SOMETHING NEW AND LOVELY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

SOMETHING NEW AND LOVELY.

FLOWER NECKLACES.

Necklaces of real flowers are fashionable for evening, and look very charming worn by young girls. Debutantes at recent dances abroad given in their honour have worn a flower necklace instead of carrying the more conventional posy. Hie most attractive of the necklaces are mado of delphiniums. Perfect flowers are chosen, and they are wired together in such a way that they lie flat round the neck. The necklaces are long reaching to below the V of the bodice, but they are not too long or they would crush when dancing. Rose buds can also be used very charmingly for flower necklaces; one young girl, at a recent party who was frocked in white, wore a necklace of dephiniums, pink roses and two or three scabious daisies grouped in front to look like rather big beads. The florist can make thes? necklaces in the really professional manner, but there is no reason why the young girl with nimble fingers should not make a necklace for herself. it would be as well to experiment with two or three necklaces beforehand. On the day. of the dance the flowers should be picked early in the morning, their stalks scraped—and burnt if necessary —and then put into water and left in a cool, dark spot. The necklace should be made late in the afternoon; when finished it should bo sprayed with water and laid flat on oiled paper and covered with oiled paper until it is wanted.. It, is .as well to carry it in a box to the dance and put it on just before the dance commences. These necklaces look all the better with simple frocks, and are specially charming with white frocks. ■