WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

Once those, who look out eagerly for I iovel ideas in the small odds and ends, which stand for so mucH in the eyes of most - women| got their "inspirations from Paris, and during the season from femart "plages" such as Deauville. I'rouville, and Biarritz used in prewar days to be. To-day we turn our eyes to America for- suggestions in such as work-bags. At Palm Beach, Florida, which is one of the • summer...-resortsA for American- -millionaires, the novelty of the.' summer, .which is just over,-was having-one's ,work-bag and seaside hat to match. ; There is nothing very complicated about the notion, for it only means • tha.t, instead of , buying one untrininied shape, you buy two, and the spare • ':one "is lined, and then finished by a surplus piece of the hat trimming. - This should be run round the edge of ■the hat brim, and the opening-is 'finished off' by v a'deep"lKem.'and • draw-, string. Of course; this is only a bald description of the idea which could be" developed in ; many ways. However. ; the ordinary cheap Panama or rushhat, which is so often chosen as being, all that is needed for a few weeks' holiday, will be found to make a capital work-bag if treated in this way.

■ A growing fancy is to have both blouses and' sports coats made on the "slip-on" principle. This'means that there is no fastening of hooks or but-' tons, either at back or front, but a deep V opening at the neck allows, the easy play of the arms, and a nice adjustment of the shoulders, v as the garment is slipped on over the head. The model is almost the same shape as a man's sweater, but made much looser, and,* for; the"rest, is -liko an ordinary spirts or blouse coat. In order to give plenty of freedom in material that' does not. stretch, it is desirable that the' garment bo cut down the centre for i f|» inches below the V lieck, and' this opening is drawn together, by means of velvet ribbon laced .through hand-made eyelet or buttonholes'. This lacing can be losed as the blouse is put on, and then drawn together in order to ensure a becoming effect.' This slip-on idea is also carried out in the little camisoles of lace and ribbon which aTe worn so much under semi-transparent blouses, and, , though there, is _nothing gained by making theiri according to this design it is a novelty. In a recent letter a Melbourne girl travelling in tho United States says that the slip-on knitted sweaters for girls' is a craze of the moment, ■ and she and her friends are busily employed- in knitting them, for wear when the cold weather sets 'in. ■