SEASON OF COLOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22983, 10 March 1938, Page 5

SEASON OF COLOUR

n gaily printed silks ' SOME QUAINT HAT' DESIGNS uniform flatness a feature

JJY BARBARA

gnowwhite and the seven dwarfs hare invaded London. Although we are gtill to see them on the screen their presence is very evident. They cavort on blouses, career round hats, climb cravats and curvette 011 evening dressen. The windows of our largest, and grandest store are full of them gnowwhite dolls anil toy dwarfs dance with glee in and out the frocks, hats, bags and bolts of silk printed with the jutics of their counterparts. Tht; gay and vihrant colours of the prints fire reflected in the hats they trim. Ivlts in emerald green, butcher blue and |>illar-box red liave appliqued dwarfs on their upturned brims, are jwathed "it'll scarves of seven-dwarf print, or sport a little cluster of dwarfs on the tops of their crowns. An interesting feature of these hats is their almost uniform flatness. Saucer-shaped or pill-box, pan-cake beret or tambourine, they perch flatly over the brow. But this is not a thin flatness. Brims are sometimes as much as two inches thick. The printed scarves which trim them come often from under the brim to cover the back hair, and tie perhaps under the chin. Boivs under the chin are popular on practically every sort of headgear from cocktail hats to sports caps. Recently I saw -ho latest addition to the millinery world —a knitted pixie cap which has two long knitted ends that tie under the chin and tuck into the neck like a cravat, or alternatively, can be swathed round the head like a turban. Ideal 'or motoring, these little caps are a sure protection against head-colds, and are decorative and amusing at the same time. Try knitting one for yourself, copying my illustration. Never have I seen such brilliant colours, such boldness of design, or such originality of thought in printed silks. Can-can girls with fluttering skirts in orang>? itnd crimson, electric blue and emerald green, kick their legs on black and ground prints. Suns and moons, crimson and red, shine on bright • blue grounds. Great whitecapped sea-waves sweep across bluegreen silk; and mosaic prints in lovely brick-reds, turquoise blues and green:, paint vague pointillist pictures of tall, haloed figures. Stripes are the most popular of a!'.. Extremely brilliant in colour, they are mixed by genius. Inch-wide slats of blue, crimson, purple and turquoise green sweep down a heavy-weight niarocain—kandy stripes, they are called. Narrow stripes, both straight and wavy in banana veliows, hazy mauves i.nd sage greens, .run horizontally 7 across a hf.iry woollen. Woven woollen jerseys

sport stripes of navy, crimson and white, purple, blue and green. Crazy lacy xyoollens are barrel-striped, and the latest laciest linens have sugar stripes of lolly-pink, ")aby blue and lettuce green. There are pin-stripos in grey or white on all the-new suit flannels, or shadow stripes an inch or two wide in a darker shade of the body colour. Always let the stripes on your tailored suit run Vertically unless you are very tall and slender. Sage-green, blue-green, purplish blue and greeny-grey are the latest flannel suiting colours, and the stripes on them are if ten as much as ttvo inches apart. A clover trick is to have your pockets (if thev are patch ones) or your flaps (if the pockets arc inset) with the stripes running horizontally. Practically the only rival to the plain shadow or pin-striped suit is the oik 1 which has a wide-apart white cheek line running through it. All the new suit en,its are cut much longer than we have seen them for some time. One expects tc> see worn with these suits the heavily veiled straw hats the earliest motorists —one not ° n ly expects to see them, but in [act does see tliein everywhere- — ants girt about with long and trail">K veilings of chiffor or tulle. Their Miirts may be straight but their cut J'lfl fit are such as to make the most "Uttering of tea-gowns appear almost ®as(?uline in comparison, so exquisitely f.Oo they flatter and reveal the feminine hues of the figure. i| : * Still more evidence of the utter fem- [| of everything - ;his year is the , flovvored woollens shown for blouses and |f. day frocks. Some of them reminiscent 15 of the Tyrol have prim scattered peasposies. Others are wild splurges of j ex travngantly coloured massed blosand still others, tossed about with •%S?. w * n g 'flowers, are woven in lacy •Sect.