Fashion’s Accessories

Southland Times, Issue 21264, 10 December 1930, Page 18

Fashion’s Accessories

The season’s fashions are now established, and the attention which has been paid to dress accessories is more than ever apparent. While frocks, suits and costumes depend upon clever cutting and exquisite workmanship for their effect, the ensemble relies upon details for its complete success. The “matching craze" has by no means died out, but, as well as having shoes, stockings and gloves to tone with frock, hat and hand bag, you must give careful consideration to certain little touches on the dress or coat itself.

Belts have to be reckoned with these days, and buckles must fit in with the general scheme. Beads, brooches and clips cannot be selected haphazard, for the colour of the necklace and the stones in the jewellery need to blend graciously into the ensemble, and not, as has been the case for a season or two, to strike a note of their own. Dainty blouses with cascades of kilted frills and silk embroidered flowers on front and sleeves are kept for wear with the silk or satin pleated skirts, the two forming a pretty “uniform” for afternoons at home. Such blouses are seen, too with the useful semi-fitting suits. The correct complement for the severely plain costumes is the cut-away waistcoat, with no sleeves and no fullness, which is as carefully fitted as the coat itself. This neat waistcoat adds a note of distinction to the suit, and is very comfortable to wear. More and more old-world touches arc being added to frocks, but the little frills arc very cleverly placed. There is no suggestion of dowdiness even about a dress wlt.cn possesses a frilled berthe tied with a demure little bow, a frill round the hips to outline ihe yoke ot the skirt, and another at the hem.

The cross-over line is the most noticeable feature of most of the new models. It creates a delightfully slender effect, and adds a kind of Grecian influence to the ankle-length dance or dinner frock. The draperies of the corsage are drawn to one side, and the top of the skirt shows the material crossed from left to right, oi vice-versa, from waist line to hops, and sometimes as far as the knees. There is no fullness in the skirt, but the effect of soft folds is suggested by the arrangement ol ihe different sections. Stockings grow darker and darker. There 's a decidedly bronze tone about all the .reiges, and the pink and flesh shades arc not .seen at all in the new ranges of colours —not even for evening wear. One or two

makers have tried to reintroduce black and the dark gun metal greys, but without success.

There is, however, a change in stockings, which every woman will find interesting, and that is the elimination of the back scam. At one time the seamless stocking refused to fit snugly round the foot and ankle, but now the machines on which it is fashioned have been re-shaped so that, although the seam is no longer there, the stocking is fully fashioned and fits like a second skin.