FASHION'S FANCIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19274, 12 March 1926, Page 7

FASHION'S FANCIES.

Grebicho, the tiny pieces of metal which are occasionally vised to edge handbags, note cases, and cigarette cases, are not nearly so general as a millinery trimming in London as they are in Paris, says a well-known writer. Probably this is because they are not nearly so easily procurable lieyo as they are in the trench city. Miss Prise.lla Weigall, whom I mat the other morning with her parents, Sir Archibald and Lady Weigall, Was wearing a black petersham hat trimmed with steel grebicho and " nail heads" arranged iri a pretty pattern, The hat was the shape of a .half melon and the ornamentation went up each sector. Her black fur coat was worn over a fawn dress and her crocodile slices were dy?d black instead of I tie' customary brown. Grocodilo shoes, it- may ho mentioned, are being very widely appreciated for wiutryweather wear. Yards and yards of fuchsia-coloured ribbon, rucked and rucked closely, form two ornamental bands on a new black taffetas frock Miss Mario Tempest wears in that amusing play " Hay Fever." Tho wide front panel of the dresu has a hem of transparent black net. " You. like taffetas, don't you?" I remarked to her. » " Yes; it is such a feminine material, and I like pretty, really feminine clothes," For the same ..<sason Miss Tempest likes floating scarves, and that other fashion .which is having great success at tho monientr—unaven hems, The frock she wears in the last act—it is of georgette and lace—is a lovely colour, just that of mulberries with cream on them. It is no uncommon thing nowadays for women to have a model copied in two or even more colours, a practice which would not have been thought of a few years ago, Ladv Louis Mountbatten is one of those who has had it done with dance frocks—in her case, pretty fluttering chiffon dance dresses. In that cheeriest and most energetic of. revues, "Still Dancing," Delysia has} a chamning pink velvet evening dress embroidered, brodorio Anglaiso fashion, in diamante. The same model .is carried out in a patterned material of dull green, and old gold as a day dress. A deep V-shaped vest is a feature of each bodice, and each skirt; seems qui:o slim and straight, until she walks. Then it is seen that a godet is placed down tho middle of the front panel as an inverted pleat might be. <t