WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 113, 2 November 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by ''Eileen.") j DAME FASHION WAKES UP LONC COATS RET-URX TO FAVOR, j I London, September 15. 1 Fashion has taken a short step forward this week, .hilt in a direction that .some of us won't at all approve of. The erratic Dame's worst offence is that

after agitating unsuccessfully for over ] a year for short coats, and then, in the j spring, getting them, she has declared < that they no longer please her, and that \ we've to go back to long ones That's all very well—l think the majority of people agree that long coats were ever greater favorites than short ones—but what of the poor economical ones who have now invested in costumes with short coats? Long ones can be cut short, but. alas! short ones mads long are not often a success. Some of the | latest models are trimmed with braided velvet, and the skirts have side V panels at the foot of the same rather clumsy trimming. There is a more decided tone | about everything this week as compared

with la.st. and some of the costumes, mainly in navy serves, are lavishly decorated with wide black mercerised braid.! Others have velvet collars in bright col-j ors and braiding as well, and T have mentioned before that enamel buttons in vivid colors are much seen. Some very graceful black and cream lace overdresses for evening wear are appearing again. I FURS. With the break up of the long spell oi cloudless weather this weeks furs have instantly appeared, and many people will lie delighted to. learn that, after its long and jinjust banishment, there are many indications that white fur—that most becoming of. perhaps, any adjunct to the average woman's toilet —is to be reinstated in feminine favor again this season. One beautiful evening coat that [ was shown this week was of pearl grey velvet with a broad thick collar of Canadian fox.

MILLTXERY. | White winter hats, too, arc showing i in felt, velvet, anil that rather heavylooking grebe. "Xotliing in the whole . place one could possibly wear," was the j verdict T heard passed .bv a sensiblelooking woman talking to her husband this week, as both stood looking in the window of a well-known West End milliner, whose most delectable autumn dainties were set out to dazzle the public. Tyrolean beavers in many colors abounded, each guiltless of any more elaborate trimming than one small rosette or infinitesimal wing—the hats themselves were dented in at one side of the crown as if by accident. The sugarloaf brimless hot that was so much worn in straw during the season is now being reproduced in felt, and there were models of that. The larger shapes were trimmed either with high stiff bows of wide striped ribbon edged with some bright color, or with an extraordinary new feather trimming laid on to canvas, as are the feathers on a Maori mat. Used as the Maoris use them, the feathers look their best, but employed as English milliners are using them, an expensive hat looks first cousin to a rather thread-bare feather duster. HOBBLE XfOHTOOWXS.

These (the latest things in the lingerie j i world!) are made Empire fashion, with h low necks and short, looses Jeeves, and ■ | there is a straight band at the knee, < from which falls a deep kilted frill. 3 MI/SI.IX COLLARS AXI) CUFFS. I The home needlewoman will be delight- ' ed to hear that there is every indication 1 that embroidered muslin collars and cuffs ' in white. 'Paris or colors will again be 1 very popular. On a dark coat and skirt 1 thev have a delightfully fresh and light effect. WOOL TRTMMIXGS. Wool trimmings seem, in theory, anything but graceful adjuncts to a costume, yet it looks as if ■ they are to become fashionable in the winter. "Tinselitis" i is a disea>e of the past, but wool trimming is verv like it. The large revers and upturned cull's, as well as the high waistbands with long ends worn on some of the most fashionable tailormades, are now made of knitted wool in all sorts of bright colors. A navy blue silk serge has wide revers of crimson knitted wool, and a deep violet surah coat and skirt has lapels, cuffs and sash of while wool. Some of these knitted bands have flowers of wool worked on them also. XOVEL FICHU DRAPIXfi. An exceedingly pretty way of draping a lace fichu that inav contain a suggestion to readers was illustrated last week. The skirt of the dress was of grey and cherry shot taffetas, made perfectly plain, except for a double row of small, flat ruchings at the hem. A very wide sash of cherry-colored satin was draped over the left shoulder, across the front of the coinage, and round the waist, finishing at the left side with two long! sash ends. Over this came a lovely fichu of Limerick lace with differently draped side. On the high shoulder the lace was drawn low down over the bust and covering the arms as far as thel elbow, but on the left side the satin covered the top of the shoulder and the lace was draped below and crossed in front above the folds of the lace on the other side. There were no sleeves to this dress, p.nd the beautiful arms of the wearer looked still more beautiful through the transparent lace. POCKETS. I'oi-ket.s. and these no delusions, but real, capacious pockets, capable of holdinn niniiv sensible things a woman would

