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MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1927.
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The vogue that introduced a coat for every dress in the ensemble mode for spring and summer has added a jacket to many of the sports frocks that will make the summer an extremely smart one sartorially.
The late spring and early sum distinctly in the mode. Their soft- mer seasons usher in a particular- nets and beautiful draping quali In general, the youth-giving ly gorgeous array of evening wraps, ties make them particularly desir- novelties that exert so wide an in embroidery, in bend and pall- able. Brocaded chiffons will be appeal are found incorporated into From the warmth-giving velvets
much in evidence as rich in embroidery, in bead and pall-warm weather sets in.
the really the group of summer clothes label- In the soft led sports. As a matter of fact, lette to the lightest of chiffons, the pastel shades it is particularly sports clothes are worn for oc- mode is varied and extremely beau- alluring. Light green, turquoise casions other than active sports blue, shell pink, yellow and orchid and particularly In the summer time are among the most effective shades make their appearance at all times in this fabric. They are much except for strictly formal occasions. used with gold and silver lace in In general, the straight line is cape fashion. Huge collars with strictly adhered to in sports models, flying scarfs are often effective but it generally possesses amart de- treatments employed. Others use tours in achieving this straight no collar at all but wear large and effect. The sports ensemble is ex- ragged flowers of exceptional tremely important. Often, several charm at the shoulder. These colours and fabrics are combined, flowers often add diamond-like dew but they are always worked to- drops to add to their appeal.. gether to maintain the basic en-
semble idea.
Should the evenings remain chilly throughout June, the velvet wrap in very light colours, even the velvet wraji fined in ermine is a cmart and
comfortable choice. Many of these wraps are really capes and
worn in Spanish shawl fashion. Their graceful weave makes draping a genuine art.
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spring. Tiers, flounces and all sorts of treatments are used to en- hance the loveliness of the fabric.
Brocaded silks and chiffons are
Both one, and two-piece models prevail in chic, but almost always they possess a plaited skirt, box pleats being most often used. The
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tion as do chairs. If a mahogany four-poster is genuine, with "tall.. slender, fluted posts, and with light carving in Georgian motifs, it is likely to be 140 to 170 years old, and consequently worth a good
by a bolero movement. Necks are the foot carved, the other posts be- posters have only the two posts at addy shaped, square or round. and metric. lines are the basis of the ing square and covered with cur that sports mode with vertical, horizon-
taina. tal, diagonal, curved,
The large, heavy bedsteads, with diamond shaped or zigzagged lines shown hogany, belong to the Regency and richly carved post, usually of ma- through tucks, pipings, stitchings, Early Victorian braid and cut,
periodą. The of manufacture. The tester was larger the posts, the later the date often dispensed with on these four- posters. The posts were carved in heavy patterns; the anthemion, acanthus leaf, pineapple, laurel about 1810. The headboards were leaf, horn of plenty, and feather sometimes handsomely carved with istica from patterns are common character- drapery, flowers, and fruit, but
1800 to 1840. The plain headboards were more com pineapple did not appear until mon.
Embroidery plays a most impor- tant part on many of the new capes. Crepe de Chine and chiffon ap- So much of it is used, in fact, that pear among the favourite wraps. many of the capes are solid em- White crepe de Chine makes an broidery in pearls,
diamonds unusually lovely wrap. It is more and glittering paillettes. Silver lovely when studded with diamonds lace and gold also are much seen and bordered and furred at the blouse is either straight or broken Price. The vast majority of four- in joining parts of the wraps, - neck with ermine,
The lames, giving the effect of Fringe, too, is much used to all-over embroidery in many of the to the appeal of the chiffon brocaded patterns or the solid crepe wraps. In the scarfs shades, are much used. It is parare so much used with the capes ticularly lovely in the copper it is very smart. shades that are so much used this Ermine is perhaps the most used of the summer furs. Both in white and beige tones it adds a note of The jacket that plays so Impor- richness and beauty. Mink, squirtant a role in the sports mode may rel and mole are also seen while accompany a frock in exact fabric occasionally fox makes luxuriant and colour and may introduce both Dorothy Mackaill, who wears Jean Arthur, appearing in the many charming gowns and wraps First National film The Poor in the First National film "The Nut," has selected a smart sports Road to Romance," has selected a outfit whleh introduces tho particularly pleasing wrap of or- jacket treatment. It chid lamé richly furred and draped jacket smartly scalloped at the into smart lines.
edges and is in a lovely shade of blue, while the frock itself is of white. An artist's bow of dotted silk is worn at the neck, and also forms a colourful handkerchief in the jacket pocket.
OLD BEDSTEADS.
Delicate Beauty.of. Design.
appearance.
simple in design during the last few years of the century."
new tone and material.
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were smaller and lighter then Chippendale's, having shorter posts and less elaborate carving.
The bed of the Faudal period was merely a mattress thrown upon the floor or upon a coffer. The early Gothic bed was evolved during the fourteenth century. It stood in the centre of the room, and was hung with rich curtains to protect
The "burr walnut veneered bed- the sleeper from draughts. These stead came into fashion in Queen beds were either four-posters or Anne's day. The cabriole leg and were panelled at the back, and had claw-and-ball foot appeared, to- a top canopy, the whole being rich-gether with the broken arch cornice ly carved. In this period the tester on the headboards. The parts were was often suspended from the ceil- held together with wooden pegs, and
Hepplewhite's bedposts were de-. ing and formed in drapery. This the side pieces were pierced with licate and refined; rather short in was the forerunner of the massive holes for the ropes which served for height, and tapering towards the Elizabethan oak bedstenda. Dur springs.
top. Delicate beading, carved Georgian bedsteads after, 1740 rosettes, and drapery festoons were ing Elizabeth's reign the panelled top tester came into use, and the had slender, plain posts, cabricle apart from the reading 'always as- were usually of mahogany. They Hepplewhite's chief decorations, posts at the foot of the bed were legs, with a shell at the knee, and sociated with his name. independent and placed beyond the ball-and-claw feet. The two legs car, pineapple, and acanthus leaves Wheat- foot of the bed proper., A.
at the head, of the bed were some were his three most popular de Beda of the early seventeenth century were usually low, and times straight and plain, Chip signs. either panelled at both head and pendale designed bedsteads, but Sheraton's designs are in his foot, or with panelled heads and they were all adaptations of earlier usual simple restrained style. His stump feet, or with shaped footed posts. The fluted column with straight flutes, and spiral wreaths productions, with elaborately carv-bedposts include twisted' Autes, boards. Cane panels in 'elaborately carved frames were introduced dur-garlands of flowers and ribbons en of flowers and leaves. Many of ing the reign of Charles 1. Two was his favourite design. The taper downwards from the top of twining the posts in raised carving, them are square' In section, and popular ornaments of this period headboards were left plain, but the the posts, with lyres, acanthus were the Royal crown with cherubs en each side, and carved cherubs footboards and side pieces were leaves, and other cinssical decore- heads alone. Later in the same designed by the Adam brothers always larger than Hepplewhite's..
carved and panelled. Bedsteads tions. Sheraton's bedposts are century lacquer, bedsteads were made, but very few are now in exis- Continued at foot of next column,' themselves to accurate classifica
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