DRESS HINTS.

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1919, Page 1

DRESS HINTS.

Among the new models in coats and skirts shown is one which hails from Paris. It is a pearl grey with the new scarf-effect collar finished with dainty colourings, straps and buttons on the coat, New straight skirt with panel, buttons and ibelt. An evening dress in navy georgette over lemon coloured satin has a longwaisted effect, produced by the folded and interlaced belt. It is trimmed with coloured beads worked on satin. Some of the new silks for matrons —in mole, navy, nigger, and bot + le green—depend on no frivolity of ornaments. They are severely plain, made long--waisted with smart hip tunic and large pockets. Navy and tan, navy and sand colour, navy and fawn are all very fa. vourite combinations of colours in the new costumes. Panniers are to be seen on most of the new dresses, often quite exaggerated and stiffened out (a snare to full figures). in all shades, from bottle to the lightest lettuce, is being worn in England, a peculiar dull shade of jade green being very becoming. Coats of oyster-coloured cloth or satin are very fashionable, the lines being quite severe, the only ornament being the scarf, or shawl collar. An American model hat in navy and gold brocade, with gold tissue and navy ospreys, is named the "Baltimore," and "Versailles" is the name given to "a model in black liseret trimmed with a saxe blue glycerine ostrich feather*.