SMART FAL-LALS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

SMART FAL-LALS

Though it-is quite true that the accessories of dress cost the fashionablyattired modern woman quite as much as her complete wardrobe did the one of thirty years ago, the thrifty and l clever can provide themselves with pretty dainties, particularly if during this month of sales they purchase, with discretion, lengths of lace, and far on which to exeriose their skill. , A careful ransack should also be made of jewel boxes in which have been stored the hoarded- treasures of the past fifty or sixty years; audi all cameos, quaint amethyst and topaz pendants, little “front” brooches, such as our great-grandmothers wore on narrow velvet ribbon upon the Brow, corals, and long earrings should be commandeered for use.

The earrings make splendid additions to those long so-called “barbaric” neck chains, now the completion of the smartest toilette, and often a pair of quaint treasures of another kind will provide the aiguillette ends of the velvet and silk neckties so modish now. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has created a furore for li’Aiglon jewellery and fashionable wraps of the double cape persuasion, called I’aigLons. The eagle appears, too, upon the new umbrella handles and also as the heads of sticks. Sticks are being sold'a great deal now for fashionable women to carry on “footing” excursions, as the French call pedestrian exercise. They seem to coincide particularly well with a long coat costume, such a® we call a coverall or paddock coat, or with those beautiful picture frocks copied from the French Watteau period. Suggestions will readily occur to those who like pretty little dress adjuncts, but find the purchase of them an expensive matter. Tagged neckties, a flower rosette with velvet ends, and-a pelerine made of fur and lace figure among the number. The newest buckles, too, are novcau by name, and very charming they are with their -flower devices carried out in natural colours.