SYDNEY FASHIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 3

SYDNEY FASHIONS.

Linen was or.co so popular that a day fop ' , its' wear at the' races .usad to be an institution. Linen mount an off-day for dress; it : meant a day of simplicity.' Its simplicity was. ; .'j l comparatively'inexpensive. There \vas' no ;! reason why it. should' bn chcap. The rather/ - harsh material was difficult to .handle; it had:, to bo'stitctidd and elaborated Very much tko; : i snmd as other materials. This year (says .a ~ i Sydney paper) oven lite - pretence .to plainness- \ lias, been cast aside, and the few linen dresses , , S that were worn- at Randwick oil tho supposed -j linen day had ro distinction j' their old assert' ! . tive air was gone. • ;; Cottons wore, however, largely used,; dis- | gnised 'as .chilfon voiles, printedI 1 muslins, and crepes, and were al- \ ~'' moat as lovely in their airiness as ; i V ■' the more costly ehili'onsl, martens-... • ,A ... cttes, iiml taliota's. Chiffons hav-„ ihg rich a .'rid artistic designs blown--1 on them by a how electric proces/t' ,„j rw*-/ \ that is riot, possible' on' this "side? .' f vXsS, of the'world,.held pride of place,;'j y,'-;. As they do riot stand alone, - but f ■ need many underskirts of otlior. .; ..... . ■ chilTons,- or- llimsy and costly?. materials, before the silk foundn- x ' :i . tion is reached, tflOir wear may be\- ! called "exclusive,"-or only possible i .'.for the. . few. At a., Govern--. ij ment'.Hdnso. gahlcn .party the "few" seemed - ;; to bo in a; lai'Ko majority. , .] : i Shantung takes the place of linen this sea- j son. Its silken texture is rather lost in its ! heaviness. It lends itself to a certain sort of, 1 severe design afTocteil~by. some women -who, see no'incongruity ifi'frivol, and hardness.",' It' is sparingly used ut,;the spring as.j. it docs not adapt itself-to the flowing skirts and 'pretty draperies that are the feature of ; to-day. ; 'V": - , "I wore"'a .blue'shantung and 'a-'cotton hat," remarked, a: visijiinit '.natron./ '.' Surely . ' you saw me." -The "combination war,",rare, and,- unless carried out without the simplicity. ..implied,.-.would' } have .been very- notice-? 'j able. .. •: - ' Cottons, with their-'beautiful- designs" tot 11 .;. graceful stripes, can bo. treated with oven f ir.oro caro in their structure! than, the :> ials thiit.'arb mbref costly,"in' thomsclf.cs.';'An,.'-'-' ',! industrious"'worker,'oiic whv. spond much'' • .-J of, lior .lifo v wit-h; her needle; making) late."or, \ ;■ padding, bits, of -silk into the. grapes-arid eher- ;! ries that ;are such-,a novol' ndornment, can v ' blossom outwith much- effcct. and compare - ' ;; bravely with any f other ' .daintily-dressed ... . | maiden at entertainments.' _ ... , Simplicity,".however''costly it mayV.be,riii not. ;tnis. season' ip' Jaybur/.-'Abundant. hair, A ;thi>.t,.V is* just ' shcitcral by mushroom or; : , cooped 'hats, would. notJook- well .witlutlio >• with . its;itilf ( ,ban'd that could bo. L' .» wo'rnVwith tho plainattire-sometimesnffccted j •in the far away days of , a season ago. ".' ,j