FRILLS FADS & FOIBLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

FRILLS FADS & FOIBLES

Gold Thread Popular in Paris Modes Glint is Seen in Stripes, Flowers and Linings of Garments PARIS, October 11. WOOLLEN materials are now often woven with gold thread. Skirts are threaded with gold, and the glint of gold is seen in stripes and flowers, and in linings, that are put into most garments whether of plaid, beiege velvet or fur. White and gold are for the South; black, red and gold for the North; and when a cluster of bright colours is woven into a pattern gold is the background. In afternoon and evening dresses black and gold are often combined. With a black velvet dress and coat there will be a gold lame jumper, with long sleeves and high neck, the coat is lined with lame and trimmed with golden brown fur. If there is no lame, embroidery gives the touch of gold, or there will be a gold necklace.

TRIMMED WIT EMBROIDERY Black satin dresses are trimmed with gold embroidery and braid. Black moire, lame gold and gold buttons make another combination of black and gold. Black cloth coats are trimmed with golden brown fur, lined with gold lame, and worn over black georgette dresses trimmed with gold embroidery, fringe or a lame sash. Black broadtail coats are lined with checked lume.

Fur and velvet evening wraps are lined with lame. There are also dresses of brocaded lame, gauze and lace. Manv gold dresses are • copied fro 1 Persian pictures and have an Oriental richness. Colour gleams softly through the gold, and jewels make belts and embroideries. Jewelled buckles clasp draperies to the hip; a jewelled band runs round the throat. Wherever there is gold tissue on an evening dress the ornaments can bo coloured jewels. Gold-tissue shoes are richly jewelled, too, and when a headdress is worn it is Oriental.

In direct contrast to all this there are neat little cloth, silk or Kasha dresses, ample round the knees, slim about the hips, and slender in outline. Over them may be long coats of cloth and fur, or fur or velvet. A coloured dress under a black coat, or a dress and coat to match is for the afternoon. For the evening there are dance dresses of georgette, lace, tulle and georgette trimmed with velvet. In

all afternoon and evening dresses there is some fullness about the skirt. FOR THE WHITE-HAIRED For a white-haired woman there may be a black crepe satin dinner dress with a pointed drapery falling from one shoulder, and from the opposite hip a long skirt drapery; on the shoulder there is a small diamond clasp, on the hip a larger one. A girl will wear a black georgette dress striped with chiffon velvet printed with small pink roses and little green leaves. A light green georgette is powdered with little diamonds. A lavender blue georgette has a yellow velvet ribbon sash. For easy wear there is nothing better than black georgette trimmed with black velvet ribbon. With a coloured bead necklace or a single jewel to relieve it, a black dress is of the greatest use.

Chiffon and georgette dresses in pale colours trimmed with velvet make agreeable dance dresses. Pale yellow trimmed with velvet ribbons in a darker shade, with orange amber beads as jewels, or with topaz, will suit a brunette; for a blonde there is blue—scarab blue, peacock blue or forget-me-not blue with silver. Of lace dresses there are many—black varnished lace with a varnished ribbon belt, fine black silk lace with a tulle or moire sash, or cobweb lace, black over rose. The skirts are full and soft, falling in uneven lengths to the ankles over short, slim underskirts.