Fripperies

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 5, 17 August 1928, Page 12

Fripperies

The Return of the Blouse. ITH the return of the coat and skirt to fashion, blouses are once more important, and the blouses which now make their reappearance all emphasise the march back to femininity. A blouse may easily be too grand for its practical, tailor-made companions. It may also be too severe. With a low neck, it leaves the coat collar unadorned, hard in line, against the face. With a high neck it is a little prudish, .or manly, and now that fashion is inclining towards a greater femininity this may be wrong. .

It is safe to say that, with a plain cloth coat and skirt the blouse may be dainty and bright-in silk, satin, georgette, with embroidery, open-work stitching, incrustations, and something dainty about the neck and wrists, a lingerie collar and cuffs, a necktie, a jabot frill, anything soft and womanly ; or, again, a plain silk blouse with high neck and neat tie may be worn smartly. The jumper shape for a blouse is the most popular. It may have a trimmed front, but the shape is that of a jumper. ; Sports Clothes. VEN such small though important accessories as bags must be in keeping with the sporting ensemble, and for a golfing outfit the tweed bags . made from the same material as the ; suit are practical and also decorative. These, of course, are only used in the way to the club and at lunch time, for during the game all "luggage" is more conveniently stowed away in a pocket. | Designed for the sportswoman this spring are useful felt pochettes with figures embroidered on the front in brightly coloured wool or insertions of felt. For golf there is the figure of a woman golfer, a study in arrested motion at the top of a swing, the figure in scarlet on a beige ground, while the tennis bag has a white-clad girl with racket under ker arm and an attractive border of coloured tennis balls. The Searf Vogue. EMINISCENT of a pirate fashion are the new hats of shiny black straw with the crowns swathed with a vivid silk searf in a plaid design, the ends falling at one side. To complete the gipsy effect a triangular scarf in the same pattern is worn, and the rest of the toilette should be severely plain. Flower-Pot Workbox. f 80 innocent, gilded flower-pot, holding the decorative posy of velvet roses and leaves, is a neat hiding place for a tiny workbox which secrets all the needle-woman’s small necessities. When the posy of crimson flowers is lifted a lining of crimson velvet, tri med with gold galon, is revealed ; nestling in its depths, is a: covered box holding scissors, "cottons, ! thimble, and needles. When on a table in the bedroom or boudoir the posy in its gold pot is merely a decorative trifle, but when the flowers are removed its utility is shown,

The @oman’s Point of View