Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17524, 29 April 1925, Page 9

Fashions and Furbelows

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This exquisite little evening froeK is developed in the modish mauve satin beaute. bordered with silver galon A deep purple velvet and silver tissue flower on the hip is the sole adornment. OUR PARIS LETTER. (From Pauline Gourlander.) In spite of the prophecy that this is io be a green season there are so many lovely browns and golden shades that it can hardly fail to be a goldenTHE NEW PEL), lied is as much used as ever for the new models, and each new shade seems to be the loveliest. This season the fashionable red is neither crimson nor scarlet nor geranium, but it has some j of the glow of c ■aeh of these, with a j soft bloom that makes it especially j lovable. Red and black are still used together; so, too, are red and v- bile 1 RED AND BLACK. A long, straight, red crepe do chine bodice may have a straight or shaped skirt of black reps, or ottoman silk, and, showing about jour or live inches below that, a red crepe do chine underskirt. With this is worn a black Bankok hat with n red cnmelia. SCARVES STILL FASHIONABLE., Long scarves, of the same material as the dress, are worn tied in a knot with the long ends hanging down the back. They are sometimes lined with georgette or crepe in the same of a contrasting colour ; sometimes they are hemmed or bound with braid, and decorated with a pattern worked out in small pearl buttons. LACE TRIMMINGS ON BLACK . GOWNS. I Black ottoman silk coat-frocks have | long pleated georgette panels down the front from neck to hem. The panel may have a straight line of small buttons, a flat pleat in the centre outlined with a row of silk embroidery, or a narrow frill of Valenciennes lace edged with a narrow line of colour. Valenciennes, in a mellow shade of cafe au Util, is used very effectively

■— 1 on black silk and satin frocks. Sometimes an apron front lms rows and rows of narrow lace frills, each frill being topped by a line of bright coloured taffetas. Collar and jabot and cuffs are made to match. SH A'WL-SC A RYES. Throe-corner scarves, in beautiful colours and designs, are still worn over the shoulders of high and low frocks. Especially attractive are tiie ones with fantastic tree-like patterns • in vivid yellows, blues, greens and j reds, printed on a dark background | of silk. 1 BORDERED MATERIALS. Materials, in black and white, or j brown and grey and white stripes and i checks, have a coloured pattern at i each selvedge. These are made into j frocks with the pattern forming the yoke and hem and the cuffs. Striped materials are liked as much as ever ; the stripes are used long ways and cross ways as a decoration. DAINTY NOTES. Kilted muslin frillings are worn as cuffs and rather wide turnover collars on ssilk frocks. Button-hole flowers are assuming enormous proportions, t amelias and carnations are the chief favourites. ALL THE VIRTUES. j It is impossible to like a girl merely j because she lias all the viriues. We may admire her for them, give her our respect and even envy her for possessmg what we lack : but I defy anyone to like her on that account. Indeed, the very reverse may be the case. Too often such an individual, secure in her own esteem, acquires a certain smugness of character that is positively irritating 1 If I were a girl who wished to bo liked by men, and if some good fairy promised me the fulfilment of just one wish. I should ask that .1 might be endowed with the gift of Charm. And exactly what Charm is neither 1 nor ’ cu kno-w. ou have either got it or you have not. | LEVELLING THE LUMPS. AMERICA'S LATEST SLIMAUXG CRAZE. Now, if you’re overweight, you have probably dieted arid exercised and massaged. and if you’ve done it thoroughly. alter much toil and tribulation, you have probably lost a few pounds—but if you’re anything like me, you’ve lost it in all the wrong places, and the too-solid flesh remains in its favourite j spots. j Our American cousins have now rculi ised l lie hopelessness of ordinary reducj it* 5-? methods to deal with these ‘-fat (spots,” and have introduced the lat ‘‘roller which certainly does seem io do the trick. ROLL IT AWAY. It is rather like a rolling-pin. but made ui pure rubber and with a corrugated suri ace. This you take by the two rollers at each end and simply roll away the lat just where it happens to be annoying you. It breaks up the iiny lat cells, increases the liow of blood t.O' the part, and the excess fat is carried away into the general cireu- ' lation. “Twenty minutes a day, and the fat rolls away,” as the advertisement says I Idle reducer not only massages away the superfluous flesh, but it also tones up the muscles and tones up the nerves and the circulation. If you do nob want to go to the expense of buying one of the special rollers (and I warn you they are expensive, as they are the latest craze in New York and Paris) I think it very useful substitute might- be made out of a really very rough hath towel, which is rolled ui), bolster fashion, :hen folded in two and slung on two small sticks, . which you will hold in your hands. And you can jtart n on your pet “fat spot’’ to-morrow night, as the results T have seen with this reducing method reallv hav<

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