THE Lady's World.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 37284, 3 March 1905, Page 7 (Supplement)

THE Lady's World.

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Un tomato Notes of Interest to the Fair Bex, with Illustrations of What i* being Worn this Season. UP-TO-DATE NOTES ON WHAT TO WEAR. Liko Flora soon in tho pale glow of snnriso ia tba up-to-date girl in her delicate summer drape it ce, fluttering with airy’ ruffles of lace and garlanded from throat to feet in roues. This is a summer of roses, and tho girl whose cheeks rival them in tint loves to hang bands of tliem upon her shoulders, encircle tho decodlctage of her gown in them, girdle her slender waist and border tho voluminous folds of her skirt in roses. Best of all, tliero are roses whoso hue no florist has over been ahio to produce ; and, therefore, roses which are able to bring out the best in every woman’s complexion. One need not belong to the “rosebud garden of girls" in order to wreathe one’s self in roses. In tho garden of fashion roses grow , n sizes to order. They arc tiny as tho little pink picayune rose, or twice as big as the groat cabbage roses which make the air fragrant) in nrd.suminer. These big ones are often get around a skirt, with wreaths of small ones bet wen them. They also scivo as Rime, ai 1 decorations lor bodices, in which case email roses arc always used in the trimming. tt • • * I am showing you a very handsome email Gainsborough hat —black chiffon drawn over tho bruu and lined with block silk with a narrow edging of whit?. A pleasing contrast is provided in the white lace wh ch is made to Lio well

against the rnoeting-pluo.i of tho crown and brim, and a pronounced feature is tbe Kplcnd d black plume which tails well over the front. Tina hat Ims another thing to recommend ii—black and white strings which end in a knot, fastened with a button brooch. ***** At ono time all mem and women of a certain station in iii'o wore gloves, and when men began ;« abandon, the lash on tho glove with tho gentle .sex became democratic. At present bub few men wear gloves, and but few women don’t, but note the tendency—it is no longer unfashionable to go about, with unco vert'd hands, while the decision ol tho upper ton amounts to a ditcreo that gloveless hands arc really excellent lor in. Of course anyone can sco why a woman with beautiful lunula which aro beautifully kept, (should want to discard gloves, and it Is perhaps because society can distinguish ones position in hie by the way one's hands aro kept, that the ungloved hand is becoming i.ncreas.ngly fashionable. Gloved there ,s no diifcrcnce between the hand that tods and tli'j ha'iitl that, clot’su t, but bured unci naturally anyone can read the signs oi honourable toil, and this is just what tin. ultra fashionable will delight in. Yv'ith men of course it is different an over-wli to hand is not a sign of manliness, nor yet of gentleman! iness j indeed the browner tho hand is with exposure? the better it looks. Perhaps in time, to come we, too. shall cnte’cm a hand that has been touched with the sun and seamed with care ami trouble, but I am afraid tho date is a lung way off. ***** A dainty muslin cvcn.ng dross for a young ccl is shown herewith -the hochco 'bclnc cub square with tho .shroves puffed to the allows. Tho dominating feature is the oTir.i that recommends the design—the horizontal hands of inserover tho costume with forget-me-nob-bow.s of ribbon on tho positions indicated. This design, will have a valiio quite apart from its original purpose, as it shows a very pretty conceit, which might well Iks employed in any other kind of sumnwr costume, and

even on a blouse alone. The idea of employing bows in this way is, I think,

original, and, in any case, m extremely pretty. ****** Buttons cn mllinciy 1 That the latest, and a very pretty innovation it is. Buttons nowadays aro real ornaments, a.s they were bound to become on it being recognised that they were fit for moro things titan holding the two •sides of a garment. As ornaments they have been used on blouses and skirts to repiet'on, and so it \s no wonder that they aro now being ireed in that manner on hats. Tho only thing to marvel about it that they weren't used in this wav much earlier, in which case wo should" have Jong enjoyed many pretty effects with bo many arrstic civat on.s in the line. As so tar seen, the brim of a hat. may Ik? overland with folds of tulle expanding from the bund to the brim where each fold is studded in with a dainty button. Or th»j iold.s may be brought around tho crown and bnHoned m something of tho same style or crossed over the crown and Imttoncd an (ho brim. Application in butt on ng, folds is infill te, depending for its limit i/.imply on that, of tho milliner, whether professional or amateur. Another way of using the ornament is in catching .strings behind the hat or at the sides, where a button effect at ono? arrests attention and causes admiration. And in this application the button may bo largo or iaiui.il as de-ired, and just as bright an tho strings may call for. ***** Tho as-oeiate capo-fichu is au American idea and is worn over a coat or blouse by way of an elaborate accessory. Of two kinds of lac?, the main part is of striking pattern, tho other that on top

