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Royal Embroiderers

It has been said that when the social history of the 20th century In England comes to be written. the revival of the needlework will certainly receive recognition. Not only is the revival of this old fraft being encouraged all over the country, but Londen Society has taken it very seriously Indeed. Young married couples are, to- day, undertaking pieces of needle-. work-jointly to beautify their homes, instead of leaving this business" in the hands of profes- slonal furnishers, and decorators.

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A good example has, of course. been set these young people by the Queen, who has spent much time during the long winter even- ings at Sandringham over broidery and needlework of all description. But she is no novice at the art Her latest piece of embroidery or hand is a set of four chair seats in petit point, in delicate blues, pinks, belges and greys.

The Princess Royal and Lord Harewood are both exports with their needles. They have been at work some while on a set " oľ chair seats for Harewood House,

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Feathers are Coming Back

New Fashion Art Is Bringing Prosperity to the Trade

Pinang with feathers is a new rusion art, which is bring- ing prosperity to trade. 1 AL some examples of this; in which Ostrich feather fronds werc "matched up" to given patterns in printed silk materials to make Ascot and summer huts for

rocks, writes a correspondent.

All the models (which were created by Madame D, Carlton). were British made. Many were in the new shade (which is one of this season's most perfect colourings) called "misty tur- qualse;" and in palest shell pink.

Ostrich feather fronds were shown made into tiny flat curled petals massed on the crown of a hat ke flowers. They were shown encircling the shallow crowns of large, sweeping brim- med fine straw hats.. made into quills, the fronds being worked.. horizontally.

Like Blooms

Sometimes they were worked diagonally, to look like velvet ribbon (always in delicate. shades).

They were stuck down and tied firmly, and

clusters made into

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and loops like blooms. They were rolled like soft tubing: but in

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Lovely Joan Crawford in a gown of organdle.

PRESS. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934.

London Fashion Notes

Millinery Modes

"Bonnet hats have proved a difficult mode for some features "so the problem has been solved · by the introduction of a cluster of flat softly shaded feathers covering one side of the crown of the hat, the feathers then being brought through an opening near the brim-line to soften, the off- the-brow look. The other side of the forehead is left bare. A charming example in flaminge scarlet is trimmed in this way,

Bat " with a

shaded flamingo, belge and black coque feather. Almost all hats except the bon- net shape are now worn askew and may have flowers of ribbon under the brim on the lifted side.. Peasant bonnets and tricornes are fashionable at the moment. The brims of low-crowned "hats are thrust out over the eyes and futed. There are Berets like horseshoes and knitted bonnets.

The Swathed · Collar The eighteenth-century strom collar is high and, floppy and maay of the new cape-collars suggest this influence. Collars of fur this spring are not so fashionable as the furless neck. ・・ Contrasting coloured velvet 18 good for cloth or silk, while many tallored styles show a scarf-collar of plain cloth, or two-coloured

each case the fine workmanship Materials That Matter cloths cleverly worked together.

and special treatment of the minute fronds resulted in diffe- rent effects, all "infinitely attrac- tive

of "youth,"

"It is the age Madame" Carlton said. "We are going to have more trimmed hats this season. Feathers are coming In ȧguin, and I believe in treating them in such à way that all untidiness is avoided. "Hats trimmed with ostrich feathers with the fronds stuck down and tled can be worn, with impunity in a cross-Channel steamer in a gale, as they can on Ascot's lawns in a hat wave."

the Duke and Duchess of York have now decided to make a set of chair seats for use in their owa home in Royal Lodge, Wind- sor Park. It is only recently. I think, that the Duke of York has tried his skill with embroidery. but some months ago. he told friend of the difficulty he was encountering with cross-stitch. Before Christmas, however, he had started seriously on his task. and, has evidently made enough progress to encourage a contin- Dance:

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The Large stores which cater for every sort of taste and most Qepins of purse, and the smal Gressmaking establishments where Lxvnsiveness and individuauty are some of the most important assets, are at une just now in their interest in new fabrics,"

Thanks to the inspiration Of designers and the skill of manu- facturers, "modern woollens are so wonderful that we instinctively turn to them first, in spite of last" summer and the marvellous op- portunities It gave us for wearing " silks and cottons, muslins and linens.

They are really exquisite, the new wools; finer than ever, in their capacity for being rolled up mto an incredibly small space and coming out looking as grand as before-very supple to drape very alluring about their colours. ", One range which I have just seen is very light in weight, but rather thick and velvety in ap- pearance if it were a carpet you would say that it had a deep. pile). The plain colours are for coats a lovely corai, a good navy, a grey, beige, black, and a curious. yellow green. The patterned anes, in wavy stripes blended of different colours, are for frocks to go under the coats, and the colour of the coat naturally ap-. pears prominently among the wavy stripes.

The very deliciate tweeds which are almost as fine as silk or linen are made in all the exciting tones that the thought of spring always makes one long to wear, 20

Duck's egg green (or blue, f you prefer it that way), delicious pinks, greer.s that match the youngest leaves, pale yellows. deeper blues-rather misty, like. bluebells in the shade-light grey's and beiges, and off-whites,

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There is a certain number checks again, though, naturally not.so many of these or of the." very hairy stuffs as there were last year.

There are all sorts of enchant- ing silks, too, and cottons and linens, and painted or printed chiffons, and crinkles of all types In every texture; but these must

wait for another time.

We do like surprises, don't we? If it isn't a new line to'à hất o an evening decolletage, it is a new kind of belt or buckle, or a coat that looks as if it had amus- ingly different revers, which ac- tually turn out to belong to the blouse beneath; or an old materi- at used in an unexpected way..

