IN FASHION’S REALM.

Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 67

IN FASHION’S REALM.

UP-TO-DATE DRESS NOTES.

By Marguerite.

(Special for the Otago Witness.)

After holiday-making there is now a steady settling down to the ordinary routine of daily life, whatsoever it may be. We were mercifully favoured with delightful changes of temperature in which to wear the numerous dresses women will always tike away with them—from the useful linen and fuji tennis dresses to the more elaborate lace, crepe de chine, and georgette, not forgetting the black coats which have become so fashionable this summer. Well I, for one, am pleased to be back home again, and I suppose my readers, too. are glad the holidays are over, although the children are still holidaying, and numerous picnics and parties and other festivities dear to the hearts of children are taking place. It has just occurred to me that so many mothers, in entertaining children, are always on the look out for novelties for the table, but in fact what I am about to suggest would make little saleable articles at cabarets or card parties, where every little helps for the various charities these functions are in aid of. • You require sweets (not sticky ones), coloured papers (crepe or plain), fine wire and a few ferns. Place a sweet in the centre of your paper, and twist the end of the paper. When you have done sufficient to make a small posy, wind the wire around the twisted ends and form a few stems, and then with a few pieces of fern and paper wound round to hide the wire you have a pleasing little posy of sweets._ Place one on each child’s plate. You might have a lucky number on them as well. I also saw them with a small paper d’oyley round them and tied with ribbon instead of paper. They did indeed look sweetly pretty.

Bright colours have been very much to the fore this season. Especially I may mention green and mauve. My first illustration would look well * in green, crepe de chine the spaced pleated skirt and the bodice, the bands being a much darker green or black. The model I

saw was green, and the bands black satin, with a small brilliant ornament in the centre of the narrow black bow.

Black always looks so striking against a colour lhe long, semi-tight sleeves are banded with black.

My second illustration is any fabric you choose, the lining consisting of rows of gold stitching, say, six rows, and three in the centre from the collar. A small spray -of hand embroiderv worked on the corners of the collar and a small

gold buckle on the belt finish a smartlooking juniper, which could be worn with any skirt, pleated or plain. A few very small gold buttons down the centre would add to the trimming, and two on the extreme corner of the collar and also on the belt passes through. With these two models you still have the long, slim line so much sought after.

There is very little change in hats, the close fitting being still the most popular. Amongst all I saw I picked out these two as being the smartest and the latest. My first, in straw, has no brim tile bands of satin crossing at the side and going round the back, finishing on the left side with a large flower. ±t looked smart, the straw being red and the rose was a hand-made one. The hat at the extreme right was an extremely

pretty girlish aviator shape, made of silk or satin, tucked in the front about five rows, the shaped pieces coming over the ears, underneath which passes the wide band, this being ornamented with a small spray, hand worked. The close-fittilng hats, being both smart and attractive, have the advantage of enabling the wearer to retain her hat and not obstruct the view of those behind at any gathering, they have had a tremendous run, and I see no sign of them going out, and, above all, - they suit the shingled head. The clever girl with her needle could make both these, hats; the first she could also make in silk or satin, and thereby get two hats for the price of one.