LACE.
Lace is the most feminine of ail fabrics. IA woman's most tender and intimate memories—her mother's soft draperies, her wedding veil, a baby's christen-ing-robe—-are wrapped in old lace. But fis a medium for dresses it was considered too lieaAry and ageing until modern' designers _ contrived to make it the fairy fabric it is now.
Cendres da roses is the most popular lint for coloured lace—a dim, brownpink, very suggestive of (he ashes of roses; and next to it. come flesh colour, pearl, and magnolia. Some dressmakers are using vivid colours, but, as usual, black lace triumphs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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97LACE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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