TRANSPARENT TWEED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

TRANSPARENT TWEED.

FOR EVENING WEAR. SCOTLAND'S SURPRISE. Tweed for the evening. It is transparent, too! That is one of Scotland's surprises for the spring. It is surely the lightest weight tweed that oyer came from across tho Border. The material I saw, states tho writer, was in white and so loosely woven as to give a lacc-like effect. Threads were gathered tightly together in daisy-knots on a dainty web background. It hung in beautifully soft folds, and was to bo simply mado up, cut with long gracoful lines. It is also dyed in a variety of shades that you can wear in the earlier hours of tho day. There are other novelties of colour, design and texture that promise to revolutionise our country clothes, giving them an air of gaiety such as they have nover known. Nature herself will almost bo put to shamo by some of the new schemes. Tweed manufacturers have been juggling miraculously with dyes and looms, and now tho results of their ingenious enterprise are being seen in tho advance rolls that have already found their way to the creators of British fashions. One of tho thicker roversiblo tweeds has at least four shades in it, ranging from pure white to the almost black nigger. On ono side pale beige and white predominate, whilo on tho other they merely

" show through "■ two shades of dark brown. There is a daffodil yellow tweed that is the thickness of marocaln. To be used with it there is one more coarsely woven of this same yellow entwined with the palest beige. Blues and greens of all shades abound. In fact, whatever " your spring colpur" happens to be you can buy it in a Scottish tweed.