FANTASTIC WHIMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20538, 12 April 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

FANTASTIC WHIMS.

FLOWERS OF VARIOUS KINDS.

After having enjoyed a well-earned rest, button holes of artificial flowers aro creeping back again, and aro having a great welcome.

It would bo a pity to loso them, for they can pick up and emphasiso colour or give a bright note to a sombro toilette as no other etcetera can do.

In London they aro wearing some charming buttonieres of crushed Shantung in several shades. These queer crushed flowers look particularly well worn with tho fancy flocked tweed coats and suits. Heather buttonholes aro quito popular. Sprigs of tho natural flower mixed with others of seed pearls in purplo and whito aro seen quite a lot. Flat flowers, beautifully carved in horn and coloured, which had a voguo as pendants, aro now mado into broochos and worn in tho coat lapels as buttonholes. Again, a novel, rather futuristic, posy was composed of many peavl buttons of different sizes. Buttons, from shirt sizo to thoso as big as a half-penny, of tho oldfashioned four-holo variety, wero threaded on back'silk-covered wire for stems.

Real flowers for evening wear aro becoming increasingly popular, and this year promises to bo moro so than ever. It is a charming fashion and ono with which the florists havo every reason to bo delighted; as to bo effective the sprays should bo well mado and quito long, reaching from shoulder to waist.