RIBBON BOWS IN HAIR

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)

RIBBON BOWS IN HAIR

CRINOLINES APPLIQUED IN VELVET Schoolgirl dresses with short, full skirts, knee-length, and sometimes with a white cotton petticoat showing, are the latest Paris fashion, states overseas correspondent. With upswept hair, on the top oT which absurd dolls’ toppers or big plate sailor hats are perched at a tilt, they give the mannequin a curiously “dressed-up-for-fun” look, as if she were aping being grown up. These schoolgirl dresses are sleeveless, and have demure turn-down collars, finished with large black ribbon bows. Ribbon bows are even seen on hair for evening. Nlen’a Cloth As a contrast, Biguet has designed crinolines so wide that they will hardly go through a doorway d? a ballroom, and these he appliques with velvet flowers or trellises with coloured ribbon. Men's evening dress shirts have been copied to make the little vests on schoolgirl dresses. The cloth of a man's evening drpss suit is used for the new dinner dress suit with long, slinky lines. Smudge pattern silk and old-fash-ioned alpaca are seen, and eotton petticoats show beneath trim tailored suits, which are only to the knees, and very full. “Lottery” Design Walking-sticks have come in again. and they are carried with tailored

suits. Coat linings show patterns on plain suits. One coat lining shows a design of lottery tickets in different colours. Mittens are worn with prim satin evening dresses for young girls. Fans are carried, veils are worn to the shoulders, and for some of the more sophisticated evening dresses, long, ribbed, woven coats make rather clumsy evening wraps.