Some Fashion Hints

Southland Times, Issue 25362, 14 August 1935, Page 5

Some Fashion Hints

Flower Clips. If you want to add vivid and varied notes of colour to your sombre dress or hat or coat, there are some ingenious new flower-clips which meet the case cleverly. The flowers are quite small, mostly of the polyanthus shape, and in clean colours, blue, red, yellow, lilac and. so forth, with dashes of white. The Choice of Clothes.

There are some things about which the woman who makes or plans her own clothes should be quite certain. These are the lines which suit her figure, colours which blend with complexion, hair and eyes, and details. Let us study the first essential, line. Some women never discover those lines which best suit their figure, thus they suffer many disappointments in dress. That should be lesson number one, discover the lines that are yours and look for similar ones whenever buying or making a new outfit. This does not mean sticking to old-fashioned styles, but developing an eye to recognize “your line.” Secondly, find your colours and adhere to them. Here again are pitfalls, because every season there are new shades of certain colours, so a red, green or blue which suited you one season may, in its new tone, not be yours.

This proves that no woman should say definitely that blue, for instance, is “her colour” and forget that any others exist. Find your three best colours at least, then the season when the blues do not suit you take your choice from the other colours. Details are our last consideration. These are of subtle importance, very nearly as much as the first two. Some women are built for bows and frilly effects, others for more severe, more tailored accessories, such as tabs, rows of buttons, stitchery and flat incrustations. The Flower Craze.

Fashion says flowers with a unanimity that is unusual on the part of dress designers. Florists are finding a ready demand for the natural blooms as dress trimmings. By day and for evening, women are taking to their fresh and fragrant posies. But the liking for natural flowers goes side by side with the season’s demand for all kinds of marvellously realistic reproductions in silks, organdie and velvet. There are girdles round the waist, trailing wreaths on the corsage, and shoulder sprays that are more like collars. A quaint and charming Victorian revival is the bracelet, or, rather, bracelets of small flowers. The Suzy floral coronet is a headdress fashion for youth that is now becoming a positive craze.

The floral vogue, it should be said, is not economical. Its charm lies in absolute freshness, whether blooms are natural or artificial. Faded flowers are depressing. Limp and tired looking artificial blooms can make the smartest of gowns appear dowdy. Another point to notice is that straggling flowers, though graceful in themselves, are not the best for effect. Clustered roses, marguerites, carnations, pansies and the various kinds of poppy are good.