JOTTINGS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 16 May 1925, Page 13

JOTTINGS.

AMERICAN FASHIONS

EAST Kit CHURCH- PARADE

Americans celebrated Easter Day by a great parade to the churches, and in many instances tickets have tb W obtained in oTder To secure seats in the sacred places of worship. A complete “kit ot trappings” for the parade on Easter Sunday, tile one day dt the year when plain, if not necessarily simple, Airs George Q. Nobody really thinks herself as milady, can be had on stylish Fifth Avenue,- in New York, for 610 dollars 10 cents. The extra dime is for church collection! The full marching kit starts with an ensemble, which is' the new femine equivalent of a suit. An ensemble costs 350 dollars The hat will be 40 dollars. Tho silk stockings cost 8 dollars, gloves 7 dollars shoes 25 dollars, pockeitbook 80 dollars; church collection 10 cents, and' the remaining 100 dollars- will be necessary for underwear:

“The ■ kirts, as you see, are extremely short this year;' 1 a French modisto of Fifth Avenue pointed out. “Shorter, m fact, than they were in 1921. And m the French models, you will observe, they© is a singularly becoming brevity. “Now,” she went on, “as to colours madame will find many things in beige. Beige is a colour like tan or light brown. Madame will find many things in beige or Icttucei green. And in bright reds, ’too. The slippers will be sarin, and the lingerio of something very sheer! Now, it will take some estimating to ascertain the cost of an entire wardrobe for milady. Well, three easembles at least, and them a dozen hats, three dozen pairs of stockings ; a dozen pairs of shoes; two tailored suits. Say half a dozen tea gowns and the same number of dinner dresses; a

dozen lingerie in one or two pieces; some sports coats —say three sports coats; three evening wraps. And then, the etceteras, which won’t be much, say 10,000 dollars. It really isn’t very expensive to dress a society woman, if one buys judiciously.”

I The well-dressed American man this autumn is g ng to appear inches taller and birds and vegetables will inspire the 'colour scheme for his wardrobe. Wid’er trousers that taper to shoes, higher pockets in suits and overcoats, a sculptural effect of broad shoulders land stalwart lines will bring about a, new tall silhouette for men, while pheasant, beetroot, bracken and heathland tones, with European pheasant and American Inca designs further enlivening the fabrics, will replace the sombre colours of former years. Red will tinge most of the fabrics.

This was the word that emanated in Chicago from the showing of fall lines of display, the showing being the innovation in the men’s garment world, it was explained, because of the startling deviation in fashions that will be worn next autumn. Suspenders (braces) must he worn to hold the trousers in the required straight lines. “Cuffs” are to disappear from ‘the trousers, and but tons and pockets in the coats aro to bo placed an inch and a half to two inches higher than at nresent. Waistcoats will be shorter and overcoats will have three buttons only.