FASHION NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1932, Page 15 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES

TURN-ABOUT TOILETTES. UP-TO-DATE ECONOMY IDEAS. (By Colline Rouff. —Special to News.) There are many versions of the suit this season; skirt, blouse and. packet; frock and jacket; frock of one material and jacket of another; and. skirt, coat and blouse, all of different colours and materials. If you are going to have only one suit, it may seem difficult to make the choice. But it is not really; ypu can have them all in one. First there is the frock, which naturally must be in two parts. There are one or two ways of making a frock like this, as, for instance, the skirt with the very high corselet fitted round and above the waist, and the well-cut bodice of firm silk or the same material in a finer weave. The bodice also fits perfectly to the waist, so that the two seem to be one, without wrinkles or rucks. Again, the dress may be frank. Iy of the pinafore style, with a fitted corselet and wide braces, to wear over various blouses. When the dress is to be worn as a skirt only the corselet is removed, since it is made separately, leaving the ordinary low-waisted skirt. There, then, you have your frock and your skirt. Now for the jacket. It matches the frock, of course, and can be worn with the complete dress, or with the skirt and a silk blouse. There are two versions of the suit. >ow it remains to find the second’little jacket, which can be of almost any material you fancy. It looks well in the same material of a different colour; say the frock is brown, the jacket can be pistache green, or vice-versa. If the jacket is black, the dress can be stone colour or blue. Two blues, two browns, two fawns, all make charming colour schemes.

THE OBLIGING SCARF. All the nicest frocks have scarves attached somewhere. Wherever they may be, you can be certain that they are not to stay there. Sooner or later, they are unbuttoned, unclipped, or unfolded, and used some other way. A collarless frock, may have small rings at the neck, one at the back, one on each shoulder, and two close together at the front. Then a gay scarf ns slipped through all the rings, and tied in a bow at the back of the neck. Occasionally the bow is united, the scarf slipped out, drawn through the rings to the front, and tucked down under the belt. Another model is cut on the bias, with a set of three buttons or ring clips, slanting from one shoulder. A crepe-de-chine scarf, usually striped in three colours, is fastened to the rings or buttons, drawn round the neck, the end passed across the front of the frock and through the. other end of ,the scarf. For a change, the scarf can be unfastened from the top, buttoned on to another set of fastenings at the waist, and drawn round like a belt, to bo tied on one hip. Some frocks are made on princess lines, quite fitting to the knees, and flared towards the hem. There is no belt, but in front of the neck line are two slots, through which is run a long, substantial crepe-de-chine scarf in two or three colours. This is taken down to the waist, crossed at the back, and tied in front. Several nice scarves are plaited from satin or silk in three colours. FROM THE DRESS SHOWS. Tunic frocks in finest wool material, or wool and crepe-de-chine, the tunica reaching to the knees, and the underskirts very narrow. Straight coats, quite plain, with, plaited belts of the material. They are seven-eighths length and just cover the tunics.

Evening gowns with low necks outlined with flat flowers of the material. Slender shoulder straps of flesh-coloured satin ribbon hold up the gowns, but do not break the flower line. Evenino- gowns cut with tunic skirts, the"over"slurts very long at the back but cut away to show the under-skirte in front. Afternoon hand-bags made of pleated crepe-de-chine in black, navy, or white, with very large handles of crystal or glass. WHEN ENERGY IS WASTED. THE AMATEUR DRESSMAKER. (By M.H.) ‘'The mistake of the amateur is that she will insist on putting too much and too good work into her things,” remarked the dressmaker, referring to a trock which one of her customers had made and then brought to her to be put riHit “No professional dressmaker would dream of putting so many fine etitches into the hem of a skirt. Small stitches merely serve to emphasise the line of the fold-over whereas a few long loose ones would never be noticed. Then look at the way this georgette flounce has been finished with binding. If half the number of stitches had gone into it, and half the time been spent on it, it would have been twice as ’airy-fairy in its effect. As it is, the firm edge makes it look clumsy and heavy.” Out of sheer conscientiousness, it seems, we defeat our own end We put more work than is needed into, our jobs, because wo are feaiiul of not putting in enough. . r Don't you know the housewife who has her floor so highly polished that people are in fear of their lives as they slide into her room, bringing her rugs alomr with them ? She makes a god of polish combined with elbow-grease, whereas a little less “shine” and energy would mean reasonable safety and an equally well-kept floor. She is own sister to the woman who launders her net curtains so assiduously that they fall into shreds before their time. And to the one who treats her children to so many clean jerseys that the garments become “fclty” and shrunken long before they are worn out.

These are women who do not spread around them an atmosphere of comfort and'good cheer.