FRILLS OF FASHION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8832, 19 January 1907, Page 3

FRILLS OF FASHION.

Many devices have been brought forward of late to keep the long glove that is worn with the elbow sleeve in its proper place, but nothing so successful nas yet been discovered as the serpent bangle, which looks very much more pretty than any of the bracelets made of beadnetted silk, or mother-of-pearl. The serpents are iri various forms of gold and silver, some showing the scales of the creature quite realistically defined, others composed of a moshwork of gold thread, capable of expansion and contraction, so that any arm can be suited as to size. ' Brown is a good deal worn by women of all ages notwithstanding the dictum of the great Worth that " no woman should wear brown after she is forty." Be was very autocratic on this point, and when an English grande dame, fat and forty, who was also a professional beauty in the seventies, went to him for a brown velvet and fur dress, he would not take the order. " But brown is my oolour!" exclaimed the lady, much put out. " Was, madam, was, insisted the man milliner, and nothing was left to the lady but to bow to his decision. Very artistic buttons are used by the best dressmakers this season. Those with hand-painted miniatures upon them are perhaps the most uncommon, not only as regards the loveliness of the device displayed, but with reference to the shapes that are chosen. Some are large squares of ivory painted with three little cherubs' faces^ others are of the lozenge shape, and there are ako oval plaques that are very beautifully rimmed with cut steel or sparkling^ paste, and painted with a couple of children's heads after Sir. Joshua Reynolds. White ivory buttons, quite smooth and round, rank among the novelties, and are used on _ fur coats and handsome cloaks.