WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1921, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Mr. G. Seymour, who has been spending a week here, returned to Blenheim thia morn’ng. Mra. Hugh Baily has returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs. Nancarrow (Hawera) and Mrs. Harold Abraham (Stratford) fire visiting Wellington. Miss L. R. Baker left last Monday for a holiday in the South Island. Mrs. James Stringer has returned from visiting Timaru and Cambridge. Miss R. Renaud has returned from Wellington. Miss McLean has returned to Hastings. Sister Harris (Rotorua) is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Champion. Mrs. and Miss Bro.wn (Inglewood) are staying with Mrs. McKellar. Miss G. Good (Hawera) is the guest of Mrs. F. G. Evans. Mrs. Penn left this week for a visit to Wellington. Mrs. Courtenay left this week for Havelock North to visit her daughter, Mrs. Preston Thomas. Mrs. Horner (Stratford) is staying with her mother, Mrs. Thomson. Mrs. Noel Fookes, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Stratford. • • • • Mrs. James Wilson returns to-night from a trip to Wanganui, Auckland, and Hamilton. • • • • Mrs. Sydney Allen (Auckland) is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Newton King. Mrs. Corry (Hawera) is the guest of Mrs. R. Cornwall. It is understood that a large party* of Wellington young ladies intend shortly tramping across the Tararua ranges.

Mrs. A. J. Weir, of Devonport, is visiting her mother, Mra. Captain Waller.

Mrs. J. Morton left this morning for Eltham where she will spend two or three weeks.

THE VICTORIA LEAGUE,

Yesterday afternoon the Victoria League held a musical afternoon at their rooms. Mrs. Frederic and Mrs. Dawson played pianoforte solos, and Mrs. Brodie. Mrs. Mowlem, Mrs. C. Webster and Miss Leitch contributed songs. Most beautiful flowers were for sale, the stall being in charge of Mrs. D. K. Morrison.

WEDDINGS.

FINN—FACER. The marriage took place, in St. Andrews Church, New Plymouth, on Wednesday, October 5, or Miss Ethel Finn, only daughter of Mrs. J. Finn, of Auckland, to Mr. John H. Facer, eldest son of Mr. and* Mra. J. R. Facer, of Port Chalmers. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. O. Blundell. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr. J. Finn, wore a smart costume of cream gaberdine, and pale blue georgette hat, trimmed with grey and silver lace. She carried a bouquet of white heather and azaleas and maiden hair fern. Miss Mary Facer, sister of the bridegroom, attended as bridesmaid, and wore a frock of saxe blue crepe de chine trimmed with tiny pale blue rosebuds, and a black crepe-de-chine hat relieved with blue and gold. Her bouquet was of pale pink roses and maiden-hair fern, with a touch of golden brown leaves. Mr. Haddon Smith, of New Plymouth, attended the bridegroom as best man, and carried out his duties in an efficient manner After the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith, Lemon Street. The happy'couple left by motor en route for the Southern Lakes*, the bride’s travelling dress being a light grey tailored costume with saxe blue crepe-de-chine hat. The presents were numerous, including gifts from the local post office staffs, of which the bride and bridegroom were members.

COOMBE—SOUTH.

On September 28. at St. Mary’s Church, Mr. Hugh G. S. Coombe, of Hawera, was married to Miss Leah South, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. South, of Palmerston North. The Rev. J. G. Castle, of Eltham, officiated. The bride, who was given away by Mr. J. N. .•inderson, wore a dainty gown of cream Georgette, embroidered in silver and finished with cream satin; she also wore a tulle embroidered veil and orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet. Miss M. Evans, of Hawera, who attended the bride, wore a pretty cream silk frock and black picture hat.* Mr. Colin Wishart was best man, and Mr. E. South, brother of the bride, acted as groomsman. After the ceremony a reception was held in the Aotea tea-rooms. The happy couple left by the midday train for their honeymoon trip, the bride wearing a nigger brown tailored suit and hat en suite, and ostrich down cape. They were the recipients of many costly presents. — Star.

LONDON FASHIONS FOR EARLY SUMMER.

(From a London Correspondent.) There is a delightful simplicity about early summer fashions which is most appealing. Line in most cases is good, and there is a lack of elaboration, except where embroideries are concernedThere is surprisingly little change in fa ’lion, but there is always that something different which proclaims the mode as new. Skirts are not so very much longer after all, except in the case of afternoon dresses or evening frocks, and even here some are made with comparatively short skirts. Coats and skirts and * coat-dresses are showing skirts which are still short enough to be smart, and which in many cases are fairly narrow. The exaggeratedly short skirt has certainly departed; but it is too early in the day for the opposite extreriie, a really long skirt, to gain favor.

