FLOWER HEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17832, 28 April 1926, Page 12

FLOWER HEMS.

Everyone loves to have one extra special and highly frivolous evening frock of the kind that can’t be packed like one's slinky little all-occasion frocks, but which can be trusted to vie with the best of them at a party. Why not try a flower hem? If you are an amateur dressmaker you can't attempt intricacies of cut, you must rely on effective trimming.' and this is one of the. loveliest effects I know. Have, for instance, a pale mauve ninon frock long-bodiced, with a swaying skirt having a deep, full hem of parma violets. Here and there a little sparkling stone should gleam out of the violets. You can buy quite cheap flowers—and half-faded ones you have got at a bargain price will be none the worse—but your hem must be at least six inches deep to produce the right effect. On some model dance 1 rocks Ive seen startling flower effects. Purple and cerise silk fuchsias were massed on a leaf-green taffetas frock’s hem, and immense chiffon roses of all shades from flesh to crimson, were round the edge of a dance frock in two shades of rose chiffon. . Of course, the simplest way of all is to have a taffetas frock and cut yards and yards of dog’s toothed edge stuff which you then ruche round into conventional roses. If you choose the right colours, this can be nearly as effective as the actual flowers. ”