FASHION'S FANCY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

FASHION'S FANCY.

A notably popular movement is the fringe skirt, says a writer in an exchange. This is exploited in many materials, but is at its best in georgette, each narrow strand hand-made and double. Firmer fabrics are jirst cut and left raw. The result as the wearer moves is a subtle swaying that is totally unexpected when sho is in repose. A pale beige georgette, arranged after this manner, with long, plain, severe bodice and scarf, boasted for its sole decorative relief a great gauze rose on one hip in pastel shades of pink and mauve. There is, too, quite an appreciable amount of fur being used, on both opaque and transparent materials. A straight coat of heavy-weight bois do rose georgette carried a deep hem of soft fur dyed exactly to tone; a deep rose-coloured chiffon gown being trimmed with bands of some equally soft dark fur, and an absinthe green georgette two-piece with palest grey. The majority of these summer furs are dyed and are silky ;.nd long-haired in appearance. As to their origin, the. less said the better; while monkey fur fringe continues to find favour, mostly in black and magpie mixtures. Fur and feathers are both out for recognition, collars of ostrich feather, and of coq and dyed chicken feathers occurring on many of the wraps. For the oft or dull days at Ascot, if there are any, a material assured of success is the new silk alpaca. This is quite) unlike any fabric hitherto seen, and bears little or no resemblance to the erstwhile resisting wool alpaca, nor yet to any known type of silk. It is quite a thing of itself, soft and silky and sufficiently pliable to pleat and flare as now decreed, and simply ideal for tho fashionablo twopiece suit.