FASHION’S BREEZE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 8

FASHION’S BREEZE

HOW THE STRAWS BLOW. A summer holiday frock, cruisecrisp, tailored in white rayon, has a pepper-point spotted tie-silk belt, with a matching padded monogram on the pocket of a short bolero. The striped motif is picked up again with a handkerchief of the tie-silk, peeping from the pocket.

Life-sized fruit in polished leather, each ■ piece holding fifty cigarettes when the top is removed —made in London, with matching fruit cigarette lighters.

Milgrim has made the perfect frock for dinner in a country house, of soft gray-blue wool, embroidered at the neckline with bright-coloured yarns and jewels. with the skirt fullness swept to the front —a frock that defies suitcase creases.

Simply lovely is the evening frock by Hattie Carnegie of dark blue tiesilk, criss-crossed with line of pale pink. The neckline is shirred and ofT-the-shoulders, and a pink waist ribbon and pink short gloves are worn too.

To keep white gloves fresh for as long as possible, a London designer has invented transparent oiled-silk mits, which cover the entire hand and protect the gloves from steering-wheels or the morning newspaper.

A rhumba evening frock with a low waist, and a froth of multi-coloured ruffles from the knees down, has an accompanying tailored wool jacket, with long sleeves and a zipped front, made knee-length, in deep purple.

Patterned after the fashions of anciient Greece is a pink chiffon dress with a great scarf surmounted by a conical pink straw hat designed by Mainbocher.

* White lace is superbly tailored to achieve a line at once feminine and suavely dignified for a garden party ensemble. It has a shocking pink chiffon blouse.

Rose lace tied at the waist with a long filmy sash and trimmed with deep bands of dyed fox on the cuffs of the full sleeves fashions a summer garden party frock. Hats look top-heavy and arc pulled way down on lhe brow like Bruyere's navy blue straw, with a mass of white tulle twined loosely around the crown.