LONDON FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15272, 23 June 1923, Page 13 (Supplement)

LONDON FASHIONS.

(By a Lady Correspondent). The Crystal Croze. The very latest development of the crystal craze is a headdress designed for wear with a black evening gown, when crystal and black onyx earrings and necklet are the chosen ornaments. And very cleverly is their effect completed by means of trails of black velvet vine leaves and clusters of little white crystal grapes which sway and shine from black stalks. Grapes would seem, indeed, to be coming Into flavour again, after a temporary banishment, and some other new headdresses just arrived from Paris have quite big bunches of grapes, alternately gold and silver, clustered against a background of velvet leaves, shading from purple to rose, while the same metallic contrast also looks wonderfully weißwhen the leaves are brilliant green in shading. In both ornaments the central golden stalk can either be worn round the forehead, with the leaves curving at the back of the head, and the grapes hanging at the sides, or else with the leafy coronal in front and the stalk shining out against the hair. Elaborate Headdress. The same possibility of a lastminute change of arrangement, to suit the mood and the hairdressing of the moment, is the feature of another, more elaborate, headdress of black and white paste, which takes high coronet curves in front (or at the back, as may be preferred), all edged with up-thickly-clustered aigrettes, and at the other side narrows down, into just a bandeau of brightness, this adaptability being really most convenient—and economical. ~i.

And of course you can, if you wish, cover your head and your own hair completely with one of the floss silk wigs, which several daring pioneers have already tried to bring into fashion for general, as well as fancy dress, wear. One of the very latest and loveliest of these wigs is made in shining white silk, with a straightlycut fringe and a thick plait, entwined with a string of pearls, while a single full-blown pink rose is caught low down at the left side, with a cluster of green leaves and a twist of the Saxe blue velvet ribbon, which is eventually tied in a long looped bow at the back. • It is really the most decorative affair, though of course it demands absolute perfection from the wearer’s complexion, and toilette. Even more novel and striking is a wig designed, expressly of course, for wear at a fancy dress ball, and made entirely in very fine and brightly shining golden wire, dressed in high, curl-like clusters on a foundation of finely-meshed

net which makes it quite comfortabla to wear. It is not at all weighty, either, and so it will certainly, and soon, I should say, be in demand for the most effective completion of some fanciful gown, ail of gleaming golden tissue. It is to be obtainable, too, in silver, I hear, and should bo extraordinarily attractive in this somewhat more subdued form. Stage Headdress. There is certainly something rather fascinating in the idea of being able tv, change your appearance so completely by having different wigs to wear with special gowns. Miss Jose Collins, for one, would welcome such a fashion, and is quite ready to give it a start, as she proclaimed herself the other day to be thoroughly tired of seeing her own black hair! Other people, however, find it always lovely to look upon, and women consider Miss Collins wonderfully lucky in having hair which grows in such a way that she can most triumphantly follow the distinctly trying fashion of a swept-back-from-the-forchead coiffure. And one of the headdresses she is wearing with a new set of.gowns in “The Last Waltz” is a trail of softly green leaves, edged with a shining thread of gold, which shows up strickingly against that beautiful black hair —and leaves the beautiful white forehead quite bare —these half wreaths, worn at the hack of the head, being the latest choice of Paris. The dress is-of Georgette in. that same soft shade of almond green which seems to be making an equal success amidst the snows of Switzerland and the sun of the Riviera, and which will soon be equally popular over here. And on this soft background there is embroidered a shimmering design of golden thread and beads, the skirt folds being draped rather closely round the hips and caught up slightly at the left side with a great ornament of gold . and silver tissue, whose petal-like curves enfold round a heart of gold-—-and of green and ruby red jewels.