The Social World.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2575, 22 July 1922, Page 6

The Social World.

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PERSONAL ITEMS Mr and Mrs E. B. Lee have returned from their holidays to Whangarei. Miss Gwynncth has returned from Auckland on Tuesday, where she has been spending three weeks with friends. Miss Taylor, Miss Helen Taylor, and Miss? Mabel Hay left on Wednesday for Auckland, where they will join the Navau on a trip to the Islands. A very pretty wedding took place at Pirongia, when Miss Chappell, only daughter of Mr and -Mrs Wm. Chappell, of Pirongia, was married to Mr A. E: Mounsey, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Ti'R. Mounsey, of Pirongia, late of Taranaki.

in, touches of emerald; Miss M. Cox, vieux rose crepe de chine, and a black velvet sash; Miss Laurenson (Matamata), pale blue taffeta; Miss Swayne, maize satin, with ostrich feather trimming; Mrs Nelson, black satin, jet bead bows and fringe; Miss Thompson, white net, edged with black; Mrs Hopper, pink taffeta, black velvet bodice and fringe panncrs; Miss J. McCullagh, white soft satin frock, white and blue sash; Miss Armstrong, pale pink georgette, accordeon-pleated sides, and soft swathed belt; Mrs M. Wells, white georgette and lace. ENGAGEMENTS OP THE WEES . The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothy Gordon, only daughter of Dr F. W. Gordon, of "Hillsborough," Auckland, to Mr Keith L. Caldwell, only son of Mr and Mrs D. 12/ Caldwell, of St. Stephen's Avenue, Auckland. The "New Zealand Ace" was the sobriquet gained during the war by Major Keith Caldwell, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross;, in addition to the Military Cross, for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. PASHION NOTES Interesting developments are taking place in knitted dresses. In Paris quite a sensation has been made by the new models introduced by a modiste who was one of the first to embroider knitted materials. She is doing wonderful things with grey silk embroidered in rusty copper and black, and with skirts and Pussian blouses of black jersey enlivened with Chinese embroideries.

Wonder arc there many centenarian women in New Zealand? There died at the age of 101 years in Tasmania lately Mrs.Modcry, who was the widow of an MX.C. : Tasnianian papers boast that the old lady could read newspapers without glasses, although they don't,say what reason she had for reading 'ein. Her memory was very wonderful. It went clear back to the days when there were "devils" and coaches and chain gangs in "Tassy." She has a son aged 79. DANCE AT ODDFELLOWS' HALL

' Quite one of the prettiest dances of the winter was given to Miss Helen Taylor, at the Oddfellows' Hall, last Friday. Mr Alfred Boyce had decorated "the hall .beautifully, and fully deserved tlio praise he received from all sides. Ferns festooned the walls, and the whole ceiling bore the effect of shbwrlakcs, the electric lights being most artistically arranged with coloured'balloons and coloured papers. : Mrs. Taylor wore a black satin dress with black and gold lata anct jet beads fringe; Miss Helen Taylor, ereme suri satin, silk lace pauiersVv'and gold fruit • and leafc girdle; Miss M.' Taylor, pale .pink .net over satin, green and gold Swathed sash; Mrs Meredith,' black •georgette frock, silver lace; Mrs Rush, green and gold shot tissue, Coral girdle; Mrs I. Taylor, fuschre silk, folded pannis; Mrs /Middleton (Horahora), maize and emerald; Mrs S. Lewis, flame, ninon de soir, kingfisher blue cbinelle edging and vest and sequines; Mrs N. Banks, black lace frock over white satin; Miss E. Souter, tato de nigre satin and tangerine; Miss Ida Lundon, pale blue georgette and satin; Mrs Or. G. Taylor, black lace over satin; Mrs Kemp, Princess Mary blue accord-eon-pleated frock; Mrs Stopford, white satin with lace overdress and satin sash; Miss King, blue and gold chequres and gold scarf; Mrs Sutherland, black satin and jet trimming; Miss B. Buck, land black velvet with touches of cerise; Miss Z. Poole, fawn georgette and gold; Mrs Allison (Horahora), black and gold lace frock; Miss D. Simpson, lemon georgette over white satin and lace; Miss D. Smales, pale blue net; Mrs.D. Lundon, black frock, black and gold net; Miss Foster, black lace frock over crimson; Miss Edgclow, • white spotted net, pale pink edgings; Miss Laing (Hawke's Bay), rose pink net and satin, silver trimming; Mis*' C, Sinales, electric bluo soft satin and. .gold net; Miss I. Lundon, mauve-crepe de chine; Mrs B'enham, black soft sat-

Pearls and jet mixed—that is the latest cry. If you want to bo smart wear a ten-row collar of small pearls, linked here and there by slabs of jet, and fasten it under your chin with a jet and' platinum ornament. 'Match your hat to your costumecoat. That is the new idea. The smart Parisicnne is wearing a short coat of blaek Russian satin, with a skirt of cloth or knitted fabric, and a black satin or acholic hat.

Beads are used in every conceivable way to adorn evening frocks.

They may be large or small, round, square or long, in fact anything that con be threaded and used as a bead. Anyone who has in their store box beads of an unusual description should look out for them now, and make use of them. Bead embroidery of every style is used, worked with tiny beads, small and large beads combined, or quite large beads. Then there are bands or rows of beads, tassels, or clusters, and, lastly, ropos of beads just hanging in festoons, or else in straight-down strings, while there are all kinds of bead-fringes employed. The newest trinket takes the form of combination ear-ring and necket. Made of pearls or diamonds, it fixes to the ear at each side and descends in flexible beauty to a becoming point below the chin, where is terminates in a pearshaped pendant. It is particularly charming when combined, with a pointed head-dress, the two giving a wonderful Cleopatraesqne effect'.

Many are the original and exceedingly pretty blouses- being shown just now. A well-known dressmaker of the

Ruo de la Paix makes a simple, semifitted blouse of silver tissue collared with an inch-wide black velvet ribbon, from which rises or flares a frill of pleated black tulle and fashions, another blouse of gold tissue, collared with black ostrich. Many blouses might be described as semi-fitted chemises, that is, they fall straight from shoulder to hip, curved to the figure ever so slightly, and are finished at the hips with turned-back "cuffs" of embroidered or plain tissue. Occasionally a blouse, long-sleeved, is fitted with a "chocker" collar, but usually they arc open at the neck, and generally shortsleeved or pagoda-sleeved. Hero and there we see a blouse of silk jcrsy, but as a rule the material employed is crepe de chine or soft satin.

The low waistline —or absence of all waistline—calls imperatively for girdles. The call is being answered by literally thousands of novel designs.