SPANISH TOUCH IN FASHIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17853, 22 May 1926, Page 4

SPANISH TOUCH IN FASHIONS.

CARMEN HATS WITH RED ROSES ARE LATEST. The London season, with its multitude of social activities, will find smart

women cultivating a “Spanish look,” according to the prediction of a “ Daily Express ” representative Two important f factors in the shaping of a Spanish vogue were cited by this expert to a leading fashion authority. Millinery is assuming more definite lines with the tall crown and the wider brims typical of Spanish styles. Scarlet and black, an unusual combination of colours for summer-time, is the new fashionable alliance. The pioneer of the Spanish summer vogue is the modified Carmen hat in shiny black manila straw with a red rose poised on the brim, and another nestling piquantly below by the right ear in the insinuating traditional Spanish style. Lest the alliance of black straw and red roses should suggest heaviness, it should be explained that the straw is satin-surfaced and of feather weight, and the roses are fairy-like creations of fragile organdie petals. The return of the Spanish vogue, regarded by the dressmakers and milliners as significant of a growing taste for more pronounced femininity in dress, is interesting. In the strict order of fashion cycles, it is not due again for some years, having had a comparatively recent innings. The sudden and startling rise of shingling which threw tens of thousands of high Spanish combs on to fashion’s scrap heap gave the mode a set-back. Spanish hats will now restore its interrupted career, and with the new millinery will come the cult of the long, graceful neck—according to the fashion expert quoted above.