FRILLS, FADS AND FOTBLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 6

FRILLS, FADS AND FOTBLES.

VOGUES AND VAGARIES. (By Madame Jeanne Varrez.) Lots of afternoon frocks are fashioned from delightful crepes, crepe Juliette, crepe Georgette, crepe romaine, crepe de chine. A powder blue romaine gown was trimmed with painted suede—an indescribably lovely ensemble. On a frock of . Juliette crepe in a bewitching parma shade, was introduced a now stylo pleating, Vandyke manner. And nearly every frock in tho new collections shows a flared hem, or ftilness introduced in on e way or another. A veryfew have flat backs and r/ery full tabliers in front, set on the slant. Innumerable floating panels are seen, flat and narrow, as well as vandyked hems edged with ordinary frills. Many of the new evening dresses ‘feature’ tunic effects. They are exquisitely graceful in their new genre, with the fulness commencing below the hips. The line of the waist is determined by the placing of the pleats, gatners or pretty flutings. Sometimes, in Paris, the waist is worn high, though the general trend so far is definitely’ low. But there arg all sorts of ways of (changing the position of lh 0 waist. A tunic of satin or chiffon, made on full lines, may be drawn into gathers, high or low, and allowed to flare out over a slim cut undcrshcath. One sees side panels placed at a perfectly normal waistline, whence they hang straight til! they near th R hem; then they full bewitchingly into flutes, or are ’flared’ with j a border of pelt or feather. Very novel and pretty Is,the newcomer to the lingerie department; ai corset or combination brassiere and belt (parried out in silver tissue. An ideal fabric, since its peculiar substance gives all the necessary support without boning. j Multi-coloured ‘Romany’ or gipsy sashes of tissue are a new note on black frocks, which now are seldom seen without a touch of colour. | , -Amid the Influx of increasingly fern- , ' inine modes tho ope. or two mannish fashions that still persist ar e accentuating themselves most amusingly. I Ciuite dandyish and foppish is the neat black suit with skirt kilted in i front, showing a wide black kid waistbelt edged with white and finished in. front with a smart buckle. Little coat , fronts, too, com e from the underarm 1 seams and are edged with two-inch bands of kid. A narrow, fairly deep square-cut neck reveals a dicky in one with a stand-up white collar! The 'collar of th e frock is lied with a narrow ribbon round the white collar. And, of course,’ we have the'monocle I and the Etbir crop And the gabderila in the buttonhole.

The new supple velvet, in a soft coral shade, is the material chosen for this pretty evening: wrap; it is lined with black satin, and has a padded collar also in black satin.