Frills, Fads and Foibles

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1042, 5 August 1930, Page 5

Frills, Fads and Foibles

Fashion News Front France

Modish young Parisiennes, who are so sophisticated that it is almost impossible to keep step with them, are being “quaint” for this season, and adopting for their dance frocks organdi made in the sweet and simple styles of SO years ago. Such a dress will have a little bebe bodice and a full ankle-length skirt stiffened out by a rustling taffeta underslip. COLOURED ORGANDI • A few of these organdi frocks are of plain material, without trimming, except for slender jewelled shoulder straps; others are richly adorned with row upon row of real lace dyed to mat ‘h the muslin. One had a Greek pattern repeated many times on the skirt frofci hip-line to hem. It was in a pale rose-pink shade, and has shoulder straps of pink diamente, one of which was held in place back and front by clusters of pink “velvet roses and green leaves. The short coat, in rose and gold lame, was closefitting to the waist, flaring below in ?. double-frilled basque, and it had a frilled stand-up collar which framed the face. Another organdi dance frock was in a soft green tone, mounted over gold lame. The foundation, which was

cut in wide scallops, reached only to the knees, but the muslin overdress touched the ground. A trail of white-and-black camellias outlined the deep U-shfiped corsage at the back, but the front of the frock was perfectly plain. A very full waist-length cape of shirred gold lame, lined with leaf green satin, was worn over this lovely little frock. There are any number of muslin, lace, and broderie anglaise dance frocks, and if you are thinking of copying this pretty French idea, you you will be arrange many pleasant colour schemes. MILLINERY MODES Hat shapes are very new. Some are of the poke bonnet style, though they do not demurely shade the eyes. The brims are large, but they are tilted back in a way that our poor grandmothers would have thought crazy. The backward tilt is emphasised by. a bandeau of small flowers massed beneath the brim in front. | Other models are like the sailor hats of schoolgirls, but with much bigger brims. These also 'are tilted up ou bandeaux. They are “qauint,” but only for girls with good features. There aiie also the “floppy” hats, with tiny shallow crowns, which fit only on the top of the head, so that the big brims may have plenty of space to dip becomingly over the shoulders. A pretty idea is to have a whole wreath of small flowers under the brim to make a frame, as it were, for the face. A big hat of soft black panne stitched to fall in nice curves had a wreath of small pink flowers beneath it. This was voted a tremendous success. Everyone is collecting all the deep

’ pink and red coral to be found. The > kind we call red coral is so fashionable that it Is being snapped up very 1 quickly. Long carved drop earrings, and those in rose shape, are wonder-, ful possessions at the moment, and row upon row of “spike” coral is being made into thick necklaces fast ened with brilliant clasps. L.G