FASHION’S BREEZE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1940, Page 8

FASHION’S BREEZE

HOW THE STRAWS BLOW. Coats for spring are often collarless, in glorious colours such as banana yellow, prune, nui-brown, cherry, and J bright navy. There will be more polka dots than ever this spring, and a surah suit in bright navy and white polka dots has pleats at the back of both the longsleeved jacket and skirt that give a kick out at the bottom of each. The Moroccan influence is shown in Paquin’s sky blue silk helmet turban to wear with a vivid-coloured tweed suk. This year’s debutante will wear a lace rutile collar on a navy tea dance gown. Instead of snoods. Talbot sets little hats atop bonnets of patterned net. A coral pink crepe evening gown, with a gathered square bodice, is printed with white kangaroos. For this weather is a pearl-grey speckled suit, with a double-breasted jacket buttoning rather high, and a straight skirt without pleats. Agnes’s tiny cap of deep blue tulle drifts out into a veil covered with embroidered flowers. For a vivid contrast put a black crepe silk bodice over a plaid tie-silk skirt. Black and white check rayon taffeta is laced down the front short-sleeved black wool dress and ties in a huge bow in front. Mainbocher makes a necklace of unusual size of rubies, emeralds, and pale aquamarines that is almost like a bib filling in the decolletage of the dress. For.an evening bag, Balenciaga folds black satin ribbon into neat squares and lays them in overlapping rows on a prim little bag, pulled together at the top by drawstrings of the same black ribbon. . A gold bracelet by Chanel has a great cluster of coloured stones set on a green mirror.