A CHARMING COSTUME.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 32, 22 May 1924, Page 1

A CHARMING COSTUME.

Certainly fashions are very interesting just now, and it seems the aim of fashion-makers to introduce surprise” effects. Lines run irregularly, draperies arc arranged in new ways, nmi materials are mixed with ail sorts of carious effects. ‘‘Draperies and more draperies” is (lie cry, for women find draperies of the classic kind very becoming, and

No. ii a. dressmakers can get wonderful results from simple as well as expensive material by beautifully-arranged folds. Of course the draped frock is not the least expensive of modes, because drapery means extra material; but the clever dressmaker can arrange delightful effects with only a very slight amount of drapery, and’ sometimes, of course, the dm per v is confined to merely a few folds on the skirt or at the waist - if the garment concerned, for instance. The charming 41 costume illustrated, i~ distinguished by a draped skirt and a coat cut in a new way, the front : being' shorter than the sides and hack. The suit is developed in mastic coloured duvetvn, and the coat, to which the trimming is confined, is cut with magvar sleeves and fastens on the left side with three big buttons. The trimming consists of pasliles of black paimc Veivet, framed in black stitching, and is very effective on the light background The sides of the coat, hanging scftjx below the front, give a charming and quaint outline, and the drapery of the skirt, beginning where it docs, carries on the line of the coat-fastening and thus adds to the harmony of toe cost u me The neck is encircled by a collar of kirk fur, and crowning all is a picture; lilt of black panne-velvet, with an nn- ; usvj.nl brim and a round Town, the note of black from the head-wear linking up the hat with the costume-trimming. The shoes illustrated arc of black patent leather, with high fronts, bringing forward the note of black again.