Furnishing braid as a hat trim- ming is one of these I have men- tioned already, and a black and gold chequered curtain material made into a hat. Frinted taffetas for the bicuse you wear with, a fresh spring sult is a third, thể print tiny and old-fasthoned.

Then there is tart" for the jacket you wear over a summer frock or turn and turn about with the coat which belongs to a suit. Instead of for the blouse worn beneath, as happened so much last spring.

We have already used wood for bags and buckles, buttons, brace- lets and rings. We even treat our houses as surprisingly as our. clothes, putting wood on the table to hold bread or salads or cheeses; spreading padded velve- teen on the floor instead of a rug: using miniature mirrors with a dip in the 'middle for. ashtrays; and hanging the stuff they make 'salls of at our windows, sometimes In company with the same kind 01. chiffon we use for a fragile evening dress.

Most jumpers, blouses and day dresses continue with a high neck-line, round or draped or tied Short sleeves,- three-quarter sleeves are fairly evenly divided among the newest blouse, jumper and day dress models.

Sleeves continue, to embellish

The sleeveless coatee or cape must be worn much more care- fully and only by the slim tall womert. The sportscape is seamed and fitted ол the shoulders, and sometimes is worn over a trim little coat. A sim effect is achieved by the fluffy tulle-capes, which in the case of evening dresses often end just above the waist. They are draped to give a bold, but soften- ed shoulder-tre which balances any width on the bips.

remaining

The Black Unlined Coat Good dressers are faithful to the black and white scheme. There is always a fresh crisp look about the black coat ́ and skirt with white..ahirt for mornings. The ensemble with all the lovely choice of new crepes and foulards in the black and white range, also makes the Ideal frock for all sorts of smarter functions, with the long slim black wool coat that is often left unlined. This coat will do great service for it adds style to the all-white summery frock, and can be worn over gay colours like marine-blue. red or green. A black unlined wool coat is a good possession in every wardrobe.

Head-Bands

This popular fashion looks as 11 it were going to die more swiftly than it came. In a recent West End fashion parade which featured evening gowns there were but half a dozen head- bands. Still the remaining ex- amples were improvements on the Arst efforts: Coral and sapphire archés contrasted with the more macabre specimens worked out in dull-gold and rubies. The most attractive be- ing one made from silver cloth laurel leaves. The bands are. useful for keeping hair tidy ôn windy evenings,

Spring Millinery

The three types of hats which will be seen this Spring are those tilted forward over the eyes, showing quite a large proportion of hair;" those tiited sideways showing even more hair; and those worn on the back of the head giving the effect of a halo.

Fashion Hints

Necklines are now finished in any way to suit the wearer. The

many of the loveliest evening dresses, and the contrast between the 'very new and exceedingly' deep front 'decolletage and the high front and low back evening The is one of the most noticeable features of 1934 fashions.

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young so is the smalt round neck. Older women have returned to the small V or else a deep one, with a collar that çan, where required, fasten right up to the throat. For evening the wide, low square decolletage is much wor. The exaggerated bare-back is no longer considered good style. Waist lines are nor mal or set lower. Hips are slim. Neat colorless tailored enats. short of longare pinched in just a little at the walst. Like colours, vary occasion. Sports skirts, and tailored tweeds may be a little sharter. but the average skirt is to the calf. Ankle-length is cor- rect for afternoon and semi- evening, while full dinner dress shows slender trains and skirt trimming low at the back.

Lengths, with the

White Organdle Coats Coats of white men with well spaced floral motifs stop short on straight hemlines of black frocks, nad

there are

coats of white organdle for later on. Organdle and figured crepes will also we in. use for evening wear.

FASHION HINTS

Visitors on the first day of the fair were presented with a do- cument which contained the fol- lowing fashionable predictions for spring and summer:-

Dresses are to be slightly shor- ter.

Divided skirts are to be worn in the afternoon,

Chromium. buckles and clasps are the most popular forms of adornment,

Large checks and spots are to. dominate coming designs.

Red, blue, biscuit and "mass green are to be favourite colours. Of a line of decidedly French gowns, made in Britain, one could be seen in the dazzling form of a model covered with 10.000 se quins, all of which had been sewn on by hand. Girls worked on a foundation of nigger-brown geor- gette, their united labours läst- Ing over a week. The result was reminiscent of Mae West,

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The smart racing women will be seen with a novelty in practical had-bags this season. The ma- terial is "calf-hallstone calf.

As its name suggests, the calf- skin has a queer irregular, sur- face. It is in a wide range of colours, mostly in quiet shades, darkest brown or navy. Black anck dull mahogany-red look wonderfully well made into large" shapes with plenty of pockets.

Finest crocodile will also a.c- company the, cosy tweeds and wool ensembles for March. These are used in turn with the Angora bags and soft scarves that carry out so admirably a two or three- coloured scheme.

HEADBANDS

The newest headbands are flat,; in contrast to the spate of up- standing tiaras, diadems," and coronets... Lovely things for the purpose can be devised with real, semi-precious, or synthetic jewels, and velvet, lamé, or more rib-

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Bracelets which match the fe- wels are good. Ear clips are new- er and neater than earings,

SHORTS AND SKIRTS

For sporta clothes afloat, one of the most pratical ideas is to have full, yet slim, shorts and a matching skirt to wear when you feel like it.

The skirt usually buttons all the way up the front. This and the short can be made of thin flannel or jersey, or gaily-pat- terned cotton.

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