WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 247, 18 April 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen").

CHANGES IN THE FASHION WORLD. > FRILLS AND FURBELOWS RETURNING, j London. March 1. (Primroses, in little yellow bunches, are being sold for the first time in the streets ' to-day—dainty sharers of honors with generous bouquets of violets, snowdrops, hyacinths and daffodils. Within the shops spring's energy is at its height. Something new, after the lassitude of the winter,- appears every day. In everything in the larger departments of dress, shot silk rules. Last week whole costumes were fashioned of it. This week there are more and more of those; dozens of shimmering underskirts (hurrah! they appear again, though of narrow proportions) and numbers of indoor gowns of soft materials have yokes, bokros, tunics, or some description of trimming fashioned of shot taffetas. , It doesn't take a sage to predict that before the season is out we shall be as frilly and as puffy as we were years ago. Even silk gowns made in a semblance of coat and skirt style are finished with narrow frills already. What an idea this would have seemed to us last year, and into what, one wonders, will it develop! BLOL'SKS, too, are all of shot silk, though some; few beautiful ones are of one soft material veiling another. Such a one 1 -aw this week that could easily be copied. The top was of pale grey fine tucked net, ornamented with pale grey and mauve French knots in silk, and the foundation was of mauve ninon. Black velvet is again being used for trimming light blouses, and some very pretty ones are { of light-colored charmeuse, with a nar- i row band of black velvet, perhaps, round the top of the neck and dowu the front, | and black buttons or French knots com-' | pleting the scheme. ; THE VOGUE FOR LiCE. The great vogue for lace and net, shown so suddenly ten days ago on coats and skirts, has spread now to blouses! Everyone should be glad of this, since there are very few women whom it does not become. The newest way of trimming a shot-silk blouse is to have a loose j yoke of very fine tucked white net. This is not jointed at the it does not extend to the shoulders, but only in two "bibs" back and front. The fact that the bottom of this is not tucked makes it into a sort of gently niched - frill. It is joined to the blouse at the neck, and has a high collar. Silk fringes appear on the revers and cuffs of many of the newest taffeta coats' and skirts. THE LATEST COLORS.

The last few days have seen a perfect avalanche of new colors descend upon lis—-some as misnamed, though as beautiful in themselves, as the delphinium, to which attention was drawn last week. Flamingo, for instance, is quite a soft shade of pink, rather of the coral type. "Sahara" is a beautiful golden brown, and bears no resemblance to those of I us who knows its interminable seas of sand to the real Sahara. "Wood vioi let" is a most delicate and lovely shade of palest amethyst. "Limpet grey", is rather a hard color, light in tone, but of such quality that it would bear no other color with it. "Cornelian green" is a light reseda, and is a very pretty delicate and spring-like color. Green, by the way, is said to be going to be one of the principal colors of the season, news which all possessors of a good complexion, whether their hair be dark, blonde or red, should welcome, since all these it becomes. MILLINERY.

Yet another fashion resurrected will ' please the home milliner—viz., that of I veiling masses of flowers in tulle. Tulle, in all manner of light colors, is evident-! ! ly g oin g to be very popular—a good | many brims are swa'thed in it both on top and underneath. Tam-o'-shanter • crowns, with no brim to speak of, are amongst the newest models in fine silky straw. Some of these have thick bunches of hyacinths, bluebells, etc., underneath. BASQUED BLOUSES. These again appear this season. One of these I saw this week (destined for wear over a navy skirt) was very effective, and was of silky navy voile embroidered in red silk and coral beads in Russian design. It had a little vest of fine cream lace, and cuffs to match. MSOELLANEOUS. Burnous wraps, for evening wear, are very graceful and rich-looking, fashioned of the new shot silks and lined with white. A handsome gown for a matron, shown in tile West End this week, had a foundation of black charmeuse, with a tunic of black net heavily embroidered with steel beads, and opening over one side of the skirt just sufficiently to show a panel of emerald dull silk. Steel embroidered net on the bodice covered a horizontal panel of emerald across the decolletage. Crystal buttons appear on many shot silk afternoon gowns, and also on coats and skirts. On the latter they are generally sewn on with bright-colored silk. Silver shoes made of cloth-of-silver harmonise better with delicate tinted evening toilettes than footgear of other description. Generally these are ornamented with paste buckles. Low black satin evening shops, with a tiny pink satin rose at the instep, are very dainty innovations. BOOTS AND SHOES, generally, show a little, but not any great change. Colored suede, velvet and cloth tops to boots arc still to he popular, and these tops have altered in that, instead of reaching to the enamelled goloshes, they now extend, on each side of the ankle, to the sole. Xo longer, therefore, however ardently she may desin; them, are these dainties for the economical woman, for the dialling of suede or velvet, holds none of the simplicity of kid. Walking shoes a.re nearly all cut quilc low at the sides, and, indeed, low at the instep. Some of the most up-to-date are of black 'patent leather, with narrow Vandykes of white kid all round the tops. Travelling slippers of very soft colored kid, lined with wool, can now be bought, for both men and women, in flat eases, into which they are made to fold neatlv. COLORED .STOCKINGS. With the first sign of spring colored stockings, in all manner of light tints, have appeared, so they are apparently to be popular, if not fashionable.'once more. Whether it is exactly de rigueur lo appear in these for street wear and with a dark costume above is rather a vexed question—there is a certain air of unconventionality about the idea that doesn't appeal to some sticklers, who contend that colored hosiery, save in mid-summer, when the wearer is in a \ light gown, should bo worn only in the [ house or on the tennis lawn' or golf course. Such a c|iiestion is always best, of course, left to individual wearers!' Ankles inclined to be at all thick shouldv .shun the attractions of even silk stockings in light colors, and the plump person of diminutive stature will do well to remember that dark shoes and stocking's will ?.t '.east not cb-aw attention to

a lack of inches. To a gown, of course, holland, tussore or grass lawn, or any rather neutral tinted material pretty colored stockings lend a touch of piquancy if the color is carefully chosen to harmonise with belt and tie.