FRILLS OF FASHION.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 3130, 9 December 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

FRILLS OF FASHION.

Lace and chiffon boas are tiie fashionable fancy m neckwear. The former are easily made by sewing lace edging, slightly gathered, around a silk cord so that each row will lap well over the other. The lace winds around to the ends like the grooves m a screw, falling each "rniy from : th« middle i)f the back. Little shoulder capes of thesv same gauzy materials, made with long stole ends, are also a pretty novelty, and the truly fashionable feather boas are either gray or white. Deep plum, garnet, gray and tan are the fashionable colours for t'loth and velvet gowns. Velvets, both plain and fancy, are to be very much worn. Narrow bands of fur, and especially sable, aie a prominent feature of dress trimming for gauzy evening gowns as well as velvet and cloth costumes. Long, black kid gloves are worn with the black evening gowns, which, by the way. have been very popular this season with mations and maids alike. A boa holder of gold, set with imitation gems, and shaped like a serpent, doubled m one deep loop, is one. of the season's novelties. The new variety m the taffeta .silk has the pliable qualities of a soft foulard, while it. is much heavier and more suitably jfor gowns than the thinner kind. , t J Collar bands on the new gowns are built, very much on the lines of those worn during summer, pointing or rounding up at the back of the ears, or finished with modest little tabs or frills of lace at the back. There are -all kinds and conditions m the combinations employed, so, with any measure of taste, it is hardly possible to go umiss. Lace and silk, lace with pipings of velvet m tiny stitched Viands of silk, silk and velvet, one material covered with tiny tucks and the other with stitching, coloured satin covered with cream luce and edgings of fur with lace, nre some of the variations of this especial portion of the costumes. Plaid silk linings appear m .some of the wool dress skirts. The idea, for the disposition of r fulness - around the hips, promised for the immediate future and already m sight, is an overdress with box plaits beginning at the waist on either side of the front, and extending around the back. There is a little space between these plaits and they are caught down Hat nearly to the knee. Black ribbon velvet is well up m the lisv of dress trimmings, and the special feature of its use, is threading it through lace for yokes, vests and kinds, as the case may be. Gold buttons with mock gems of various kinds and colours m the centre, are- used oa Home of the elegant costumes, and again we see small gold buckles at the ends of bands of fancy braid put on the bodice, cadet fashion, from either side of a fancy vest. Round 'handkerchiefs embroidered with your favourite flower is the. latest fad. Black velvet embroidered m Oriental designs with gold braid and coloured silks is used effectively for yoke collar and vest-' of an imported gown of old rose red cloth. The hack m many a cloth bodice is made quite plain without any seam. Automobile red, which is a pretty, rich shade of garnet, is a, fashionable colour for cloth gowns, and if it is dotted over with small squares or polka spots of velvet m black or of the same colour, then it is promptly stamped as new. The species of necktie that is easily copied by amateur fingers is nothing more than a three-inch-wide length of crisp coloured taffeta, hemmed by machine on both edges, cut. rin arrowhead points at either end and there garnished by three to five rows of closely set and gathered ,bebe ribbon of white or mixed colours. The newest fonr-in-hand is nlso wrought from tatfeta ; the portion alxjut the collar is tucked or corded Into stiffness, while the ends that flow from

•he small knot are abnormally large, and while the tie 'proper is of crisp taffeta m one tone, it mv.st be edged all about with a narrow Paisley patterned ribbon or a border <it half-inch-wide floss fringe. Small ,<iiedf k;iI!RT bags m grey and tan, with silver gilt and steel mountings, are permissible for women to carry m the street. They are round at the bottom, and only just large -enough to bold a handkerchief, «ome change and possibly some little trifle ; bin they are a great convenience all the mine. The close-fitting skirts with no pockets have precipitated these, no doubt. Velvet flowers, both large and very small, are one of the features of winter millinery, ivliile still another 'which jas l>een handed down from the sunim-r is the use of tulle on velvet hats. Them are rosettes of tulle, or tbe order is reversed, and tulle, striped and checked with bands of velvet of the fame colour, is used for the foundation of i he hat. White tu!le and white wings are the dainty trimming on a pale grey felt hat. Apropos of belts is the fact that many of the pretty French gowns round down at the waist line m front, or rather the belt drops n little to give the graceful dip. This accentuates the effect of the straight line, from (he neck to the hem of the gown, which is now fashionable. Wide silk gauze scarves to wear about the neck, and to throw over the shoulders with evening dress, are shown m great variety m the shops. There are some with wide Persian coloured borders on, the ends, others with knotted silk fringe or frills of ribbon for a finish ; but all the dainty light colours are represented.