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Now Is The Time To Look
Ahead Of Fashion
It always pays to book ahead in she mode, writes a correspondent. Quite a number of women fore- saw the possible plight of the plcture hat, if the weather should collapse, and have provided themselves with alternatives in the new swathed bérets. These bérets of taffeta, or plain or spot- 'ted net, according to the cont or ensemble chosen, will prove izse- ful over the holiday month. pleasing Lghtness in some cases
·la conveyed by a slit crown on one side, with a half-wreath of waxed Dowers, or a feathery mount in- serted that can not be easily dis- arranged. Another chic crown to wear with a taflof suit is one side composed of plaited trellis work in silk, or straw-cirė, allied to a plain straw and felt.
As a summer gale means disas ter to any carefully poised crea- son, the die-away air of the traditional picture shape has be come rather futile: Not that this Interferes much with the feather
or flower craze. Both are worked up for the latest version of the Watteau, the smaller mushroom- snape and the latest béret and Lurden.
Smart women abroad will fea- ture the tiara-like toque made in flowers and fanciful ́twists of straw or feather. The larger_hat shapes that inny appear again, Li 'the weather should be hot, will be the coarse shady sállór in straw, or the sombrero Spanish Íavour- ite, in yellow felt, or in one of the new straws that look like felt.
Navy blue, is having a popular run, and will go well into the autumn. Regattas are ahead, 'and navy and white, yellow, and red and white, are all promised a real success.
Alpaca, in navy
blue; is used for travel suita, and also for the beach-the latter with gay accessories Yellow and navy is a good beach mixture.
For town wear, we see more black and white than ever, and a great deal of all-black in thin fabric.
Black alpaca docs not sound exciting, yet nothing is more chic than a straight narrow pleated slim skirt of this fabric. worn with a tunic in a large black dot a white crêpe or cambric ground.. I saw a little coar of black alpaca with big white pearl buttons, worn over a simple semi- tailored frock of washing white crêpe. This costume had a swa- white thed béret of black and straw-cire with tafeta rosettes. and as an alternative for the san a large black sombrero of summer feit.
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There will be still plenty of figured and cool crépe frocks that have slim'dark coats' to wear over them when weather demands. There is no more practical fashion than the thin wool dark... coat to put over our light sum- mery frocks. It is a mode that is always useful for travel. town. country and home wear.
The newer chic this season was to wear white coats over dark dresses, but this well thought our smart mode has been somewhat spollt.by weather. White mac- kintoshes are, more generally wanted than cambric and orgán- die coats.
Cottons and gay designs will have their special holiday season. The beach-smock and wide trou- sers are cool and even becoming.
Fashions. "for outdoors at any rate, are in better style. Many people might discover cause to object to the evening décolletages and continued "bareness of backs in the grande-toilette, but the "best beach modes, including the new shorts and the skirts that look like shoris are pretty and practical
Handbags To Match Hats
Although straws are very much
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in evidence, the latest cult seems" to be felt or velvet. A ground length frock seen at a recent smart function was in pure white or- gandle with flat trellis work ma- chine-stitched through skirt, cor- sage, and bellflounced elbow slee-
It was worn with wide emerald green felt hat, trel- Ifsed through the wide brim in the same flat close-up manner, with a velvet bind round the crown to match a narrow green velvet ribbon belt, which trailed off into long ends from a bow at the back, A surprise came in a green felt bag.
lines are not observed.
Almost
all gowns of the long variety äre
necked. bigh
however, with covered backs or short pointed open, ones;
Frills and flounces have not been so, evident recently in white organdie, gowns, One of which was perfectly simple with l'an--- order-of-the-garter" ribbon in tartan taffeta This terminated in a giant bow at the side back waistline, and a wide, brimmed hat of the taffeta, was worn with t. Other wide brimmed hats are, in black gad pale pink-or- gandie. with machine-stitched. lines, short: square brims, and front bow ties of the fabric. 'A new cloche of poke bonnet per- suasion in white machine-stitch- ed organdle tles under the chin. A enolle shape in fine black crin perched over the right eye, and posed on a head Atting, was seen Pearls are being revived for with a black taffeta:sult, CA wear-in thres, strings, posed one; crushed grey velvet beret isiin. above the other at the base of a new shape, hopping over one the neck when high front neck-
Matching bags and hats are featured again and again, one being of deep pansy purple velvet to go with a wide: brimmed vel- vet hat, completing a midlength pansy floral printed crepe frock.
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PATTERNS
Bring Variety
The multiplicity of patterns prove the variety of summer vo- gues. Many of the designs are reminiscent of eighteenth-century china such as 'tiny foral pictures In colours on light and dark back · grounds. A yellow ground is covered with bluebells, butter- cups and tulips in all their brave array, then come the Victorian dalay group that always appeals and looks well in red and white or yellow and white an black or very dark green.
The feeling this season is un doubtedly for the smaller patterns in the foral range, bub in the case of checks or spots bolder styles prevall This is understandable. for with postes and trails on mus lin and silk, dress instantly as- sumes a feminine air, while checks and spots are more mo- darn and belong to the 'sleekly tailored silhouette. There xre also plenty of spotted" muslims. The old Swiss dotted spot is a great favourite in all white, black and white, and white with red. and other colours.
