The World of Fashion.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 20, 14 May 1913, Page 69

The World of Fashion.

By

MARGUERITE.

Hats and Furs. For the moment, the small hat dominates in Paris, and at the race meeting at Longehamp, where one always sees the very latest things in dress, it is almost the only hat worn. White velvet toques, with lull crowns and a border o' dark fur, with a lovely white aigrette, or perhaps a black one, are very smart; so are cream plush toques with blaek velvet turned-back brims, and an aigrette as the only trimming. Violet velvet toques with fur borders are also worn, and thete is a certain hat with a brim which reaches out behind and is cut short in front, which is very smart in shape, and which are seen in mole plush, with a violet aigrette as the one ornament. All hats are worn well on the head, and, although the fashion does not suit every woman, it is without doubt the only comfortable way in which to wear headcoverings. Some women do not even wear hat-pins, a fashion which is excellent for the hair, but they tie a big veil all over the hat, pin it at the back of the neck, and no wind will make a hat so protected budge an inch. Fashionable Peltry. Big, soft, supple ermine stoles will be worn a great deal by all who can afford such a luxury. Skunk stoles, as soft and supple as possible, will also be worn, so will stoles of opossum, squirrel, sable, and chinchilla; but fox will be used less as a long stole tod more as a throat gripper. The animal’s head, will fasten the fur under the left ear of the wearer, and the tail will hang either down the back or down the front of the figtire. Ermine will be used with all grey and

biack furs, and the little black tails will l>e made into fringe, if used at all. Muffs are as large as ever, and everyone who can will have them all of fur, choosing only as a fantasy those made up of brocaded velvet trimmed with fur or of chiffon and velvet, or chiffon and I’oses. Nevertheless, velvet |and fur muffs and stoles will be smart wear this winter, for furs are growing more and more expensive, and to use fur alone means spending a lot of money. Another feature of some of the tailormade costumes which deserves special notice is the high upstanding collar-band of fur. This is, perhaps, one of the most economical methods of using peltry which could possibly be imagined, as it does away at once with the necessity for a stole, while the big soft velvet muff, hemmed on each side with a band of tffo same fur a,s that which appears on the coat, is another complement to it which is decidedly in favour of small purses.