TOILET ACCESSORIES

Shannon News, 16 March 1926, Page 4

TOILET ACCESSORIES

The girl who loves dancing—ione night as well at once say “every girl" recognises the importance of those little accessories that make a simple frock seem like an expensive creation from the Rue de la Paix, says a wellknown writer. Dance frocks, afternoon or evening, are made or marred by the presence, or absence, of uncommon etceteras. Ear-rings play a leading role in this connection. They seem to grow longer and longer—more and more ornate. Happily many of the specially effective models are comparatively inexpensive; large thin rings of coral with a smaller ring of blue enamel swinging inside an da still smaller ring of strass as a centre; or long lozenges of golden amber swing loose from tiny marcassite shains with \ a single ball of crystal close to the lobe of the ear. The correct thing is to have a long neckchain to match your ornate ear-rings or a pendant which hangs from a narrow black moire ribbon. The touch of colour in the ornaments should be repeated somewhere, on the close-fitting hat for tea-dances, or on the shoulder-bouquet with an evening frock. A Parisian novelty takes the form of velvet ribbon bracelets finished with long loops add ends the bracelet fastened by small paste buckles or flat buttons. These ribbon wristbands look well with short-sleev-ed frocks. The floating scarf of hand-painted chiffon, which is attached to the left shoulder and then carelesly thrown round the neck, is still a /tremendous favourite. An exquisite scarf of this order was made of silver tulle and decorated with quaint Chinese designs—wee men and women with ivory faces and gaudy clothes with, here and there, a green tree and a brown roof. This scarf was worn with a black crepe de chine frock and a particularly smart little hat made of silver kid. Shoes are of the first importance. The latest dance shoe for wearing with black satin or crepe de chine frocks is made of silver kid piped with red leather and black-heeled. The other afternoon, at one of the, most' favoured dance places. I saw a pretty girl wearing shoes of this kind with a gored frock of black charmeuse which was hemmed with smoke-grey sfox. Her stockings were pale silver grey, her pull-on hat of silver through one side. Perched On the left shoulder was a camellia in exactly the same shade of red as the pipings of the shoes. Long, red, enamel ear-rings swinging from diamend chaine finished a remarkably effective toilette.