Varnished Accessories

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 23

Varnished Accessories

Hats of Tweed

One of the most interesting features of dress at the moment is a vogue for cire, and varnished accessories, writes a London correspondent. There is a number of the new hats in straw and felt showing varnished feathers stretched across crowns and varnished leaves set in as close decorations on millinery with a neat line. Lire ribbon and varnished ribbon are both used as pipings and edgings to the complicated foldings and turn-ups that are a feature of most of the small hats, and the cire piece set in as a motif is seen on many hats. It gives a useful dull gleam to the curi ous workings of the modern styles, and it also has value in accentuating and linking up some note of the costume. There are some very smart hats made from tweed which strike a different note to the town smartness of cire. These are made for the suits which are so good for country wear or for smart racing toilettes at the less dressy racing functions, where silks and satin look wrong. Light grey tweed allied with grey felt, which is used as a brim, was shown at a very exclusive house for such occasions, and another model was in brown tweed, the brim slit in front and the ends crossed over a band of dark brown ribbon. Horsehair Hats Horsehair is being made into some quaint hats for wear with fur coats; it looks like a wig, and has curled side pieces. In brown it has already had some success with women who know the value of novelty to attract attention to their kit. For summer wear it is being used as crowns to wide brimmed crinolines, and brought down over one ear as a side piece. A hat of this knd was made in lily of the valley crinoline, and shown on a very blonde mannequin. The knicker matching the skirt is a feature of all evening clothes, and the importance of the alliance is shown by the number of new models in these usually concealed garments. Frilly Things For wear with frilly chiffon dresses with frothy skirts there are knickers also frothy with frills that fit close to the knee, and with satin frocks there are more sedate matching knickers, while smoking suits are all made witli trousers or an ankle fitting leg covering that is almost a knicker. But the most important effect of ths concentration on legs is the trouser skirt for sports wear, and for the shooting season, for which already there are many models being shown. The heather tweeds are in protective colouring in purple, green and brown, and also in gamefeather colours, so as not to distract attention, and it is for

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suits made of these that the jupe culotte or divided skirt is being made. They are designed on a hip yoke so as to take all fullness" away from the danger line. Divided Skirts The divided skirt is pleated, and when not in actual movement when shootng or playing golf there is nothing to suggest it to be any different from any other sports skirt. Then the skirt when divided in this way shows only the colours of itself, and is always set in good lines. For wear with these tweed outfits there are some new sweaters in light wool knit patterned in the weaving exactly like the tweeds with which they are to be worn. The bags that are carried with these suits are in loomed leather in tweed colourings. The loomed leather bag is competing with actual tweed bags, but it is much smarter looking, and a tweed bag always looks bulky, no matter how well made. Sports jewellery continues to amuse designers, and the silver gilt craze has developed further, and there are some charming bracelets for wear with sports suits in broad bands in basket weave and in link chain designs that are finding favour.