HER LADYSHIP

Southland Times, Issue 19172, 16 February 1924, Page 14

HER LADYSHIP

PREPARING FOR SPRING LOOKING AHEAD IN LONDON. LONDON, December 13. Sitting beside a glowing fire, after having visited a display of mid-winter models, it is difficult to thing of spring fashions. Yet in “Fashionland” itself designers and manufacturers are busy creating spring designs and spring materials, and beautiful filmy frocks are already being materialised. The Paris “openings” are in February, and after all February is not so very far away. The fashion experts have decreed that periwinkle blue, old gold, and a cross between flame and cherry red shall be introduced as the most popular spring colours, while terracotta, imperial blue, dark and light nigger brown and baize green shall also be much in vogue. Two important features of spring fashions will be the introduction of a new form of embroidery called “fleurs des bois” —very beautiful work executed on a hand loom in coloured silks on to georgette, marocain, crepon, lainella, face cloth, and other materials; and the revival of interest in the peacock as ornamentation. This Persian bird is embroidered in white and in colours on cotton voile and georgette and other fabrics and will be an important decorative emblem.

For early spring wear face cloth embroidered in a running stitch in Chinese and other designs will be much seen. Allover embroidery has come to stay, but the Egyptian vogue is likely to be superseded by designs copied from old tapestry and others of the Arabesque and Chinese schools. Another new embroidery is known as “cordonne” and resembles twisted soutache. A design in grey silk on orange georgette is most effective. Cross-stitch expressing Slavonic designs is to be used on marocain. Beads will be employed merely as an adjunctive form of decoration, and will be mixed with chenille, silks, and other embroidery, chiefly for evening wear. Bead effects worked in silk will be much seen. Openwork embroideries on thin materials §uch as voile, ogandie, and linen will be very much the mode, and most of these materials will be mounted on and trimmed with silk. One famous dressmaker is combining organdie with taffetas, another, Venetian guipure with georgette. The cutwork embroideries, which include broderic Anglaise, are mostly self-toned. Crepe mousse, crepon, and uncrushable linen, sides voile in several new varieties, will be used for summer frocks. A new version of the woollen suit will not be knitted, but will consist of a short coatee in a new woollen fabric embroidered all over in wool in an Arabesque design. This is to be worn with a plain skirt of face cloth.

PARISIAN MODES SOME NEW IDEAS. PARIS, December 13. Straight coats of lettuce green velvet are embroidered all over with silver and collared with smoke fox. A new idea takes form in the shape of unmatched ear-rings . For example, one long drop may be a grey pearl and the other a white nearl set in diamonds. Newer still is Ae single ear-ring—very long and important looking. The latest way of wearing an evening “headache” bandeau is to drape the material tightly round the head, wide and low down at the back and very narrow in front. Feather fans grow bigger and bigger. Some of the latest specimens are really immense, and are produced in very startling colours. Light green fans of gigantic size are carried with black and silver frocks. Large flamingo-red fans accompany iridescent blue gowns. Green is the prominent colour of the season. It is considered smart to mix various shades of green in one dress. Jade-green, light and dark, is in evidence everywhere for day and evening gowns as well as for wrap coats, the latter collared with smoke fox and lined with gorgeous brocade.