FASHION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5416, 26 April 1929, Page 4

FASHION.

FASHION CASTS! A SILVER SPELL. It will be a silver, season' this winter. The majority of the ne.w metal tissues, and lames shown at the Pari® dress collections are silver in colouring. some of the velvets which will be usied for t.he new Autumn models are sprinkled with silver circles the size of a shilling. Buckles arq made of steel. Buttons of Mother-of-pearl or cut. steel give; a silver note to the new hats, jumpers and) gloves. Hair c’ombs and the latest semiprecious ornaments arq set in marcasite. Expensive jewellery is almost universally set iji platinum instead gold. Evening slippers are embellished with narrow strappings of! silver kid or silver threads aftid diamante buckles encased in silver settings. Even the house js coming under thq spell of the silver vogue, same ■ of the new frames for mirrors have narrow bands of silver in. conjunction ■ with coloured enamels. Certain types of pictures ares given their mounts of " silver instead of gold!. {Occasionally looking glares are absolutely frameless. They are held with cut glass or silver “pins.” Modern furnishers are Using sjlver paper as a decorative medium. In one rooim I saw the m'oKt striking, note was a flight of sjjlvqr' paper swallows pasted, against a pWle tinted wall. Antique silver is once more* a favourite wedding present. Even Chirva manufacturers' have fallen under the spell. T'Tiei newest china is given bands of aluminium in the pla'c.e ofl the gilt bands wlhidh had* became, inseparable from the ditfner and tea services of the past. As for the kitchens cvqn the brass kettles and pans have been replaced by shiny silvery aluminiums. GLOVHS. Brilliantty.tinted gloves will f° rm a striking feature in thei out-of-door equipment; for motoring and walking this ,wintier. Made of light s.uedej c,r doeskin, these gloves are dyed! in deep shades of red or green and heavily * sfcitqbqil in thick silk of the same ‘tint. They look very smart worn • with leathqr coats or (with tweed or woollen ensembles,