SPEAKING OF FASHIONS ...

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 63, 6 August 1947, Page 7

SPEAKING OF FASHIONS ...

That pretty pale-beige shade that has a creamy look has been named “mignonette” by a New York designer, and the popular pebble colour is now known as greige, a combination of grey and beige, which it is. * * * * “Where else but in America,” asks Hattie Carnegie, New York designer, “can a woman find clothes that can carry her through many hours of her married 'life? Suits that can go out in the morning to shop, to charity meetings, to luncheon, through the afternoon, to cocktails, can be worn, by removing the jacket, to the theatre and dancing. * * * * Ilka Chase, American columnist and novelist, is of the opinion that a woman should divide up the price of a dress as she divides the mileage on a car. “Suppose a dress costs you 100 dollars (£25),” suggests Ilka. “All right, you wear it once and the price is very high. But you wear it twice and what’s happened? Fifty dollars each time. Still awful, but persevere. You wear the dress three times; 33.33 dollars. Already it’s less gruesome. Ten* times is 10 dollars. A dress for 10 dollars, cheap. Wear it enough and it comes out free.” * * * * In the future there will be ‘no ladder” stockings on the market, says an overseas newspaper. They will be 50 per cent, stronger than the ordinary type. Hard wear will put holes in the heels and toes in the usual way; but holes can be darned, it is only ladders that turn a good pair of stockings into throwouts. These stockings are made lad-der-proof by a new knitting process. A double needle bar ‘locks” every sitch and gives the stockings a wonderful elasticity. The new type of stockings will cost about 2s to 2s 6d more than stockings made in the ordinary way. * * H> * “Turtle Dove” beige, so pale in tone as to be almost natural, is used by Lilly Dache, famous New York milliner, in her spring collection. “True purple” is one of the most talked of colours in the new silks and rayons - being shown in Paris. There are few prints being exported from France which do not'-reiterate the purple range with fuchsia, mauve, orchid and lavender for the lighter notes. “Pink rocket” and “pink meteor” are two lovely new rose tones used by (sdette Barsa, American designer, in an Easter collection of boudoir robes. More subtle notes are struck by green orchid and yellow iris.