like to carry, are seen on the newest wrap-, and coals. FLOUNCES. It i- not snrpri-injr Hint, accompanying I lie revival of the (ichu, should com? flounces for dresses of thiii materials. In Sir <;eorfje Alexander's now piny, "The Ogre.'' one of the characters wears a dress of soft, shiny si-Ik, with a full lampshade frill round the foot that is very pretty, and I have seen this week a dress with two deep llounees of lnoe from ■ the left hip round the front of the skirt and extendin" to the hem. TO DYE A HAT.

A homely hint just recommended to 111 e may lie of use to some readers who want to dye a hat and hesitate about attempting it themselves: Kill. a basin with water that will cover the crown of ■tin' hat and hold the shape without crushing it anywhere. Throw in a knob of dye that you can depend on and im-

mer-e the hat till it i.s the shade yon want. Then take out and lay Hat till it is dry. This method lias the great advantage of dyeing the hat so completely that, a shower of rain will do it no harm whatever. NOTES •'Carmen Svlva" lias just drawn up .1 decalogue of "Advices to Brides." Beside- the usual "Feed and praise the brute." her Majesty strikes a new departure in her tenth command: ''Above all. -how respect to your mother-in-law. lienieniber that, vour husband loved her before lie loved you." The beginning of a new Berlin theatre season is marked by the issue of a polioe order to theatre ' managers requiring

them to forbid the wearing of "headI coverings" iln the boxes of their theatres, i I It has hitherto been regarded as permis- \ r siblc at Berlin for ladies to wear hats i in the boxes, though not in other parts of the house. Failure to comply with the police order will be punished in every case with a fine of .15. The Police President, Herr volt Jagoxv, who, after a 5 more or less successful campaign against | long hatpins, now turns his attention to I huts, refers in his order to their inconSvenient size according to present fashions, and justifies his intervention by as--1 suming that resentment at the blocking 1 of a view of the stage is likely to pro- , voke disturbances of public order.

I The Pope's sisters, who nursed him in Ibis recent illness, live in an unpretentious flat in Rome. They once told a visitor, who asked them how they addressed their brother, that when other people were present they used the formal term "your Holiness," but when they ' were .alone with him they called him (liuseppe .Sarto, which is the Italian for Joseph Taylor, and the endearing names used by his sisters are the humble Joe and Joey. Sisters of a Pope are usually created countesses. Pius X. thought it unsuitable to confer this rank .on their sisters, and they themselves j prefer to remain simple peasant women ! rather than to assume a rank to which (birth has not entitled them.

Queen Mary's pantry at Windsor is said to contain the most valuable collection of tableware in the world. Every reign since Queen Elizhbeth's has contributed to the collection, which is stored in two rooms. The walls are lined with cases made of plate glass and mahogany, with similar cases occupying the centre of each loom. The most imposing I thing in these two rooms is the dinner | service of solid gold used only for dinners of the highest state. There is a table of solid silver 3ft in height. A rose-water fountain of silver has a dome supported on columns around which are grouped horses and hounds. A silver gilt flagon almost a yard high is said to have been saved from the Armada. A pair of bellows mounted in silver and gold was once the property of Nell Gwyn. There is a massive pair of firedogs in solid sijver made for Charles 11., and a huge punch bowl was contributed by George IV.