FASHION JOTTINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 156, 1 June 1940, Page 11

FASHION JOTTINGS.

A typical bit of Parisian nonsense is a cigarette lighter, made in the shape of a little fish with ruby eyes, which is marvellously flexible, and wriggles about when you hold it in vour hand The importance of black lace is emphasised in a summery frock of starched white muslin with black Chantilly lace appliqued in panniers. Balenciaga uses silk faille, stiff and rustling, in black and palest blue, foi a charming dinner, gown. ' Chanel’s finest black net gloves are encrusted with a lovely leaf design in black lace across the back of the hands Brighten your winter wardrobe wit! a “Joseph’s” coat in glowing six-inch checks of heather, jade, and cyclamen, cut to swing free from the shoulders. The most knowing hand can only look helplessly Victorian in Bobert Piquet’s mittens of fine black crocheted braiding tied with grosgrain ribbon. To wear over your new black frock order a coat in bright mimo'e yellow, and have a handbag to match. Short and sweet as a little flowergirl’s are a pair of white pique gloves for evening, with artless daisies and white bows at the wristline. It is new to wear a blouse so thin that your lingerie—sometimes threaded with black velvet ribbon —shows through.