being smaller a.s it fitting to make a perfect design. Tiro border of tho garment, which many would veto strange, i.s a dainty frill of silk, so attached that it hangs In a hundred curving scrolls each side, with a couple of tassels as a finishing effect in front. ***** If the crinoline becomes really restored, there should, in my opinion, bo an Act of Parliament passed to penal .so it into tho 1 inter room again. Tliero aro some fashions of other days which should bo numbered only? with tho grotesque,

and tho crinoline, I venture to say, m the monstrous chief of them all, a kind of ill-favoured w.tch crouching in the midst of her progeny, the minor associates of the same period. Tho poke bonnet, the elastic-side hoots, the dolls parasol, the pancake hat,the long drooping chignon in tho very conspicuous net, what could have been moro inart st.c and so opposed to everything that counts a) tasteful and dainty And yet throe was another horror, great almost as tho crinoline itse.it —white stockings. I can't imagine any departure which wou’d tolerate tho revival ol wh.to stockings, which, a.s wc look back from this point of vantage, we can recognise as among the vilest articles of wearing apparel ever designed. Grey were bad enough, striped are bad enough, but tho stocking of tho tint of bleached cal col—■ Well, anyone who toys that our grandmothers were artistic should ho called to task with the single word “stockings,” and if that doesn’t act as a silencei 1 , then nothing will. J *♦ * * * Herewith is a very stylish blouse which makes up beautifully m fancy striped silk. The yoke is of lace villi a flared

flounce of original design and tho .sleeve is spilt from shoulder to wrist to exh. bit six .such flounces in m/inatnro. A.s originality is tho key not of good dressing just now, conditionally that it is tasteful, I have no hesitation in submitting this blouse as ono of tho most taking of the seasons fancies'. ***** It will interest you to note that “the veil is doomed.” By this I mean the decorative veil, that airy nothing of tho toilet which, coming like a wisp of mist around one’s hat brim, soon got to reach the proportions of a veritable cloud. It is this, so they say, that lias sealed its death warrant —it has become too much of a veil to any longer bo of real service, with the result fashion turns in disgust and threatens to rush to the other extreme. Of course we haven’t noticed any particular abatement in this country, bull the herald ng voico from over tho water rings clear as a hail—tho veil that, has been dono to death must suffer it. Naturally tho tone of revolt is loudest where tho fashion has heron most pronounced —in London and Taxis, whore tho veil has latterly Jieon worn right down to tho flounce of tho skirt. Drawn over tho faco inderok arid many nrght oas ly have passed tor iurliish veils, accepting the Latter as_ somothing which is designed to disguise tho wearer entirely, head and body without ci stenction. 'it is this extravagance which Ims led to tho condemnation mentioned. that which follows on tho heels of approval in regard to all _ fashion where they reach the border of absurdity. *■ * * » * * And tliero are many who know not where to turn for a rag to hide their nakedness, this, perhaps, bong an exaggeration, though pardonable when n-ed t(i point the moral;— Rarely, if ever, lias there been such a display of wealth at a society wedding as was made at. tho wedding oi Mr Bradley Martin and M ss lle.cn Phipps, at Beni it fort Castle, Lord Lo vat's Highland res donee, rented by the hi ide s lather for tho'wedding. It docs not. strike me a.s good taste to publish the following figures, but since thoro concerned have publshcd them, they may bo repeated: The bride's dives cost £-1000, her jewels £20.000, the bridegroom's costume £8000: the presents £500,000, the flowers £ISOO. Iho hair ornaments worn by the bride were said te be worth £20,000, iho birdgcroom’.s c- ft co-ting akin? £IO,OOO. ‘ They speak of tho bracelet craze m Emr'and. To quote the lash.on i\ liter in tho most, approved form of lash on writing—“lt is a pronounced vegue. Everyone who is anyone wears a brac-l.t, while many wear two many even 3 andt while half-a-dozen is not except onal. The bracelet erazo was introduced by the short and three-quarter sleeves, which seemed to suggest the need of some sort of decoration 'for the arm between the termination ol the sleeve and tho wrist. Such bracelets, however, do not take mi the big solid forms that wo remember in yeans past. They arc mod y slciuici lines of jewed linked together, and glitter ,'n a vivid mass of parti-coloured lights from an unolistrusive .setting, together with bracelets, earrings have come into style again, and, what re more tho bigger the carring the smarter it is. “Wo may came,” rays the same high priestess ;h Babylon the Brea'-, ‘to a revival of the t me when can mgo weic so large and heavy that they almost pulled their way through the lob? of the ear. and anyway caused a dishgunrg hole there.” Perhaps there is to Ie a revival which would be last named as tho “South Sea Islander earrings period.”