ELABORATE SLEEVES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19382, 17 July 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

ELABORATE SLEEVES.

The sleeve and the woman! Type, it appears, has received at the hands of the world's great dress designers immense consideration in connection with the fashionable long sleeves, for the coming spring and summer. Puffs and tucks, pleats and slits, inlets and embroidery—each and all such additions are employed in the elaboration of sleeves in designs extraordinarily diversified. The simple shirt sleeve is, in many cases, no longer permitted to be simple. Decorative effects, skilfully introduced in most novel form, enhance attraction and transform the style. Cut the shirt sleeve, then, that it may no longer remain in that class. Slit it straightly to the elbow. Choose, if you will, a narrow band of embroidery in oriental tonings, such as dull Chinese red, yellows, blue and brown, and set in inlet form on either side of the slit and finish the straight cuff with a band to match.

Smart models include trimmings of buttons combined with tabs, the buttons reaching from the wrist almost to the shoulder on the far side of the sleeve, and the tabs from the wrist half-way to the elbow. Coloured buttons in foreign scheme, utilised tabs accompanying, usually feature fabric in the dominant tone.

Varying such mode is the sleeve cut on straight line to the elbow, widened considerably from this point downward, then caught into a band clasped closely at the wrist. An inlet, handwork or embroidery, from the wrist to the elbow lends both novelty and attraction. The popularity of this style is assured. A full, flowing sleeve, unrestrained at the wrist, is apt to prove most inconvenient. Banded at the wrist, either with

material or with colourfwl embroidery, the chic note conferred by the more ample line is retained without comfort being sacrificed to the whim of jthe moment.

Very alluring is the sleeve in two-piece fabric. The association of fabric in one tone with printed material results most intriguingly. The sleeve in plain, somewhat narrowed, style reaches below the elbow, at which point it' terminates in a full quarter sleeve set in the patterned fabric diagonally and caught in at the wrist with a band to match. The effect is admirable, particularly if the frock be in black silk marocain, silk and wool inarocain, or repp. The distinctive exclusive air imparted by such simple method will lose in charm if colour be seen elsewhere on the gown. It is permissable, however, to accentuate the effect and complete the toilette with smart millinery in velour or velvet in the dominant tone of the patterned material. An under-arm bag, in suede, in colour to match, will still further enhance charm.