WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 24 February 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). SALE TIME IN LONDON WOMAN' AT HER VERY WORST. NEW IDEAS IN' FASHION. London, January 0. No one admires her sex more than does the writer, or is willing to glorify woman in all her charming possibilities more than I. But there is one specimen of feminity that, if I dared, I would despise; as'it is, lam whole-heartedly afraid of her and all her wicked works. That is the Sale woman—a special creature, or. mayhap (1 say it to my shame), a special attribute in some of us that stalks out and dominates everything just as soon as the magic/ words "bargain and "sale" are whispered. She is ugly, is the Sale woman, on the war-path, because, while absolutely determined to get what she has set out for, she realises that there is a possibility of other buyers just as keen entering into competition with her, and her expression consequently has nothing beauteous about it; she is bad-tempered because she well realises the tussle and turmoil she will have to face when she's one of several hundred bargain-hunters; she is excitable and unjust, and, therefore, for the time, altogether unlovable and unapproachable. It's no use being half-hearted in one's condemnation. The gale woman, as we meet her two or three times a year, and year in and year out, grabbing, snatching, pushing and pulling, giving vent to spiteful remarks for which as a child in a nursery she would be smacked, is not in the very least a graceful or fascinating production. However, it's not the least use moralising about her v Four red letters now are pasted on almost every draper's shop in London, and new ideas ace rather difficult to pick out. A feW, however, have appeared. A plebiscite was taken a few days ago in France on fashions for women, and it was found that considerably more than half the celebrities questioned gave their emphatic opinion that for grace and beauty nothing can approach the Empire style. This is not the least to he wondered at, though it is a pleasant surprise to find that the hideous and unbecoming styles that have been }n vogue for the last year or so have not corrupted the ideas of the beautiful. Here is a description of a simple and very becoming

NEW EMPIRE GOWN that may suit some readers. It is of ivory satin, and has a high waist-line. From under the arm to the hem of the skirt the satin draperies are cut open to show a long narrow panel of gold-and-white brocade, gorgeous in effect, and bordered on cither side with broad black satin ribbon. A fichu which drapes the top of the bodice has this arrangement reversed, the centre part being composed of black satin ribbon bordered above and below with white-and-gold brocade. The fichu is finished in front with a quaint little bow of pale blue satin ribbon, while the sleeves, which are carried out in white chiffon, are also tied with the same flat bows of blue ribbon. Two old ideas being revived I noted this week in my ramble round the shpps. One was a umart blouse of taffeta made Garibaldi fashion, with a small basque to be worn oyer the skirt; the other is an apparently general desire to bring

WIDER SLEEVES BACK INTO FAVOR. With regard to the latter, we can hardly expect, perhaps, that narrow sleeves will remain in date much longer after their long popularity, but those of us whosepurses are not long will sigh when we have to order once more the enormous lengths of material so easily swallowed up in leg-of-mutton elaborations. Garibaldi blouses, like so many other styles, are pre-eminently for the slim wearer, and should, if elegance be considered, be strictly tabooed by any but that fortunate person. BEADED HOSE. The very latest things to fall under the passion of beads are stockings. Beads, in some cases, are attached to lace stockings, and, in others, are put on to plain silk ones. Two or three different kinds beads, both large and small, are used in carrying out a design, steel, silver and gold ones being combined with tiny ones of colored wood. Jet and steel are also used. Black silk stockings of a fine quality are embroidered with imitation pearls, the little beads being put on in straight lines, five or seven rows up and down the instep. To render these still more effective, small brilliants are added to the embroidery.

THE NEW PANEL TRAIN is becoming very popular. It consists of a long flat panel of material, which may either match the dress or differ from it, arranged somewhat on the plan of a court train. That is to say, the train is made as a separate piece, but it starts from the waist instead of the shoulders. It is often made of some brocaded material to match the trimming employed on the bodice of a gown.

THE HOBBLE'S SUCCESSOR. Whether we will or whether we won't, the harem skirt, prophesied as the next mode to come into favor, is being taken exceedingly seriously by dressmakers, and no less than four articles, discussing its pros and cons, have been published irt the newspapers lately. Even a sketch, iu which little move than the foot of the garment (or should we say the feet?) is visible is calculated to make one's whole body tingle with blushes. It is not that the new style would he indecent—after the toddle skirt it would be propriety personified, perhaps—but there is something almost revolting in the notion of cultured women in trousers. Still, It's no use being puritanical; if the great tyrant Fashion says our sisters, her disciples, are to wear trousers, into trousers they will assuredly go, and the only thing is to make the best of the state' of things to be. It is proposed that a long tunic, pointed back and front, and made, probably of satin, should be worn over the undergarments, which last could be of silk cashmere of a harmonising or contrasting shade. It is said that patterned materials and those of bright colors will ha first favorites when the new fashions appear. At the festivities attendant on the Coronation lace will be much in evidence, dressmakers tell us. .'