Fashion Emulates Covent Garden

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

Fashion Emulates Covent Garden

Flowers on Everything "FLOWERS, fruit, vegetables, and —" even the visiting bluebottles, are to be seen on hats this summer, says a London correspondent. We just liavo to lose that "plain clothes" complex ■which we have, had in the last year or .two and really let ourselves go. One hat seen in London was of coarse straw with an upturned brim and cherries nestling against the back of the crown. The hat was tied under the cliiu with a spotted veil. Another was a small toque in black straw with a spray of mimosa standing up in the middle of the crown. Yet another was a Victorian bonnet with a multicoloured fluster of (lowers under the brim at the forehead. Flowers, incidentally, are to be dotted about all over us, says Paris. Flowers on the. lapel of your eoat—on ijoth lapels, if you want to be ultra nmart —flowers at the shoulder and throat, either in bunches or in sprays, /lowers on bands on the wrist or decorating gloves, and even flower posies on shoes. It is all a question of getting that flower habit. Kven such an austere institution as the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, has become aware of the trimming trend in feminine fashion. In the South African court of their Exhibition Galleries was a beautiful display of ostrich feathers shown in all stages from the natural state in which they are imported from South Africa to the variety of uses to which they can be put in present-day women's wear. There were ostrich feather hats,, in lovely shades of blue and pink, and a cane of shot purple and pink feathers. There were also feather muffs, hair ornaments, and koine floral sprays.