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FASHIONS AND FANCIES
New Dyed Furs.
Hats That Paris Approves.
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Moleskin Is Particularly Attractive
When Tinted in the Season's
Choice of Colours:
Brims and Crowns Find New Lines to Distinguish Them
for this In ordering the fur wrap seuson, it is necessary to specify the colour desired in one's favourite fur. The natural tones are, of course, seen and are very beautiful and frequently finttering. But the vogue for using dyed peita has tak en hold of the mode ini furs to such an extent that it is sometimes Hats, in the winter season, havo necessary to give a second glance
in the Winter Season.
to be assured of the kind of fur'a decided flair towards the unusual used:
and unexpected. Just as one would suppose that the very bigh crown had become triumphant over all it surveyed, the low, draped tam with unexpected silhouette appears and the very large hat comes to maka Its wide brim mark an important point in the mode formerly featur- ing cruall or brimless hats.
Moleskin is particularly effective when dyed. Its soft surface lends itself beautifully to all the shades of winter. Autumnal tones predom inate in afternoon taps, but in the evening the choice is more, varled Eurple, red, green, orange, black and other shades are found most effective in these soft pelts,
Combinations. and blendings of tones, are used with equal satisfac. tion. One shade harmonizes with great beauty in the becoming soft- ness and appeal of the moleskin pelt.
"Matching the frock" that forms a smart ensemble is, now possible in every colouri Fur coats and wraps may be had in hitherto unfound tints and harmonize perfectly with the frock and hat.
Alva White, who is seen in sev eral charming, fur wraps and coats in her Firat National motion plc- ture, "The Runaway Enchantress," has selected an interesting mole- skin wrap for formal afternoon oc- casions or for the evening, which features the novel shades of red and green.
And it is indeed a sea son featuring novelties when the once demure mole can be seen in vivid tones, beautiful in the soften. ing Influences of the silky pelts..
WOMEN OF SPAIN.
The money an English or French woman would spend on her dress or her house in Spain goes towards her car (says S.V. in the "Man ehester Guardian." The average. Spanish woman takes comparatively 'little interest in clothes. She dresses. for the most part in black and wears a lace scarf in "place of a hat when she is not wearing a proper mantilla, and wonderful om broidered shawls that have been in the family for generations do away with the necessity for elaborate evening dresses Her car she re- gards as the most important part of her toilette, not a mere, means of transport. It is only natural, there:
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To be sure, the high, peaked crown is still smartly with us, as
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should be carefully preserved so as fore, that Its elegant paintwork to appear at its best when, about five o'clock, she drives slowly round and round the streets for an hour or two.
is the African turban: or cross be tween a beret and high turban-buti It must share its popularity with hats of all sorts of odd treatmentar of brim and crown,
The felt hat still possessee many of the typically amart features of the autumn hat. It frequently pos.... sesses the very high crown, soften- ed by a crense or two or three, the
narrow brim of which is turned both up and down, and the extreme sim plicity of trimming.".
Velours are still at the height of their popularity and share "with felta a much needed place in tailor-
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a urw, bronn-word- puzzle.)
SHORTER SKIFTS:
Women of London and Paris are. displaying greater individuality In dress.
Skirts are shorter than ever, and full on the hips: Square necks in- stead of round are fashionable.
Vivid shades are popular, crim
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ed hats. There are all sorts of new son in particular, The burnt felts and velours to intrigue the chicken shade of stockings has gone "ever susceptible feminine eye. They
Ivary from the flat, dull felts to the out of fashion. Hats have broad
glossy affairs and the velours are britas." either deep in pile or cut short for a very different effact..
In the tailored mode brims vary greatly. They may, droop becom- ingly over the face in very tiny ef- fects, or may be ruffled in piecrust outline or show tiny" tucka "tó achieve an uneven edge.
One must know the Spanish wo- man to realise quite how much this drive means. It is difficult for for-
The draped hat has indeed come eignere to realise how secluded a
Into its own and appears in all sorts life she leads. She rarely appears
of shapes. The hat of South Afri-- in public, and when she does go to
bullfight or the opera, or perhaps can influence still shows its mark. if she be very modern, to the golf or apon the mode. Draped hats have a tennis club she le always carefully distinct tendency to run backwards guarded by her menfolk. If her in amartness. The beret-turban hat, husband has foreign friends, he too, la much acen in both velveta entertains them at a restaurant, and combinations. The hat which and net at his home. She could not drapen backward and terminates in walk through the streets, even, at a tam effect is now and very smart. ten o'clock in the morning, without The dinner hat of lames, brocad.. causing remark, so she stops a graped and frequently in turban at ed, fabrics and velveta le always home.
style or shows a Russian influence in its very high, up-turned brim and looka like a brilliant crown..
While velvet and silks, are-used in torical hats, volvet, falt and velour in daytime mode, there is a new hat made of calf-skin: that is very smart for sports and fits well in the draped turban effects.
It follows that the life of the average better-class Spanish woman is extremely restricted, and the afternoon, drive is her one expodi-, tion into the world outside. As a rule, men's and women's lives are You never quite separate in Spain. see any family parties out on a day's excursion, and women hardly ever accompany the men to the Anne Q Nilsson, who wears par- cafes and restaurants where they ticularly fetching hats and gowns spend their evenings. Both sexes in her latest First National film, seem to think that putting on their "Easy Pickings," has selected a hat best clothes and driving slowly of the very simple type for travel- round the town it a shimmeringling. It is a felt, turned down and motor car is the ideal way of spend expressing its smartness in a high, Ing a Saturday or Sunday afternoon creased crown..
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