Skirts Refuse To Be Longer

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 562, 15 January 1929, Page 4

Skirts Refuse To Be Longer

Efforts to Invent an Original Hat

THE STATELY CAPE

I The cape, the scarf, jewellery, small hats and the skirts that will not grow i long are outstanding features of the I new fashions which in October and ! early November are selected by society women as styles to be worn for the next few months. The longer skirt has been made by many dressmakers both for day and evening wear, and Jean Patou has been one of the most determined to say that the day of the short skirt is over. But the modern woman says firmly: “I will be comfortable, and if you want me to wear long skirts I will only do so in the evening, and even then 1 will only have them long in slit draperies over a slim foundation.’’ So this is what has happened. The morning skirts, the sports skirts, are all short, slim, with fitting hip yokes and pleats or loose panels, or straight fold-overs. Afternoon skirts are mostly flounced, either flat or fussily; if flat

, the flounces are deep, if f ussy 1 are narrow, and they are all p ut j anyhow, or seemingly so. n The cape is another feature of th P I season.. You see it in the mormae and on wet days, loug and circular ; over a tailor-made coat and skirt o' I tweed, and to match. Small Hats Then you see it in the afternoon I done in light cloth, light tweed, broad I cloth, atghan velvet (a stamped or : terued silky cloth which looks fiL broadtail); in real broadtail the cants seen, too, and in velvet aud satin^ In the evening capes may be worn by all sizes, since they can be gatfc. | ered close like any other wrap. M a( i e o£ velvet, satin, moire, they are -he richest of garments and very comfort able, though some of us prefer a mat with loose sleeves as easier to man. age. Now for small hats. The milliners are working distractedly to give us something new. They are cutting felts into the most weird of shapes and twisting brims into every kind of form. The thing to remember is that your crown must fit and then you can n about giving it flat trimmings "or twisting its brim, or cutting it off here and there and leaving ear-caps There are berets of two materials superposed, draped aud pinned with ! a jewelled pin. There are airmans caps, there are round toques, there are dutch bonnets, and not two of ant of these look quite like the others. Scarves and Jewellery The scarf is very much like the scarf of previous seasons; what is different about it is the way in which it may be worn. It can be looped in front, at the side, tied at the side, at the back, iu front, or arranged to hang down the back only, or one end down the back and the other in from and again it may be threaded through the dress at one point. It is made of thin material, which hangs well, and is not bulky; it may be long and straight or three-cor-nered, wide or narrow, fringed or pointed, tasselled or just picot-edged The newest of all scarves is the loose fur tie, which is knotted close to the throat, and is left there when the coat is thrown off in a restaurant or tea-room, not for warmth, but for looks. Jewellery Is chiefly imitation. What we work for is decorative effect, and we get it with beads of all shapes and sizes, liquid gems of glass set in gilt and silver metal. To brown fish-fillets, wash and dry, dip in milk, drain, rub in flour, put into very hot fat and fry a goldenbrown. Castor oil cannot be detected when mixed with mashed potato or administered in a pudding or poured over raisins. To wind silk or cotton quickly an-i firmly, use an empty photo-film spool. A COOKERY HINT Mutton and beef dripping mixed make a capital fat to use for frying. Lard gives things fried in it an attractive golden tint.