NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19903, 24 September 1926, Page 15

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

By Phillida. (Continued froro page 14.) VICTORIAN DANDYISMS FOR MISS 1926. The dandy of Victorian days prized liis gold scarf-ring and silken “topper,” and now his granddaughter borrows both. The top-hat has made such gallant attempts to outdistance the “also ran” millinery class, that it really deserves a place. It has taken to itself a wide brim and has been 'abelled “Spanish,” “Welsh,” or “Futurist,” but, in spite of camouflage, the inspiration is the old “stove-pipe” model our ancestors loved, which kept company with a soft silk handkerchief in the best hatbox. To-day’s feminine topper is made of grosgrain ribbon, it may havft geometrical decorations, made from ribbons in contrasting colours, and its height is sometimes astonishing Picot straw and felt are occasionally used, but the last looks hot. The point to bear in mind is that, unlike grandfather’s, his granddaughter’s topper must have a dull surface;; he liked his glossy ! Now for his scarf-ring. His young descendant, having become bored with her shoulder knot of expensive orchids, in trying to get ahead of fashion has gone back 50 years. The solid gold bands, engraved or embossed, fail to content her, however, and something set with diamonds is more to her liking. So the far-seeing jeweller has devised a slide of white gold, or platinum, sot with precious stones. The fragile scarves, that every girl floats about her this season, are drawn throgh the slide, which is worn at one side just under the oar, and besides being decorative, it keeps the scarf firmly in place.