COLUMN FOR WOMEN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 106, 11 January 1915, Page 7

COLUMN FOR WOMEN

NOVEL STOCKINGS,

CLASPS POE COATS. To mach the gold colored shoes there are some very lovely and daintily pale gold silk stockings. They arc embroidered over the instep, generally in a long diamond shaped pattern made of spraxs of flowers. One design has wheat done in pale gold silk mixed with gold threads, part of the wheat pointing up and the rest down, so that the design forms an elongated triangle. Another design has little star shaped flowers, gold spangles, combined with padded silk embroidered. This is also a diamond shaped design. Another has little round roselike embroidered flowers with elongated stems. The centres of the flowers are overlapping spangles On one pair of stockings is embroidered a little squirrel, on another a bird. A spangled stocking is dotted at even distances about an inch apart, with four little gold spangles placed to look like a tiny flower and having a little Trench knot in the middle. Odd clasps and buckles for elaborate coats are to be found, in the shops. These are to clasp the wrap in front of the neck or body depth, for other fastenings are not much used on the modish afternoon or evening garments. They generally follow' some sty It. There are Russian clasps made of green or blue translucent composition, wdtli odd little barbaric touches of gold. East Indian clasps are made of silken strands and large beads, wdth pendant tassels and touches of tinsel, and French buckle slides are of overwound dainty silk dotted with little floxverettes. These clasps are also suited to fasten the hip belt of a dress or coat, and almost any colour of cloth or fur can be matched. The neck ruche this season is in the form of a standing ruche, sometimes double, sometimes single edged. A very up to date one is of two double edged ruffles of box pleated velvet, one narrower and placed through the centre of the other. Sometimes a slender band of fur is placed through the centre of this. Other double ruches of velvet have a very fulled boalike piece of malines, w'hich has been accordion pleated, placed in the centre. For a very short necked woman this maline boa is used alone. All of these bows may have one of the tiny flow'er or fruit clusters in soft dull tones that are found placed in some odd spot for a corsage bouquet. In the boa it is placed at one side of where it ties with broad and rather short string#. The narrow' fluted and pleated white organdie and batiste and lace neck ruffles that are placed upside dowm —that is to say, wdth the ruffle edge uppermost —are used instead of high collars. They can be bought' txvo on one band, and it takes three-eighths of a yard to go around the nock. They are finish© 1 about the base wdth a narrow velvet ribbon, and a little cluster of multi-col-oured flowers covers the closing. Sometimes the velvet ribbon goes around the neck to the back, then is brought forward again to cross in front with five inch ends. To go with the pleated ruches of velvet there are small old fashioned round muffs made of velvet and half covered by two narrow ruehings e of velvet. Sometimes a small round toque is outlined with a narrow velvet pleating,and this makes one of the sets most seen in the smart shops. There is a dull tinsel flower on each piece placed coquettishly at one side, half hidden so it will not be too spotty against the velvet. This particular sot is especially good in a rich purple.