SNAKESKIN SUNSHADES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 20

SNAKESKIN SUNSHADES

THE NEWEST THING FOR SMART ENSEMBLE

After a triumphant “reptile” season. Dame Fashion tucked away her snakeskin shoes and her lizard skin bags with a sigh. They were so smart, so “useful for every occasion.” But all through the past few months she has cast reluctant little glances back at her forsaken favourites, and now at last she has succumbed to temptation, ant cheekily broughi back to favour the smart reptile skin accessories that fin ish so many ensembles. Reptile skin sunshades are the latest —a striking finish for many a costume —worn with shoes to match, the shoes showing a new feature in the graceful silk cords which run from the strap fastening down the instep, a softer note against the skin shoes.

DINNER-TABLE CHANGES POTTERY INSTEAD OF PLATE Every cloud has Its silver lining. When uncertain domestic help, combined with increased taxation to discourage the use o£ silver plate, it incidentally brought about in our table appointments a state of things which undeniably makes for even greater charm. To-day we may rejoice that the silver fruit epergne is supplanted by peasant pottery that gives a far better effect from the point of view of colour. A striped bowl of creamy glaze, with lines of green and black to punctuate its surface, brings into relief the rich hues of fruit and nuts in a way that silver is unable to compass. An amber glass dish holds oranges so admirably that you feel loath to disturb the arrangement by withdrawing one—possibly a doubtful benefit, but at least proof of artistic triumph! The modern housewife shudders at the thought of a silver cruet-stand and turns with pleasure to the china group that, in the form of cunningly contrived little birds, will minister to her condimentary needs. Even more charming are the sets in the form of miniature Toby jugs and those that simulate gnomes and pixies. The silver salver is no longer a favourate wedding gift. In its place is presented a tray of coloured glass, just large enough to hold half a dozen liQuer glasses. For afternoon tea, in place of a pompous silver tray, is the tray of unpolished wood treated so that it takes no stain from hot liquids. Lovely in grain and tint, it is much pleasanter than the expense of metal. Gone is the silver flower-vase; in its place is one of iridescent glass that shows the stem as well as the blossom, as indeed all flower receptacles should. We need deplore out lost silver no more. —H.M.