FASHION NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1931, Page 7 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES

MIXING THE MATERIALS. MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. (®y Colline Rouff.—Special to News.) We must learn to use materials this season as an artist learns to use colours. It is not- now a case of choosing a frock, a coat or an ensemble in a certain fabric, but of blending several I"materials in at least three colours, ii yoU want an up-to-date and successful toilette. Take, for example, a tunic three-pieee. You will, perhaps, have a well-cut circular skirt of dark navy crepe-de-chine. Over this will go a long tunic of printed blue, rose and black and to complete the suit, you will have a long, slim coat in dark navy fine woollen material. (That is a well balanced three-piece. Another version calls for a one-piece dress made of two different materials, the skirt and part of the bodice being of dull marocain, the sleeves and a Vshaped- inset yoke of crepe-de-chine or lace in another tone. The coat is of fine wool romaine, wool marocain, or finest face cloth. When the coat resolves itself into a ehort jacket, it is still possible to have three materials, but two colours, introducing the third colour by means of Sowers and scarf. You can make your little jacket-suit- by combining fine wool material for the skirt, crepe-de-chine or wool georgette for the frock top or over-blouse, and plaid woollen material for the coat. SCHEMES FOR SPIRTS CLOTHES. Sports clothes give a wide scope for the combination of materials. The newest tennis frocks are made of heavy washing silk and hand-knitted or cro-chet-wool. The skirt part is silk, pleated on to a well-fitting hip yoke; the top is wool, made like a double-breast-ed waistcoat, sleeveless or with inset elbow sleeves. This is a very useful and comfortable shape for a sports frock. I have seen a cream slub tussore skirt, pleated .in panels at the sides, sold with foiu- finest wool lace waistcoats, in white, turquoise, rose and egg-yellow. The waistcoats can, jof course, be made of pique or tussore, and are charming in these materials, but wool or jersey is more comfortable for the strenuous player.

Pretty morning frocks are made with skirts of fine woollen material, and loose overblouscs, cut a little on Russian tunic lines, of Hat crepe-de-chine in the same or a contrasting shade. Or you could have plain fine wool tuckin blouses, pleated at the waist.

“MIXED NOTE” IN THE EVENING.

Lace and georgette, lace and chiffon, taffetas and chiffon, velvet and lace or satin—these are some of the mixtures used for successful evening gowns. The most usual eom'bination is that of plain or patterned chiffon and lace. It is easy to work out, and easy to find the right lace and chiffon to go together. Very beautiful gowns are developed in flowered chiffon and taffetas showing the same designs. Sometimes the bodice is chiffon and the skirt taffetas; sometimes it is the other way about. In either case there is a coatee to match the skirt so that, when the coat is on, there is an all-in-one effect. Lovely little dance frocks for young girls are made' of embroidered muslin , mixed with chiffon. Long, closely fitting bodices are of the broderie, and full, fluted skirts are of the chiffon. Deep yokes and berthes of chiffon appear on broderie frocks, and the two materials are not necessarily the same colour —one is frequently white, the other turquoise, rose or lily-green. The rose shade is the most popular at the. moment. EVENING SCARVES. Lovely scarves are the most fashionable loose wraps now. Some women still prefer the tiny bolero coat, but the' wide scarf of filmy chiffon, supple lame,- feather-weight chiffon velvet, or satin, is elegant as well as useful. New scarves are made of velvet and chiffon, velvet and satin, and satin and chiffon. Two-yard long pieces are taken, each two feet wide at one end, tapering off to not more than a foot at the other and finishing in a point. The two points are then pulled in opposite directions through a jeavelled buckle. When two colours are cleverly. blended, and the buckle tones, the effect is charming, and the scarf can be arranged in many graceful ways.