THE WORLD OF FASHION.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 5

THE WORLD OF FASHION.

NO MORE HIGH HAT! ! No more high-hat! The occasional effort to introduce high-crowned hats to the heads of women of fashion meets with dismal failure. Women “will na be fashed” with freakish headgear these days. They want smartness; they demand chic; but they refuse to suffer discomfort. Caprice has sent them lo the other extreme. Skull caps are the mode, These are set well back on the head—in the way Crandpa wears his aid lo baldness. These new skull caps ran he very cute. The hair is smoothed to a rap-Shape and the duekv little bit of new fashion is rimmed by a glossy •smooth roll of hair at the nape of the neck. Some are peaked slightly- hut and roll turned up in front. Fashion favours silver fox, so they **a> ; loil few are the lucky folk to have the lo\e| y things l-> wear. Thev are most hocming to women, dark -o- fair. The silver • i? , JHsl , I topping on a reallv Mark fur. Now that furs are scarce and there is a trend toward ’Tear’ fur against ‘ae mutation kind that has had a run.

t the designers are meeting the dim- j culty by using scarves and hows of ricli velvet and the fur is put on as an edge. Every hit of fur thus lias its full value in display. If you are “thinking out” your coat for cold weather, remember that sleeves will be quite different. The great idea is to have them flared near the wrist and firmed out with a rich trimming and a lining, so that they are very like a muff. Also, you may have a comparatively ! narrow sleeve set in neatly at the armholes hut flaring out below the elbow and then drawn into a cuff. These ' are lined in sucli a way as to form pockets, secured by elastic in shirred silk. Verv handy for .all the odds and j ends and hankies. An Informal evening frock.—Use I line art georgette, sleeveless and with ' a pleated side frill. Willi this, have j a coaloe in black willi exotic flowers j embroidered in hunches over it. j To rest and brighten the eyes, have j a mixture of liqird boraric and rose "flier, hip mtlon wool into this, and