A navy blue and white spotted crene afternoon gown is trimmed with the same crepe in claret and white, the latter forming a wide cummerbund sash and .a waist-length cutaway coat. For early spring days, when an ensemble rather than a frock is indicated, a charming model has been designed in a becoming blue and white colour scheme —a fingertip coat covers a figured frock, which is cut on very simple lines, with shirring across the front to give a slender waistline. For those who appreciate a litlte bit of fashion nonsense there are new flower toques composed of mixed anemones, two shades of ribbon, and veil-

nig. A fairy-like evening frock is made of several colours superimposed. The materials used are chiffons in pastel shades.

Fabrie hats are in the news, and particularly turbans draped in Oriental fashion—they are very effective made of chiffon-weight jersey in four or more vivid contrasting colours. Berets, now a perennial favourite, will be especially fashionable for spring in white or coloured petersham. Sometimes they are pierced with a quill and swept forward, or else they are covered with veiling, which ties in a fluffy bow behind.

Miniature letters of the alphabet in gold and silver sprinkle the v aiikles and insteps of the newest stockings for evening wear. To give the foot that slender, rhythmic grace, wear swathed, perforated bands swinging upwards into a winged vamp. For high altitude flying wear a wool suit with a casual pink tweed jacket, a pleated black skirt, and a pink and black silk blouse.