EVERY WOMAN WORE BLACK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 332, 18 April 1928, Page 5

EVERY WOMAN WORE BLACK

By

JOAN ROSSITER

It has always been understood that black Is becoming. Nevertheless, I was surprised to And, the other afternoon, at a fashionable function in Mayfair, that, with few exceptions, every woman wore black. Coats of black cloth, or fur, seemed to be the Invariable rule, and nearly all the hats were black, too. At the beginning of the season blue promised to be favoured iu the warmer materials, hut now blue must come second, black being most popular for coats, frocks, hats, and, sometimes, for lingerie. So far as three-piece suits are concerned, very delightful combinations of fawns and browns are seen. A lovely suit, sold in a smart shop in town the other morning, had a skirt of beige flannel, broadly pleated, and a pull-over beige jersey, worked with a small brown pattern. A Defiant Note The .square neck was bound with brown silk petersham, and a band of the silk appeared at the waist and wrists of the long sleeves. A soft woollen material in beige and brown made the smartly-tailored long coat, and this whs aptly trimmed with lynx fur. An alternative jumper to go with this suit showed diagonal stripes in brown, red and cream. Hats of fur felt, or velour, in the convenient tiny shapes, are usually chosen in a paler shade of the coat colour, rather than in a contrasting hue. It seems, however, that an exception can always be made for red, which may add one deliant note to the most sombre of dress schemes.

A friend has just bought a hat made from geometrically-arranged scraps of velvet. red, and purple-reds all stitched with rows of cerise. This gay chapeau is a pretty alternative to an all-black toque, which she wears with her black coat. i Really -we are, just now, very digniI fled in our choice of colours, and there s are no confetti effects allowed even in the smartest evening clothes. , Coattees are seen in “safe” colours. . A number of useful house coats re- , cently designed in chiff velveteens t are In mole and deep amethyst, as well as tabac, and, of course, black. White, and silver, or white trimmed o with silver, are now considered chic for evening wear, and there is a wide a selection of vanity bags, of gold and 3 silver brocade, to use with such inr genue schemes. a Lingerie is not so demure. One of 3 the smart shops iu town, which forecasts very accurately the modes of e to-morrow, is displaying much coral t and green in their new silk negligees, s with marabout trimmings dyed tc >• match.