FORETASTE OF SPRING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27504, 26 September 1950, Page 2

FORETASTE OF SPRING

NOTES FOR WOMEN

Attractive Fashions At Wingatui / Spring was in the air on Saturday at Wingatui for the first day of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting. It went —very fashionably and attractively—to most people’s heads. Pastel-coloured felts trimmed with feathers were the most popular wear, though the first summer straws, trimmed with flowers and veiling, made their appearance. The soft, shiny straws, folded back from the face and made in the same comfortable style as the smart winter models, seemed to be the most favoured and were seen in shades of silver grey, lime green, und soft pink. Small sailor shapes, often with a contrasting brim, were seen both in sisal straw and in felt, and colour contrasts were grey and white, navy blue and off-white.

Trimly-tailored gaberdine suits in the new subtle pastel colourings, usually warn with a matching hat, were much in evidence. A particularly good example was a suit, cut very simply, in a lilac-rose gaberdine; but soft pink and hyacinth blue were other colours used for these gaberdine tailor-mades. Almost all the skirts were straight—but two ensembles seen were examples of a different line. One was a jacket suit worn by an older woman. The jacket was fairly straight and worn over a finely, knife-pleated skirt, the entire ensemble, including hat, being in a dark hyacinth blue and worn with a neat, dark-brown fur tie closely wrapped round the neck. The other was worn by a young girl, who, over a narrow beige skirt, wore a dramatic back-flaring jacket of nigger brown corduroy, closely fastened to the neck with a double row of gilt buttons. Grey Still Popular Grey is still a very popular colour. Grey worsted, with fine white chalk stripes, has a definite air of smartness,' particularly when worn with a grey and white hat, a crisp white blousef and white gloves. Worn with a flash of another colour, as seen in the grey coat frock with asymmetrical fastening which was accompanied by plain grey hat, shbes and gloves and splashed into brilliance by a jadegreen scarf, it became sophisticated elegance. Green was a popular accessory colour besides being used for dresses and coats. All shades were used, from lime and willow green in the straw hats to deep hunter’s green for coats. The dark green was perhaps too deep

for spring, but an effective harmony was created by one patron who wore a dress and matching small hat of moss green with, over it, a long, loose coat of paler yellow-green. Special Colours

First indications of what are said to be the season’s special colours were seen in two attractive costumes in navy blue and white. A long dress of navy-blue wool, trimmed at the neck with an inset of oyster white, was exactly matched by a plain navy coat, and a hat of oyster white with navy trimming. Another navy-blue dress, again of wool, worn with matching shoes and gloves, was finished by a. charming sailor model in white mouton, navy-blue eye veil, a double row of pearls and, as a concession to the wind which occasionally whisked across the grandstand, a full-length silver-grey squirrel coat. Among those present were:—Mrs W. L Cunningham, of Invercargill; Mrs S.' Fitch, of Oamaru; Mrs R. Butcher* of Omakau, Mrs G. Peters, of Middlemarch; Mrs S. Macpherson, Mrs Peter Barr, Mrs R. C. B. Greenslade, Mrs T K. S. Sidey, Mrs L. G. de la Perrelle, Mrs F. Halsted, Mrs M. Sidey, Mrs Arthur Barnett, jun., Mrs A. Smellie, Mrs J. Solomon. Mrs D. Solomon, Mrs Carl V. Smith, Mrs J. Duncan, Mrs A. Jeavons, Mrs M. Bullivant, Mrs J. McKee, Dr M. Barclay, Mrs H. Sumpter, Mrs L. M. Satterthwaite. Mrs W. G. Aitken, Mrs W. H. Tucker. Mrs J. H. Lewin, Mrs G. H. Whitcombe, Mrs K. Harker, Mrs H. L. Paterson, Mrs H. M. McDougall, Misses Elaine Smeaton, Elizabeth Brewer, G. Heslop, Susan Glendining, p. Evans and M. Reeves.