SOME STAGE FASHIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 19

SOME STAGE FASHIONS

FOOTLIGHT FROCKS By Joan Rossiter. The stage does not always provide practical examples of the dresses we might, wear, but it is fascinating to follow them because, when modified, they very often set the fashion for the coming season. Just now, when one finds difficultv in deciding what can be called really fashionable for next season, the stage may be relied upon to provide some indication of what we may see in the world at large. According to this guide, deep silk fringe will be a very popular trimming. Many stage frocks, whether for dancing or dining, are adorned with much fringe. One well-known actress, playing in London, is wearing a black chiffon gown, with fringe arranged in semi-circles all around the skirt. A narrow panel of chiffon floats from one of her shoulders, and there is a knot of red and cream roses at her waist. This actress has a passion for green, and in one scene she wears jade slippers with her jade gown, which is trimmed with diamente in the same shade. SCARVES ON SUITS

Jumper suits showing' some quite practical ideas are seen in many of the new plays. In one thrilling play, a white jumper suit is made with a scarf end lined with scarlet which winds around the wearer’s neck, and there is a row of big white buttons down the middle of the back.

Cocoa is the colour of the crepe de chine from which is made another stage jumper suit. This has the inevitable pleated skirt, on which appear bands of a darker coco-colour. Cuffs and revers are also of the darker shade. Where the play demands pyjamas, these are always very wonderful creations. In one new play the heroine is murdered in nothing less delightful than velvet pyjamas patterned all over with purple rhododendrons and green leaves!

Apricot is, at the moment, a very popular colour on the stage, both for furnishings and frocks. One young actress makes a great impression in a deep orange frock over a frilly petticoat of apricot, but such a blending of colours might not be nearly so successful away from the footlights. UNUSUAL SCHEMES

A very chic blouse of apricot georgette is worn with a well-cut navy costume, by a leading lady, as a travelling outfit.

Perhaps one of the most delightfullydressed plays one could possibly witness, is that being shown in Paris in which fashions from 1830 to JS6O are portrayed. Here are many modes for those who are attracted by the ’ period” vogue.

In tliis French play, such unusual schemes as a white taffetas frock covered with brown flowers are seen, the crinoline skirt is trimmed with flounces of plain white silk bound with brown, and a frill of white silk beneath the berthe forms almost a cap® over the balloon sleeves. Eneirelinr the waist of this frock is a broad brown ribbon.

* n . th ® sa me period play, a pink taffetas fiock, patterned with, wavy lines of black ribbon opens over a white petticoat, and in this frock all the edges are scalloped. The amount of ribbon on one white muslin yards 1S Sai<3 to run into a hundred KITCHENER SCOUTS The members of the committee and he Scouts and Cubs of the First Kitchener Troop of Boy Scouts assembled in the Mount Eden Presbvterian Church Hall last evening on the occasion of the presentation of a swastika (thanks badge) to Mrs. J. Anderson, the retiring member of the •ommittee. The chairman of the troop committee, Mr. A. K. Brown, when making the presentation referred' to Mrs Anderson’s six years’ faithful service for the troop, and conveyed to her the thanks of the committee, troop and pack. The Rev. Leonard H. Hunt, troop chaplain, Scoutmaster A. S. Oxley Cubmaster A. J. Gaily, and Mr. E. T. O. Downard, secretary of committee, also spoke in appreciative terms of Mrs. Anderson’s service. Prior to the presentation six scouts took the oath and were sworn in to the Boy Scout Movement. The Bull Patrol, under the leadership of PatrolLeader Anderson, was declared winners of the patrol competition and presented with an annual of ’ The Scout” by the scoutmaster. A light supper handed round by the boys brought a pleasant evening to a close.