Frills, Fads and Foibles

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 970, 13 May 1930, Page 5

Frills, Fads and Foibles

Charm ing Finishing Touches tvery woman is thinking out nice little finishing touches for her new clothes. It is not sufficient to have bought ensembles, hats, suits, frocks and coats; she must have also bags, scarves, cravats, shawls, handkerchiefs arid dozens of small but important accessories to go with them. There are lingerie collars and cuffs, tor instance. The woman who is to look fresh and dainty all the time must not have the slightest hint of carelessness about her throat and wrists, so she buys many sets in white, pale yellow and pale pink. COLLARS AND CUFFS First there are pique sets, very plain, some of them no more than simple bands to be sewn inside the recks and sleeves of the frocks. The neck-bands stand up slightly, and' those for the sleeves tie in small flat bows which bang outside the cuffs. Fine batiste, hand-worked in minute flat tucks, makes other sets; others again are of muslin trimmed with baby Valenciennes lace, and still others are of cambric, finished with hand-drawn-thread work at the edges. You must not have the slightest suspicion of starch put in these sets when they {•re washed; they must be absolutely bmp. Nearly all the collars are finished off with two tabs, like the cravats of the lawyers, and all the nicest sets are hand-made. If you buy a plain set, you can make it beautiful by

embroidering it with silk or cotton to tone with the frock on which it is to be worn. HOW TO USE A SCARF The large scarf of brightly coloured silk is not seen so much, this season. Tweed golfing suits are sometimes finished off with silk scarves, but with other tweed suits and frocks are worn scarves of the same material, about four inches wide. Such a scarf goes round the throat, or round the outside of the coat collar; it broadens out into oar-shaped ends, and there is a large buttonhole in one side so that the other end can be pulled through to bring it closely round the neck. The edge is finished with a rolled bind of the tweed. This kind of scarf is often seen with a tweed skirt and a blouse of thick avool marocain to' tone, a beret and a sac of the tweed completing the scheme. A frock with a perfectly plain bodice has its severity broken by two slanting slots, through wliich are threaded a long slim scarf of the same material. Another way of wearing a scarf on a day dress is to attach it to one shoulder, drape it loosely across the front and back, and tie it in a soft bow on the other shoulder. This idea was most successfully carried out on a frock of supple black crepe satin, the scarf being lined with the faintest shell pink crepe satin. Then there is the collar and long scarf of fine lace. The collar is round or long, according to the shape of the neck on which it is to be fitted. The long narrow scarf is tied in a short bow where the collar fastens and the long, filmy ends hang down to the waist in front. There are no cuffs with a neck finish like this, but butterfly bows of the lace are perched on the frock cuffs—a pretty idea! EVENING SHAWLS The very large embroidered shawl is having a rest now, because all frocks are made with capes to match

—some of them are mere berthes, others fall to the waist. The newest idea is to have a draped cape, just long enough to cover the shoulder biades, finished with very heavy rich silk fringe in exactly the same shade knotted directly on to the material. No self-respecting fringe would be sewn on—it is worked straight on to the frock or scarf.