Woman's world

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 11 November 1914, Page 6

Woman's world

EFFECT OF WAR ON DRESS. ELABORATION STERNLY BANISHED DARK COLORS TO BE WORN. London, September 4. Two sights there are that incense the busy Britisher, and he and she can be counted by thousands—just now; the man in cricketing or football rig-out, the woman in the height of fashion. Both evidences seem hall-marks of selfishness, and, from being a despicable short-com-ing, that quality has become a vice in the light of to-day's happenings. ■Having had the moral value of supporting the emporiums that show "business as usual" on their placards brought home to them by shopkeepers, Englishwomen, who, as was natural, at first thought of denying themselves all new clothes, have reconsidered their decision, in view of the dislocation it would cause iu dressmaking and tailoring workrooms. Instead they have decided to boycott all unnecessary and extravagant elaborateness. ' . The result is that at last we are going to see sweet reasonableness actually "in fashion." DARK COLORS will predominate, it has been ordained, for the sad ami simple reason that these will not contrast too vividly with the mourning that, it is feared, will be all too general for some time to come. Navy blue is already the color most in evidence, coats and skirts by the score being fashioned of navy serge and cloth.' The pleated basque that has been so j widely popular in light dresses all tiie summer is going to distinguish autumn | styles .also, and is the only serious rival', that coats have to fear, the days of'the I cape certainly being numbered, though a good many of last season's examples are still being worn in cloth, lined with colored silk. I

EVENING DRESSES are'faring us badly as any gowns, for hardly any evening entertainments are being given. And, actually, though it is the magic month of Seplombcr, no single shop in Oxford or Regent street yesterday made' any mention of the big stock of costumes anil general accoutrements for the moors that it must have within.

STRIPED AND FIGURED VELVETS Thes" also, in dark shades, are going to be very fashionable. So far they are mainly used, generally in reds and blues, to augment the. blue serge revers and cuffs of coats and skirtsy and they make effective waistcoats, accessories still -much in fashion.

HIGH-ROLLED COLLARS extending round the back of the neck, only distinguish the majority of the new' costumes, and look very handsome in stamped or striped velvet. A few indoor blou.es show this collar .'.l-o, po'.iie of those in ninon having pleated, frilled revers down the front t'-.at, wired, form the collar at the back nf, the neck.

MILITARY SPORTS' COATS ■ :iu- a;i|'--:'ri-d of ..-eft heather cashmere, ■ee-iir.l-. with scarlet belts and facings and '.-•'ur.s buttons. .a graceful material Sine:,- ..-vtistic draping is still to be enr ,!n-ig,;i uli indonr fashions, a very giaeeful material has been evolved in -ii'.iiinscliue, poplin, an apparently deli--■:iie yei hardy medium, that will equally ! ,t,ivme tall or short wearers, and that ...lis for very little iu the matter of ■, iumiim;.

TARTAN GOWNS .*'!■■ with us once again in dark colors, •■•'■• d generally made either with a kilted •kirt or, if for the street, with an ac-•-'■'leoiijleated basque. So far these •■:n: trimmed only with their own materii! and buttons. STiMt'El) VELVETY CLOTHS u -.h'.rk hhies, greens, reus and purple.-,, look at once bright, and businesslike, .i-i v s.-.i-.i siejis of becoming very popular lor outdoor coats, indoor gowns, or ■-a-:ts and skirts.

RAGLAN SLEEVES ■lisiiiigni.-li nearly everything that has '■!•■ vi-,. y;•;,)., a nightdress to a water-pr..-nf. SiIORX CAPE COATS Ringing loose nt the back and the front, v.T.liont a belt, and caught into rather i"'i«e sh eves, are being much sported l-.V smart elderly American ladies in EngBOOT AND SHOE SHOPS t'-ii u-. e/idently, of the fashions that would he. Ie been, for there is no occasion mow on which dainty boots with staniD- '! '-olored velvet tops or others with up-pt-rs of dyed kid could be worn. MILLINERY is mainly ~:' the good and rather sombre d scrintii-ii, and it is significant that ". lu-eys that, a month or two back, seemed horribly popular, have almost disappeared from milliners' windows. Very becoming straight-brimmed hats ire being made with loose crowns of panne velvet, the brims of accordeon-pl.-ated talletas, and the only trimming a large dark velvet rose on each side of the brim.

A PECULIAR METAL BRAID has appeared, otfeiiest in iridescent .-■revs, dark blues and blue-blacks, but sometimes in steel and gold. The onlv approach to a bizarre eil'eet is eu'ecte'd by this braid. Some brim loss toques, destined for middle-aged wearers, have bands of it in blue.biaek shades, encircling the crown and ending at one side in fantastic animals' heads,'parrots, etc. EIGHT-POINTED HATS are novelties, the points of which curve up, each with -some embellishment finishing it, generally one curled wisp of a feather. The brims of these hats are usually double, the inside four points being of cliarmeuse, the outside of nanne velvet. AN OLD RIBBON PI-VIVE]). Dull black ribbon with a line of bri«ht gold tissue drawn through the cih-os, has reappeared. ' °