EARIA’ SUMMER FROCK. Thg newest frocks are really extremely pretty, and surprisingly varied in design. The long waist is still very popular, 'but there are just as many dresses which, are made with the normal waist. Sashes continue to adorn almost every type of frock—in fact, the sash, or girdle, forms a very important item in the newest fashions. The short sleeve is too comfortable a fashion to be discarded during the summer months, and this summer it will certainly be as popular as ever. The three-quarter length sleeve, cut in pagoda shape, is new and very becoming to those women who cannot afford to expose the elbow. While both very short and three-quarter length sleeves are in fashion, so is also the long sleeve which fits the wrist, and is shaped over the hand. Quite a number of the smartest gowns reveal this with those women who have passed their first youth. A great many frocks are still cut with the round or oval neck; it is generallv becoming and very popular. The square neck is also worn, and many frocks which are cut with a “V” opening at the neck introduce the upstanding Medici collar. The high collar is also worn, and is especially popular for coatdresses and afternoon frocks of a somewhat severe type. THE LONG TUNIC. Many of the early summer frocks are being made with a long tunic. This is introduced in many different styles with great success. The design is one which gives length to the figure and can be adapted to suit everybody. At the Savoy, where one may be always sure of seeing the latest fashions worn by pretty women, several frocks with the long tunic were observed the other dty\ A charming little gown of taffetas, arranged with a long Magyar bodice, cut with round neck and short sleeves, showed a long tunic attached at the low waistline, with the edge prettily scalloped above the rather narrow underskirt. Lace, especially fine lace such as Chantilly, seems to be much favored by fashionable women in London, and many of the prettiest frocks are made of satin with an overdress of fine lace dyed to match. In this connection cascades at the side are very popular, and the falling points of lace are often several inches longer than the skirt of the dress. FASHIONABLE COLORS. Navy blue worn with scarlet is especially favored this season. Coat-frocks of navy gabardine are showing girdles of scarlet beads, the same color being introduced in a touch of embroidery, while the coat-dress is accompanied by a scarlet hat and a bag of the same shade. A soft shiny leather in this color is being much used for hats, and also as a means of trimming a diess. Cire braid and ribbon are also being used for trimming purposes. Striped materials are especially fashionable, and simple little frocks for tennis wear are being carried out in striped crepe de chine. The stripes, which are in several different colors, appear close together on a cream ground, producing a most attractive appearance. Cotton voiles are also being made in bold Roman stripes of many colors, and checked effects in this material are also original and smart. FASHIONS FAVORED BY SOCIETY. Colors for the coming season are sure to include their due share of fawn and grey, both very useful summer shades, especially when made up in coats and skirtsl The Queen wears both quite often with mauve, pale blue, and pale pink to add to their dressiness. Princess Alary, with her pretty rose-leaf coloring, also affects both shades, grey being her special favorite and, of course, cream.

Black, too, is again popular, especially for summer evening dresses that may need to be worn at seaside and Continental hotels, when black is particularly useful wear- Recently, at one gathering only, those who wore black, evening gowns included the Countess of Powis. the Countess of Arran, the Countess of Listowel, Priscilla Countess Annesley, and Mrs. Asquith, while the Dowager Countess of Airle had on a dress of black and gold tissue. Lady Arran had a jet bandeau on her hair, and Mrs. Asquish a bunch of shining blacK grapes hanging above the right ear. Amusing how those very effective wide jewelled bands for the hail - came to be the fashion. It is said that the dog-collars women—especially American women —used to slip round their neck whenever opportunity afforded, have been brought into.coiffure use. The craze for Russian head-dresses helped the fashion. Lady Lavery, who has bobbed her chestnut hair, has a bandeau on Russian head-dress lines, and Lady Rosamond Gallwey-Robertson, the Earl and Countess of Garrick’s eldest daughter, wears one which has a thin filet band of diamonds round the head and a broad ornament in front on a radiating “sun-day” pattern. This type of bandeau is always set low on the brow just, indeed, above the eyebrows. Brown is a color to which women about London are already being very gracious. It is excellent for race and garden-party wear, in a country where climate is never reliable. Lady DuffGordon and her daughter, Lady Tiverton, are partial to the color- The latter has been wearing a very charming hat lately to one or two brown toilettes. It is somewhat of a tam-o'-shanter outline, and has a plume of the same shade fading to putty color sewn along the back of the tarn, the tip of the plume bring left free at the .right side. Both Lady Duff-Gordon and Lady Tiverton are advocates of the sandal style of slipper, which is often seen worn on dressy occasions. Its most serious rival is the perfectly plain Court slipper —in patent, suede, bronze, and satin—beloved of the Americans. Lady Reading’s example of buttoned boots of black satin is sure to be imitated. GENERAL. Thousands of London children deserted Punch and Judy shows, nigger minstrels, and roundabouts, to greet Princess Mary when she paid a visit to the entertainment organised in the parks by the Lord Mayor’s Sunshine Fund. Mounting a seat in the Victoria Park. E., she asked the children to enjoy themselves thoroughly. She chatted with several of them, but nine-year-old Fred Cherry, who had come all the way from Limehouse, could neither see nor hear the Princess until, in a fortunate moment, he fainted. Ambulance men carried him to the middle of the throng, and after a while the Princess, with a pat on the head, asked if he was better.