LONDON FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 1600, 31 May 1924, Page 15 (Supplement)

LONDON FASHIONS.

EAR-RINGS. (By a Lady Correspondent.) Every clay—and night—and in every way, car-rings grow longer and long- ' er—more elaborately and barbarically f beautiful, and more becoming too, | while it is noteworthy that the women ! wilh boyishly "shingled" hair seem to choose the very extreme styles in these most feminine of adornments. And at the Shaftesbury first night of " The Rising Generation " all records of hair-shortness and ear-ring-length were broken —wilh most piquantly successful results—by an uncommonly pretty woman, whose diamond earrings almost 'touched her shoulder, while another of her covetable possessions was a cloak of the fashionable Dcgu fur —otherwise chinchilla rat—the skins being so cleverly worked that they formed a definite patterning of stripes, while a lining of velvet in the turquoise blue which is one of the most favoured evening colours just now, was a perfect contrast for all the subtle grey shadings of the fur. Though so closely cut at the, back, her brown hair took a softly side-parted sweep over , the forehead and ihe cars: but in one of the boxes another woman—blackgowned tnd sumptuously cloaked in kolinsky—wearing diamond car-rings almost a.i long as that first pair, bad her blacK hair drawn right back from her face and ears, and twisted into a low coil at flie hack: while a I bird

pair o( long diamond ear-rings adorned and beautified Marie Lohr. whose fair hair was just coiled close to her head beneath a wide, sfraighl and of silver lace on which curved a coronal of black velvet leaves. So is if (o be wondered at thai long ear-rings are so popular, seeing that they can I bus suit to equal perfection three such entirely different types of wearers and coiffures'? You must know, 100. thai Marie Bohr bad adopted Ihe cither new jewellery fashion of Lwo long contrasting necklaces, one, being of pearls and Ihe other of black onyx and diamonds. Hut as consolation for those of you wiio may only be able to manage one. and I who want that one to be both inexpensive and, effective, lei, me tell you that I here are now obtainable, for about six and a half guineas, some long chains of Swiss turquoise matrix, whose gorgeously .blue beads are divided iby liny crystals, while another novelty necklace, in Swiss lapis lazuli beads, also gams in effccit by Hie contrast of the white brilliance of dividing eryslals. Evening Gowns.

And now, if you are wavering in your choice between a new -eveninggown of velvet, •or of gold tissue, for winter wear, perhaps if may help you to decide if you know that the very latest velvet model from Paris is of delicate blossom pink embroidered wilii crystals which shade from while to pale and deeper pink, ihe back following c!osel\ every curve of (lie Figure, while in froid Ibis slraighlness is broken by Ihe godel fullness of an apron-tunic bordered wilh brown moufflon (uv. and canglil at the left side, of The low waist-line jnto a (altering roll of gathered velvet, the resulting silhouette being exceedingly fascinating. Then a wonderful new tissue gown at first fnouls the lgure softly, while Ihe skirl is cut on the cross, so that the marabout-bordered

bom lakes an outward flare all round, a sash knotted at flic side revealing til secret of the ever-changing shadings of the golden fabric, its reverse side being of satin with a patterning of many colours.