Fashion News

Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 12

Fashion News

(From Our Correspondent.) London, The great changes in millinery fashions are noticeable at Deauville as well as Paris. Red is a winter revival, and many houses sponsor red in a deep, soft shade. For a house-frock worn under a black cloth coat, trimmed astrakhan, there is a close-fitting red hat, with a band of the same fur. For some years red has been fashionable each successive season. Somehow it always seems to be chosen by those whom it really suits, the explanation, no doubt, of its enduring popularity.. Beige fur, generally of the flat kind, s such as shaved-lamb, astrakhan, or squirrel, trims a dark brown ensemble of cloth or soft tweed. This, again, may have a cap of the same shade in felt, trimmed fur or ribbon, though more comfortable for the between-season are the light chenille berets in two colours. A semi-sports beret in a dark green felt has insertions of thick crochet or chenillework. It is worn off the forehead, but is large enough to be pulled to any angle to suit the face. In all cases there is more width provided, even in the close-fitting shapes. The Dutch-bonnet influence is not dead, and no one is ashamed of a forehead, while the milliners seem to drag hats backward to cover the neck. Turquoise-blue and a jade-green shade are among the brighter tones. Black is more popular than ever, and there are rumours concerning the tricorne in black velvet. Its revival is surely due as a fitting completion to the curled coiffure at its best. It is such a graceful shape. In fact, with greater elegance and more individuality in dress, the moment has come for the tricorne to return.

' One thing is certain—that the hat must so fit at the back as in no way to interfere with the collar, which fashion clearly intends will get higher. These large collars

are very becoming, for the new way requires that they stand a little away from the throat in the.front. When in fur they are generally continued in a long rever. For despite curves and more shaping, most garments are arranged with a view towards slenderness. The boyish figure is dead; the lines of the new figure are most carefully considered, however, with a view to slimness. No fashion is forced to-day. A new vogue is welb tried and tested before it is launched at a representative collection. Before the close of the Deauville season, it was noticed that the chic women would not accept long skirts for the afternoon; In the evening, they dipped and swayed and looked very graceful. The long, wrinkling gloves in white, black, and all sorts of different colours give an elegance and finish that were formerly missing in the “gloveless”, nights! With an all-black, white, or dark frock,_ bright red or violet shoes and gloves look very effective. Gloves now often provide a vivid colour note. Sequinned models are cut to fit in the sheath-like way. Simple satin frocks are mostly swathed and moulded on the hips by a wide sash which falls on to the ground, and there are many tulle and net frocks in white or pale colours over a coloured slip. New models of Victorian trend reach right down to the heels, and are closely fitted on the hips, with the rounded waist in its normal place.

A red, spotted tulle frock, cut exactly like a picture of a great grandmother s ball dress, had a deep berthe of the spotted tulle; the line of the decolletage followed the shaping of the frill of the marked eighteenth-century line at the back. Afternoon dresses nearly all show the shaped hip-yoke. Sports skirts are fashioned in a similar way, and by this means fullness is more evenly distributed. Also, it is a helpful way of combining the insistent craze for two materials of contrasting colours, for these yokes are in plain and prirtted velvets, or jersey and tweed. Crepe-romaine, moire, and satin are all used in afternoon dresses, but there is less trimming than in the models of last season. This augurs well for the thicker velvets and panne. Chartreuse-green crepe-de chene or romaine looks well under the favourite black coat. Two shades of green face cloth form a striking new ensemble with a cape attached, under a slim three-quarter coat. The cape and frock are trimmed with a thick silk soutache —an excellent decoration when it is too warm for fur.

Driving along the coast road from Plymouth to Margate, the motorist has to pay 17 toll-gate fees. There are still 88 tollbridges and 55 toll-roads in England. The longest continuous rainfall on record lasted 581, and fell at Camden Square, London, between Ip.m. on June 11 and 11.30 p.m. on June 13, 1003. *