FASHION NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 5

FASHION NEWS

LONG SKIRTS FALL IN POINTS YEAR OF JEWELS Party frocks in taffeta and georgette are being made for the jeune fill© in semi-picture fashion, with little rounded decollete and no sleeves. Old rose pink, white, blue, and very pale pink, are the colours most liked for girls. Their elder sisters and mothers are very keen on green this winter. In all shades, green is being worn—pale and emerald, yellow-green, and bluegreen—they are all in fashion. For girls, skirts are semi-long; for grown-ups they are quite long; but, falling in points, they show the ankle and above it. With a high-set, narrow belt on a fitting bodice, slender girls look still more slender, since the hips are as tightly fitted as ever. All the fullness runs from below the hips. Bolero-shaped flounces hang capewise from the point of the decollete behind. A bow may be tied in front from a slender belt.

The silhouette is young and appealing, but for all but the very slim there is only the semi-fittitng princess robe, and this has to be cut to perfection. TRIMMED WITH JEWELS. It is the year or glistening jewels. Hundreds of women have simple georgette dresses for the evening, with no trimming but these jewels. Take a white georgette frock, beautifully cut and draped, and hang on it a chain and pendant of pearls and diamonds, bracelets to match, and, for those they suit, add earrings. Put such a dress into any pale colour you like, or have it in black, and with jewels you will get the luxurious effect that is needed for dresses this year. Hairdressing is very varied. The short clipped head is not as fashionable as it was. Many women are letting their hair grow, and many of them look untidy during- the process. Only the woman who can afford the time and the money to go regularly to the coiffeur can grow long hair becomingly.