FANTASTIC WHIMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18552, 26 April 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

FANTASTIC WHIMS

FLOWERS OF VARIOUS KINDS. After having enjoyed a well-earned rest, button holes of artificial flowers are creeping back again, and are having a great welcome. It would be a pity to lose them, for they can pick up and emphasise colour or give a bright note to a sombre toilette as no other etcetera can do. In London they are wearing some charming buttonieres of crushed Shantung in several shades. These queer crushed flowers look particularly well worn with the fancy flecked tweed coats and suits.

Heather buttonholes are quite popular. Sprigs of the natural flower mixed with others of seed pearls in purple and white are seen quite a lot. Flat flowers, beautifully carved in horn and coloured, which had a vogue as pendants, are now made into brooches and worn in the coat lapels as buttonholes. Again, a novel, rather futuristic, posy was composed of many pearl buttons of different sizes. Buttons, from shirt size ?o those as big as a half-penny, of the old-fashioned four-hole variety, were threaded on back silk-covered wire for stems. Real flowers for evening wear are becoming increasingly popular, and this year promises to be more so than ever. It is a charming fashion and one with which the florists have every reason to be delighted; as to be effective the sprays should be well made and quite long, reaching from shoulder to waist.