Fashionable Accessories.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 69

Fashionable Accessories.

Now that we are standing on the threshold of the summer season the minor details of dress including neckwear are of topical importance. Illustrated on 'this page are many fascinating ideas, which the woman who is clever with her needle can make for herself from those many oddments picked up at the sales.

The three phases of the Shelley collar are extremely attractive, two with and one without a jabot. Now that there are signs on the horizon that the carefully boned bodice with the material up to the throat will make its debut in the near future, it is safe to predict that these collars will be requisitioned to break the severity of line. The collar tiands with turnover Puritan collars look extremely smart with corsages of this persuasion, and are certainly more appropriate for those who have passed the summer of life.

Attention must be drawn to the vest of tucked net, which in order to be thoroughly practical should be provided with strings to hold it in position. This model is quite unrivalled for girls lor wearing with their blue-serge and other frocks. The majority of school authorities commend this style, as they contend, and justly, that laee or net sleeves for children in the schoolroom are quite oct of place, as after they have been worn a few hours they lose their first fresh ness. Another advantage of this vest is that it can easily lie removed. J*

l!n over the heads. These bunches will went the linen viipboar.Ja until next ■ummei'a supply of "Jwadowsweet conies. AS TRIMMING, is, of course, by no means a novel idea, but as it is just now, to give the only touch of colour to a costume, 5t is, 1 think, new. tine pretty coat ami Bkirt shown last week was of black ant yliite striped tweed, the edge of the foal revere, round the back only-, having ii strap of dull blue suede attached, and the cufls edged with it also. Small tabs of suede were let into the bottom of the Vide revere in front and the neat holi tlay hat, for wear with the dress, was of blue straw to match the suede. lIORRI.ES IN AMERICA. Whether American women are more terrifying and heartless in their passion for fashion than Englishwomen who

often astound Colonials by their obedience to tlie capricious dame, I am not in a position to know, but the following hotiee concerning the hobble skirt is cut from a recent New York journal, amt appears to ted a mournful tale: - “Altnougu the reign of the hideous hobble skirt is practically over, it leaves a record of misery in its trail which is unparalleled in the whole history of fashion. Through its disgraceful vogue 3000 null girl- are now without work, owing to the closing down of the mills. r l :ic demand for cloth has so decreased through the small quantities needed for ithc hobble skirts that nearly half the

mills in the State of Rhode Island have completely tailed. So great is the po aer of fashion, and so thoughtless the women who pander to it!’’ CAMEO TRIMMING. Cameos are now used as ornaments on some of the smartest iiat.% whilst other cameos are used to catch up the draperies of skirts or as the fastening ornaments for sashes. BETTER THAN A BODKIN. When running’ribbons through lingerie insertions, ii is a good plan to use a tsmall safety pin, fastened in th«» end of the ribbon, instead of a bodkin. There is then no fear of the ribbon becoming unthreaded, and the pin will not catch in the insert : on. THE NEWEST FABRIC . on the dress market is soie-serge. in appearance this is a kind of bengaline

or Ottoman, silk; the colour is almost invariably I lack or navy blue, but the silk does not i cully belong to cither of the varieties named, but much more resembles serge of a similarly tine Avill, to which a silken surface has been given. A TOILET HINT for those worried by the tine creases appearing on their brows is the following:— To a basin of hot water add a few drops of ammonia. Soak in this some strips of flannel, wring them out. and lay them on the lines, covering them with a warm towel. After a few minutes

take off the flannel and dry the face with soft linen. The lines must never be rubbed, but only patted when drying or applying cream. Hot olive oil should now be patted thoroughly in. ten minutes being given to this treatment, then wipe off the oil,, and pat in pure wool fat v patting on the lines, not along or across them. Allow the wool fat to remain on the face for an hour before removing the superfluous grease for the night. This treatment must be persevered in for a fortnight, by which time the underlying tissues should be plumped and the forehead be smooth and white. HAND EMBROIDERED VEILS are among the latest presents made to friends in Paris. CRUEL MILLINERY. In the fashionable shopping streets of London this week the progress of a

troop of ten sandwich-men bearing posters illustrating the cruelty caused by the smart society woman who insists upon having her millinery trimmed with the delicate ospreys of the egret caused much interest. The Royal Society fur the Protection of Birds is responsible fur the crusade.