THE WORLD OF FASHION

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 24, 15 December 1906, Page 52

THE WORLD OF FASHION

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MARGUERITE

Distinctive Features of the Season’s Flowers.

One sees. too, the hat with triple brim, each one of whieh is a different shade of dyed Panama, pale blue, mauve, and grey being often used in combination. It is trimmed, with lialc, hydiangeas or heliotrope. or even with mimosa, in shades which represents such a perversion of Nature as would horrify the ardent horticulturist. It is noticeable, however, that for the most part the flowers of the season are carried out in the natural

colours and blended together in harmonies whieh testify to the aitistic tastes of the modern milliner. Calceolaria, in ifs genuine golden hue spotted with brown, is a revival which is very popular from a millinerial point of view, and it will be extensively i sed to trim the new crin bats. There must again this summer be a complete understanding between the toil ette worn and the millinery. The organ, die muslin dresses that are so light anil pretty and of such soft pastel shades de maud the bergere hat -•'.ade of crinoline Leghorn, or Tuscan straw.

The bergere is usually trimmed with the old-world looking ribbon known this summer as Coventry, interwoven with blurred flowers, and in many instances given a background of gold, which Is twisted in the most artistic manner pos sible about the crown, and carried tied behind to form a caehepeigne. Trimmed with field flowers and plenty of grass or corn, sometimes absurdly rendered in glittering gold, such hats are charming. But they do not in the least become a Directoire costume whieh will only find its final note of satisfaction in a less sylvan-looking piece of millinery. The Directoire mousseline de soie dress de-

mands, as all muslin does, a hat that is fairly large, so the milliners are issuing the newly fashionable tall crowns and

sweeping brims, which they decorate with tufts of ostrich plumage, showing vivid contrasts in colouring.