The Lingerie Frill.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 1 November 1911, Page 69

The Lingerie Frill.

In Paris there is little short of a craze for the new jabot frill, made of finest cambric edged with real lace, and measuring from four to six inches wide, which is worn with almost every tailormade costume. Tfhese frills cost practically anything that a. buyer cares to give; beginning at a couple of shillings or so apiece when made in muslin amt edged with imitation lace, they very soon run into two or three pounds each when fashioned of hand-embroidered lawn and trimmed with hand-made hiee and insertion. They are exceedingly smart and are made without a collar, attached to a narrow band of insertion that forms the front, the wide frill being worn well over on one side. They are invaluable, for freshening up a blouse or shirt, and several shops are selling them in little sets, which are composed of one frill and a pair of wrist frills to match. Black and white is the basis of nearly all tailored hats. Some of the shapes have white crowns and narrow black

brims, others are of white and faced or bound in black velvet. Standing bows of wide and dashing ribbons are favourite trimmings for these chapeaux. One of the most charming hats that I have seen is a high crowned shape of white Milan, bound with black velvet with a standing bow of wide striped black-and-white ribbon. In a. word picture it may sei m extreme, but. the hat is not halt as daring as one may imagine. A fascinating deini tailored hat with white straw crown and black brim had a large flat bow of black velvet at the left side almost in.the back and a tiny nosegay of forget me knots and a few pink rosebuds at the right side front. Either of these hats might be easily made by the woman who has the knack of making bows and who understands the selection of shapes most becoming to her face. Quills are again in favour! But this time Fashion has put them at tire baek of the hats. It is a clever move! rhe favourite quill hat is a saucer turban with a dome-shuped crown, with quills slanted across, the back. The romuF brim and the round <-r<»wn overcome'* the severe angle of the quills. Sailor hats undoubtedly will enjoy a vogue again, because they have been created in new and not such severe srhapt’s. Some have high crowns and narrow rolled brims—all one colour, or with a white crown ami coloured brims. For athletic women there are larger shapes, but all have turned brims.