What is Worn

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 39, 16 February 1938, Page 15

What is Worn

Very smart are the new contrasted light and dark stocking weave suits, skirts and jackets of white or pastel shades, with blouse of bottle green or wine red, all in 200 mesh silk jersey. Cotton twill jackets are of coloured pin stripe persuasion, red and black, for example, worn with black woollen frocks. Black and white pin-striped Harris linen suits have blue linen blouses. Gloves with each finger of a different colour are but a development of the contrasting front and back vogue in them, though the new models, with fingers of blue, green, yellow and pink, are even more elaborated by having their guantlets covered with sequins. Among the new shapes in millinery is the drummer boy pillbox, with swathe over the top tucking in under the right side and knotted braid across the top of the “peak.” There is also the puffed out turban top of Charles IX. inspiration. Low pillboxes are worn in dark rich velvets, with or without the short eye veil. Toes, painted in different vivid hues, protrude from open sandals for gay parties. Sequins continue to sparkle. You may enliven a black evening dress with a sequin scarf draped around your shoulders like an oldrworld fichu, or you may wear a sequin Juliet cap and three bands of sequins round a full black skirt. Some people prefer to glitter at the waist and wear a corselet belt, at least four inches wide and often with a plastron in front lip to nine inches wide. Short-sleeved bolero tops, entirely embroidered in sequins,, are also attractive worn over black dresses, and your evening wrap may have sequins on its fastenings. The bolero of flat, in shaved Persian lamb, musquash or astrakhan, or black tailored lainage frocks, is designed to be worn beneath the overcoat in severe weather. For sitting abont in places that are not, too warm it is cosy as well as smart. Patou, who has for some time been keen on remaking the waist, has some dresses that almost suggest the old boned stays. His close-fitting sheaths often have the skirt rising into the bodice and cunningly making the normal waistline appear smaller than it ia Jersey, as well as satin crepe, are used for such a gown. Meanwhile the men’s outfitters are vying with the great dress houses in describing their new creations. One lounge suit is labelled: "Very chic, very English, very snob—almost cad.’*