Fashion Chatter

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 20

Fashion Chatter

Stockings in Dozens SHOE DETAILS The neck of a dress and coat causes some thought to maidens and matrons once summer comes. A hard line to a coat collar is trying, yet, a tailored coat can only be softened by fur. The oue thing to do is to have something soft round the dress at the neck, and down the front, of the bodice. The plissee jabot helps; there are plenty of little lingerie collars, there are collars and cuffs iu all sorts of

coloured materials, from organdi to leather, and there is also the flower for a button-hole. Beads are not much worn. Pearls are rather overdone, but they are always worn. Ear-rings help a lot. They soften hard lines between jaw and neck. The high-necked chemisette and the tight collar-band of ribbon, which older women used to wear, and still do wear, are both such uncomfortable fashions that only martyrs to appearance can wear them. The soft scarf in some bright, or light, chiffon, tulle or georgette, may be a resource, but that, too, Is hot. There seems nothing for age to do but to suffer, if It will look Its best. Plain satin shoes, to match your dress, or your stockings, are the newest things to have for evening wear. A pair of pale beige s-ik stockings may have a pair of plain black satin shoes, and let me say that there are some black dresses, richly embroidered in sparkling beads, which look better when worn with black stockings and plain black satin shoes, adorned with sparkling buckles of the Cromwell or'der. The question of feet and legs is one that has all the time to be kept well in mind, since they Hive to be perfectly clad, if the dresses worn with them are to look right.

WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? Everyone collects something! From postage stamps to antique furniture, things of real interest will always find a ready market. But now I am dealing with those small articles that most of us like to pick up at odd times and make into a miniature “collection.” Victorian jewellery, not yet inflated in price, makes an excellent hobby on which to concentrate. I am thinking in particular of the coral that our grandmothers used to wear in the form of bracelets, earrings, chains, and necklaces. Some of it is quite charming, particularly when carved in the form of rose-buds and their leaves, or made up into ropes with fine coral tassels adorning the ends. Then there is the marcasite jewellery of the Victorians, sometimes enshrining tiny enamelled plaques 01even small Wedgwood medallions. The plaques and the medallions are often miniature copies of pictures or statues, and the workmanship, as a rule, is quite elegant, so that such pieces really come under the category of minor works of art. Yet a few shillings will rescue them from a tray in the window of some obscure second-hand shop. One woman I know collects the pretty medal holders made for Victorian bouquets. Most of these are gilt and pierced in a lacy pattern; some are set with coloured paste or with pieces of mother o’ pearl, and fitted with a chain to which is attached a ring to slip over the finger. They are very charming in design, but so far very few women have thought of collecting them. In a few years’ time, however, a representative collection might well represent an excellent investment. When making meat and tegg sandwiches the filling will go much further if the egg is scrambled. * * * Equal parts of carbonate of soda and salt will check pyorrhea and make the gums firm and healthy.