BACK TO BROWN AND BEIGE

Shannon News, 4 June 1929, Page 4

BACK TO BROWN AND BEIGE

THE NEW COLOURS FQR„ .FROCKS

A NOVELTY SCARP RING

Nobody seems very surprised to find our old friends, brown and beige, included in the newest list of fashionable colourings. Be;ge never goes out, and as women insist upon wearing it both m the daytime and at night, the designers find themselves obliged, to choose another colour which looks well with it. Mot that beige cannot bo made to tone with every imaginable* shade. But there is no doubt that. it make? a very successful combination , with brown and, as materials go .those',days, one that is specially attractive. ? I saw an evening ’frock expressed in N these two shades the other day. The skirt had the “peacock line”---droop- ‘ ing to the ankles at the back—and was composed entirely, of tiny frills of mushroom beige net. The corsage, moulded to the figure and with a,- most distinctive natural waistline, was of cocoa brown silk patterned with a tiny flower.

h There is a great demand just now for the frock with a skirt in a lighter shade than the corsage. The style takes a little getting used to, probably because we have grown so accustomed to, the lighter shade being on top, as if were. But the fashion is a very pretty one, if carried out artistically and with due regard for the texture of the two materials. Silk Net Frocks. Silk net is evidently the successor of taffetas. Every second dance frock seems to be made of it and it is so light and pretty that no one is surprised at the choice. Naturally, all the silk net frocks are fuller than those we have had for the last few seasons, and most of them have uifeven hem ines. They all have their scarves, too. and, where the corsage is of silk and the skirt of net, the scarf matches the heavier material. A pretty idea for scarves just now is to thread them through a ring. To match a gold or yellow scarf there is an amber ring. Or you may have. jade, mother o ’ pearl, a bright enamel, or a gold ring set with ffarge coloured stone. The evening scarf has its ends drawn through the ring, which is secured by an invisible safety-chain to the shoulder strap of the frock. In the daytime,, when the scarf matches a jumper suit or a coat and skirt, or even an untrimmed wrap, the ring may be of either of these, or of suede, but it. carries on the front a little bunch of artificial flowers to tone with the suit or costume. New Stocking Colours. There are no pink stockings now—according to the dictators of fashion. The rose-beige shade has gone, and in its place there is beige proper, a beige with a champagne tint about it, and another that it slightly grey in tone. But even smarter than these are all the pale cocoa and bronze shades, and die lovely ash and mocha and Hazel lints. They have the advantage,'.being' deeper in shade than the pinks, of making ankles look much'slimmer than they really are. and for that reason alone the fashion experts predict, a tremendous run for them in the next few months.

It is not an economy to. buy gunmctal stockings, for there is no pros- 1 poet of their, popularity increasing. They were to lead us gradually back to the fine black stocking, but, so far, women will have none —or, at any rate,, very little—of them.