Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17576, 29 June 1925, Page 9

Fashions and Furbelows

STUDY THE NECKLINE. Elsa celebrated her thirty-first birthday recently, and a generous husband gave her a cheque for new clothes. She spent the money wisely, providing herself with a new afternoon dress, a smart silk jumper, a little morning frock, and I a very nice evening gown, i But she overlooked one vital thing! She forgot (or perhaps has never realised) that she has a short, rather stubby neck. AA'hen Elsa was twenty-one, that did not matter, for youth, in its freshness, is a foil for all such physical shortcomings. But Elsa’s neck is now a feature to be reckoned with if she J does not want to look five years older than she is! The smart silk jumper would have suited her a great deal better if she had chosen it with a square, an oval or a A'-shaped neck anything but the symmetrical roundness she has favoured. She has made the same • ' wke in all the other frocks. the round neck each time, and thereby emphasising the fact that her neck is too short and too fat. Fashion seldom imposes a hard and fast rule about the neck line, so the wise woman can select the one which best becomes her. The A T -shaped neck, on any garment, is the best when the neck is too short. It gives an illusion of length, thinning the lines, and adding i a touch of distinction, where the round neck would be merely commonplace. The lengthy chain of beads, and any j of the fashionable neck ornaments, are j kind to the stubby neck, for they also ■ give the desirable long, straight line. Beauty must be served U> b pro- j

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served, and no woman can hope to re main beautiful if she fails to make study of “ line.” A POWDER PUFF PIERROT. During the last year or so. Pierrcl has -insinuated his long-legged attractions and melancholy countenance ai most everywhere. No sooner had vc become accustomed to seeing him ac company milady on her walks abroau than we met him in the guise of cushion in her boudoir. Then he ap pearccl on her Tom Thumb umbrelk handle, as a telephone cover, sprawling on a lamp shade —anywhere, in fact and the more unexpected his appear ance the better! In his latest manifestation, however Pierrot has forsaken the entirely useless and ornamental for the utilitarian lie now provides a covering for hi. lady’s powder puff, and resides quite comfortably in her handbag. , To make him you will need a piece oi white crepe dc chine, four inches wicb and eight inches long. Fold it in hall lengthways and widthways. and cut sshown in Diagram A. Sew up hL “ legs ” and the side seams, and make a little hem round the top, leaving tinopenings each side, through which you can run his “ arms ” —these are tw» narrow white ribbons, which draw up tigh t when the bag is closed. Attach a wee puff to the middle of the from (Diagram J 3), and make Pierrot’s head next, out of a tiny circle of materia! gathered up and stuffed with cotton, wool. Paint his features in with India ink, and tie a scrap of black silk, hand-kerchief-wise. about his head. Faster it securely to his “ body/’ in front tithe puff, and then give him a frilly black ruffle round his neck. Similar ruffles should adorn hi* wrists and legs—and Pierrot powder puff is finished!