Fashions Up-to-date.

Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 12 August 1916, Page 21

Fashions Up-to-date.

By Myra.

/"▼AN you imagine anything more I-, delightful to a girlish heart w than this "creation" in Serves blue satin crepe and silver lace? • . • • For a girlish figure the little crossover coatee and the djrapejd pointed over skirt are peculiarly attractive, while the silver lace forms the blouse, full sleeves and the flounce of the underneath skirt. • ' ■• . • If less expensive materials are wanted book muslin with, ninon or faille or other silk would be. equally attractive. • • Plain net under flowered voile is another favourite combination of materials, and the new nets are coming in so many new and pretty shades of colour that one ie no longer confined! to a choice of cream or white in this most economical substitute for lace. • " . ■, " The rose tones seem to be as popular as ever, and the same is true of the old blues, and certain clear, cool rather light greens. A very stun-

ning lot of stripes in these colours with white has been brought out in cotton gabardine, and will doubtless find favour for summer sport, wear and for other country uses, taking, to some extent, the place of striped linens.

In the piquelettes, which is first cousin to French pique, come very attractive colourings with hair lines of white between the fine cords, softening the colour tone greatly. In a maize this material is particularly good, and there are several good shades of rose.

Silk jersey weaves in stripes of white and colour are shown at all the silk counters and in many colours. ' Ah inch stripe seems first favourite, but there are stripes both wider and narrower. Plain one tone silk jersey, too, is plentiful, and wool j Jersey,, is shown in, every colour of the rainbow, Report has it that this jersey cloth will not be confined to sports clothes as it has been, but will be used for other frocks.

People who / like, toy malign-' the autpprai)ic r rule; of ;the French dress-, niakers, and to hold. ; them responsible for. .changes of styles might find an interesting -and instructive lesson ,in the history of the high collar that has become so general. .Several seasons ago Paris, put forward the, high collar, with no shade Of doubt in her ownriiind that it worild he'accepted. Women would hot... 166k. at l-ipj. The, open nepk, ws& more becoming, more comfortable, younger looking A season later Paris offered it tentatively again, and again women brushed it lightly aside. Not until the Paris dressmakers had worked and studied to bring the high collar to its present form, opening it in front to make it as comfortable and becoming as the open neck, raising it in back jand curling it over at the sides to form a petal like frame for the face, would women consider it seriously. Now, however, it has caught on tremendously, and one sees it on every-thing-—on blouses, dresses, coats and even the little new shoulder capes. In fact, it is used on practically everything except the visiting costumes, reception gowns, etc., which the Paris houses are preparing for their American customers. For the use of French women, who now have occasion to wear only the simplest and most practical clothes, the Paris dressmakers made either the high closed collar or the high collar open in front.

Suede boots for dress wear come in the new shades of blue, green, brown, plum, fawn, grey, and champagne, to match the material of frocks. Jenny ; who is just now at the authoritative height of Parisina favour, insists that costumes must be matched by footwear, and these coquettish boots are the result. The suede is soft as velvet, and even the high heels are covered with it. The boots are high cut, of course, because frocks are so short—and buttoned, of course, since the buttoned boot is y accepted as the formal dressy style of footwear.