WHAT TO WEAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1467, 15 June 1912, Page 11

WHAT TO WEAR.

Tho more wo see and hear of coming spring modes, tho more certain the introduction of tho pannier appears (says an' Australian writer). So far there is not much to admire about it. The old-time ideas of the pannier were distinctly picturesque, but designers do not seem to have got the idea of outline in the modern revivals. The back aspect is especially ungraceful, not to say ugly. Women with good figures have nothing to sain by

wearing the pannier modes, and those with big hips will look broader than ever. At present, every bit of drapery is so badly balanced that skirts have tho appearance of being put on hind side before. The best results are obtained on : evening dresses. The whole aspect of these is now altered, and very lovely are the various materials used for pannier purposes. Lace especially is producing charming effects. It-is now so charmingly mingled with the brocade and pretty silks of the moment that there is very little difference between smart day dresses, and evening ones.

It is many years since lace was. as popular as now, even the real varieties aro having a big season abroad. The imitations aro, however, so good that it requires an expert to tell one kind from another. Again, coarse lace of the guipure varieties is just as much favoured/ as the very fine kinds. Tulle in black, white, and in colours is always a delightful material for young people's wear. At the present moment it is much favoured for smart, fluffy neck wear, and for sleeves as well as frills. It also forms trains which in a very modified way, suggest the old-time waterfall. May its. shadow grow bigger, and end in bringing that graceful style of dress into voguo again, for there is no doubt that a more voluminous and ft much more elaboratel.ydraped evening skirt is an established fact. Yards and yards.of laoe and embroidered tulle are lavished on the newest evening dresses and none of these have anything in common with, the little dance frock of the last two or three seasons. Tho colour-mingling of these new evenin? dresses, too, is most inviting.

More. attention than ever is now given to the etceteras of evening dress, and especially in the matter of silk stockings, shoes, hair ornaments, scarves, and fans. Pink is one of the most popular colours of the season, and for that reason fleshettlfrlurad hosiery is considered very smart. Evening gloves are very long, and are worn to fit tight up to tho elbow, and very much wrinkled on the upper part of the arm.