Feminine Interests

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 21

Feminine Interests

SMALL DETAILS OF DRESS j those important accessories A new influence is said to bo stealing into dress from China. Chinese embroideries, colours and silks are usc-d to make evening wraps, pyjamas, dressing-gowns and scarves. Another novelty has been discovered in a new fish which, after mysterious treatment, is said to be a substitute for reptile skins. Shoes, gloves, bags and belts will be made of it. On shoes, as they are now made, two or three kinds of kid are mixed, and two colours go together. A new town shoe of fine patent leather has a jointed new sole of wood. For the evening there is a new shoe made, almost entirely of openwork trellis pattern in diamond paste. JEWELS Jewels are worn on simple, untrimmed dresses to give them relief. A long decorative chain of coloured stones with a pendant hanging to the waist goes on a white or black dress. Pearls are worn to hang down the hack, knotted at the nape of the neck Heavy bracelets and bangles are carried on the wrists, some coloured, some of diamonds only. They are of fine workmanship. Bangles of marble and of crystal are also in fashion, the Hitter having a belt and rings to match. These are put with town tailormades and simple dresses, not with evening dresses. All new jewellry shows good workmanship, and is therefore expensive. Earrings may be short or long, and they belong to ! the set of jewels as in Voctorian j days. Coral is much used on black ■ and grey dresses made of net or geor- ; gette. Emeralds, rubies, topaz, sap- J phires and other clear stones are set j in platinum or white gold. The fashion of wearing good jewellry dis- ! poses of fussy trimmings and admits of change in the colour on the dress. What is done with jewels may also be done with flowers. The single white gardenia, like the tai'ormade with which it is worn, is still popular. Many women wear a spray of four or five set in a single file on a black evening frock, low on the left shoulder. To make them more realistic, evening butonholes are given a waxen finish. Orchids may be used mixed with lilies of the

| valley, anti a pink carnation; or two blooms only, in proud isolation, form 1 tbe nosy. THE SCARF The scarf -was never more fashionable. It is worn with coats and with frocks, with country suits and with evening gowns. With coats and tweed suits for the country, the scarf is straight, rather short, and boldly patterned in rectangular blocks of bright colour. The best effect, is got by piecing together lengths of crepe de chine, not by printing the pattern on one length of crepe. Red, green and beige is a favourite colour combination, but the colouring chosen must depend on that

-of tbe suit. Wool shantung is used J for scarves with heavier tweeds. A good scarf for sports frocks can | be made by joining together crepe jde chine handkerchiefs in different colours—say an orange or flame square with squares of beige and chestnut joined on end to end. When very small handkerchiefs are used, the scarf can be made in a chequerboard pattern, tw'o ’kerchiefs wide. Evening scarves are also made from crepe or chiffon of contrasting colours, but here the material is used in long strips running from end to end of the scarf, and the strips are widened out at each end to make a flared wrap, the w'ide ends, can be used as a shoulder* drapery.