Fads and Fashions

Southland Times, Issue 21648, 9 March 1932, Page 3

Fads and Fashions

New Lipstick Technique. Advice is now' being given in the beauty salons overseas on the new method of applying lipstick and the new shape to be given to the lips, to suit pseudo-Victorian frills and frippery. The small and narrow line of lipstick, suitable for brief skirts and hard, slick outlines, and for tiny off-the-forehead hats, has gone into temporary retirement, according to a London specialist. Her clients are being shown how to make a full Cupid’s bow, almost a pout, with lipstick, in order to suit feathered hats. Made-up lips are powdered afterwards to give a dewy and fresh look. At. the same time a much broader outline is given to the lower lip than before. * * * ♦ The Evening Scarf. Scarves are a fascinating contribution to evening gowns. Original ideas offer many variations in cape scarf motifs that slip on over the head or round the shoulders. These are very cleverly handled to hang at one with a bodice, as they are clasped somewhere on the waistline. In one instance a shaped width, tapering off into narrow ends in sky-blue pcau d'ange can be worn to effect a high front neckline over the low decollete of a gown worn in the same colour and material. * * * * Gloves. Gloves are full of surprises, and often very gay. For hard wear, hog-skin, so usual in beige or white with dark stitching, is now seen in black, navy and even dark bottle-green. The silk and wool knitted sports glove is also inclined to be gay in pale mustard, dark yellow, grey and white. With the classic tailleur the gauntlet glove in thick suede and military kid with heavy stitching is more than .ever a favourite. The difference is that the gauntlet has assumed a further width and importance, being inset with contrasting colour —white with black, or vice-versa beige and dark brown, and so forth. The smartest afternoon glove is of six or eight button length and gauntleted, of finest beige, white or grey suede, with the gauntlet inserted with soft tiny gaugings of the suede. It is very decorative, and yet in good style, being a little less "voyant” than the embroidered effects. * * * ♦ The Puck Bonnot. Women are, I find, keeping a watchful eye on the hat shoos. The almost incredible rapidity with which the summer revolution in millinery fashion was accomplished and expensive hats became demode in the course of a day or two, has made smart, women wary in the matter of their headgear. A new idea is coconut fibre, shaped to resemble what may be described as a “puck” bonnet. The straw is manipulated like fabric, with a short, cuff fitting round the forehead. Above this the fibre rises in puckish mood to the crown of the head, where it is gathered into line. “Impish,” was the word that one admirer used to describe the effect. The same shape appears in white chip straw, but in this case there is a quaint trimming in the form of blue and white striped taffeta ribbon, threaded through at one side of the front and finishing off in a rosette right at the top of the crown. Another puckish model is in wool, fitting the head snugly, and has four upstanding points that give a squared effect to the crown. There is an economy point, I am assured, in these points, for one or all can be crushed down in the manner found to be most becoming, or as means of giving a variety of angles to one hat. For town wear the points may be adjusted to suggest an ultra-smart line, and the hat, made in dark colours, adorned with jewelled pin. Brighter hues can be chosen for sports, and the accommodating points arranged to convey a more rakish-looking effect. * * * * The Violet Vogue. Deep violet, an ultra-fashionable shade this year, is very' lovely for the white-haired evening holiday hostess, or for the younger woman with jet-black tresses. It is good in lace for the semi-dinner gown, with a coat of purple lame, splashed with silver and mauve. I have also seen an extremely effective two-piece in deep purple chiffon, with a girdle of sequins in two or three shades, and a coat cut to the ground, slightly trained, entirely made of massed sequins, all in the purple, dark and lighter tints.