IN FASHION'S REALM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 December 1913, Page 2

IN FASHION'S REALM.

OP-TO-DATE NOTES ON WHAT TOWEAB.

Your first-class French milliner is a veritable genius in this combination of colour. But the hat is always argued as the last touch in the ensemble, and it must suit hair and complexical, eve,it features, at the same time. For example this and the next liatT come from the studio of Ida Marguerite, and the , one, here, emphasises, not only that particular fact, but the possibilities in ribbon -in a season which is making it a cardinal trimming feature. The wearer will have,a delicate and refined face, with, so pleAse yoiiY dark brown • hair,^.and^Jbe

light, the least bit lemonieli, with white to trim and then the proper balancing! touches of 1 silk to complexion the hat: This is a study in an elusive green, shape a straw of good texture, peaked in front, turned on side, an<T with a generous and, artistic bow, if bow it may be called, picot edge. TJIO back will show the ribbon well tup, so that the, straw shows between the bow and the band. Little luck for those who 1 are in the habit of putting away their blouses one year in the hope of getting fresh use, out of them the next. The season has inaugurated a complete change of style, with the main thought oh muslins and linens with pleats sewn down half way. .When Paris was. in midsummer the particular fancy for shirt waists was art old world book muslin called mousseline de comrnuniante. The idea'of wearing thei blouse over the skirt only finds first, rank favour when, made of pleated net or pyelet-liole work. For the first flat pleating has been adopted and the length increased to merge with the title "Russian blouse." For the other a ruffle of embroidery is seamed in at the waist, beneath the belt. In . some new dresses this is reversed. That is to say the ruffle is provided by the skirt and stands up about the waist instead, of turning down from it. Such sTtlrts are cut wider at top and shirred rouhd the waist, the runnings taking the place of thf belt. Many blouses and shirt waisTK feature the Raglan shoulder i.u its method of providing a portion of .the side of the bodice, or, as is more usual, the curve of the shoulder, reducing the. arm-hole by one half and sloping inward almost to a point nt the neck. A new feature of £he Russian blouse is to be shorter in. front, when it slopes down gradually to the back. Another innovation consists in mounting the blouse portion to a sort of yoke with shoulder extended to take in something of the sleeve. A