HANDKERCHIEFS AND SHAWLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20426, 5 June 1928, Page 17

HANDKERCHIEFS AND SHAWLS

The silk handkerchief is rife in Pans just now, and so also is the shawl (says an English paper). The handkerchief is a large square, generally in checks 01 plaids, and very often in very bright colours. It is worn as a fichu, as a Boy Scout's tie, or knotted on the shoulder. It is used to give colour to a black or other dark dress, and is also one of those little shoulder wraps tor which the French have always had a weakness. Handkerchiefs are general y unhemmed, and, being folded triangularly fall into becoming pleats almost oi their own accord. Shawls are of every kind, including Chinese and Spanish embroidered shawls.' Some very handsome silk shawls -imitate the Paisley patterns and have long fringes in whatever is. the ground colour. Gold shawls are very much worn, and these are often made ot a very fine jersey. Some of the prettiest shawls now seen are made of a very supple lame. This must be in very gorgeous colourings, generally on the darK side. The shawl is about a yard or so square. With so sumptuous a material fringe might seem trivial. The lame shawl, therefore, is bordered with a wide band of gold or other metal. The gold must be as supple as the rest of the shawl, and the extra weight at the corners makes the whole thing hang well.