Seaside Styles Get Caught in a Net

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

Seaside Styles Get Caught in a Net

—Says NIKI OF PARIS (Copyright)

T'HTS year less than a yard of coarse fish netting makes the smartest hat,albeit-it is a turban and you make it yourself with a quick twist and ilick of the ends each time you wear it. Yet, in the history of fashion, .this fish-not turban will remain as the outstanding head-covering of the start of the summer season ]939. So it will testify fornil time to the vogue that fish netting enjoyed as a very important phase of fashion. . . At the seaside, fish net in brightlydyed meshes is even seen worn as capos over swim-suits, which, while they do not form a protective covering, are liked for the attractive way they veil the body, just as a sheer 1 stocking is worn not so much to cover the leg as to enhance it. Similarly, petershambound shirts of fish net are ivorn with shorts and sun-tops, and give an almost Victorianly modest appearance, though the reverse might bo expected to be the case. Some swimming suits of linen or wool have duplicate cases of fish net in a colour that contrasts brightly against, the background of the suit. Beach hags and cosmetic kits also come with fish net used as a decorative finish-

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Besides fish-net turbans, which, are worn everywhere with linen frocks, cocktail costumes and ball-gowns, the same medium is applied to headcoverings designed for specific purposes. Tennis shades are fitted on to triangles of net. which tie around the back of the head to keep the coiffure controlled and at the same time to Rive a very pretty, effect. Fish net is to be seen draped firmly to make a design over the crowns of some outstandingly smart hats, and it is also used in the place of veiling on many seasonable millinery models. You may even see fish net used as part of tho design of an evening costume. One lovely dress for summer dances is of gleaming white stocking jersey cut very slim and straight. A separate arrangement of sea-green net can be attached round the waist at will like a Hawaiian hula skirt, or else it might be woi'n about tho shoulders as a cape.• So infatuated did one designer become with the novelty and artistic possibilities of fish net in fashion that he designed a bridal costume for a wedding by the sea and made it with a long, billowy train of the net in the foamiest white!