Spots For Evening Smartest of all for day or night is the larger spot in white on black crepe. taffeta ot organdle. Spots demand skill in the mak- ing. Checks, stripes or spots are. best when dealt with by the tai- lor for day, but for the smartest evening toilettes they should be fashioned on the early Victorian stiff styles.' such as the old silk spot in selfcolour which is re- black and colours for vived in
evening styles for
the Infanta dancing.
A full Quaker-grey silk frock looks delightful embroidered with a red spot and worn with coral ornaments. So does demure
cinnamon and white striped silk and satin. with Victorian Boup- ces, short bell sleeves, and de- corative hem-line. A swathed green sash is worn and a posy of mignonette
the tucked in square decolletage.
Field flowers are a favouite de- sign for the trepe and cottons of this season, and here the flowers are in very bright colours, Many shades in cornflowers looked well on black.
The New Yellow
A short coatee of a"yellow ris design was unusual, see" over 2. tightly buttoned corselet skirt of black falle. A jabot of"lace and yellow lisse, with gold buttena was worked
black in, and fanciful suede gauntletted gloves were word. This was completed by a "sombrero" of yellow felt.
Yellow,.not always a becoming shade, is peculiarly smart. Yellow, certainly prevalls, both in straw and felt in the very new hats. At Ascot long back tafeta and faille coats were stitched with yellow, and navy blue three-pieces had touches of this colour. Yellow
is a smart choice at the moment.
The difficulty of assembling col-" our and design drives fashionable women back into the safety of all- black or navy, with possibly white or the newer yellow for reler..
With floral or spotted fabrics, the, shoes, gloves, pochette, and. hat should be of the simplest styles. Trimmed and colourful details are pleasing when used discreetly to brighten more, som- bre modes. Despite pattern and colour revivals, we must be firm with ourselves, especially in sale" time, for plainer fabrics will be the autumn choice. A round of gay visits or a holiday on the Continent, will help greatly in-the using-up of Aacof creations, and the season's dinner gowns. Bpot- ted chiffons, floral charm, and large hata are not for country and seaside. We may be very gáy on certain beaches and colourful in Jumpers and beach suits, but tweeds, Enen-tweed, and wool mixtures for moors and rivers will' be required.
SATIN AND SILVER TUDOR GOWN :
A beautiful...Tüdor. gown of white satin and silver. "brocade and an old family lace vell fs8- hioned to form a train, were worn by Miss Elisabeth Mary, (Elspeth) Dunlop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunlop,, 32 Falkland Mansions, Glasgow, d her marriage in Belmont Church, Hillhead, Glasgow, to Mr. Edward Graham Taylor, BA (Ozon), son of the late Dr. E. Graham Taylor ·
and Mrs.' Cameron."""
The birdegroom was captain of the Oxford Rugby team in 1927, 5 and Scottish internationglist in 1927-28.
ADAPTABLE FASHIONS FOR DAY, AND EVENING
Ascot Frocks As Dinner
Gowns
The desire this season is to choose costumes that admit of change. This applies particularly to the tunic. A black sath tu- nic looks amart worn over a pleated white skirt,/or a white figured fabric black slip."...
Pleasing, too, are the semi-tal-
lored modek, such as white silk- pique cut is a seamed-tunic, and worn over a dark dullfaced navy satin with white felt has and navy-and-white "accessories. this alliance has a sporting air, that makes it suitable for festive days as Cowes.tage
Another nautical style is a tu- nie of navy Bannel over a yellow crepe pleated skirt, the coat here being faced with yellow cloth. One of the new swathed berets in the two colours of soft straw would look well with this. The other accessories should be of dark navy, excepting yellow cha-. mols gloves.
The length of the tunic is vary able: some come over the knee, others leave off well above. It. but the question of lengths should be decided by the individual,
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To Suit Figure Long-waisted women who are not tall should choose coats or tunics of half-length; and "often the shorter coat with small basque will be found becoming.
The basque, either plain or flut- ed, has been attractively revived. It is very pretty in floral and spotted crepes worn over dark enition or silk skirts with a cape- let or scarf to connect the two.
Possibly the black-and-white alliance is most effective of all. Red, and a curious tomain shade, is gaining prominence. A smart little basqued coatee of white pique spotted red. had two stiff Frills, one of red and one of white in plain pique, pleated. They dipped at the back. and were "shaped in the basqued cost of the 1860 way. the neck finishing in similar fashion. This looked well over a white skirt, but could also be worn over black; "supposing a touch of the black 'was introduc-: ed at neck and waist.
This season is a happy one for the girl possessed of the dress- sense, for fashion commends all garments that can be used for different, purposes and can come into autumnal schemes, such as these tunics and the basque coats. Many of our most artistic and practical dress designers have taken the greatest trouble with the modern garden party, or -Ascot sort of clothes, to 'see that they are adaptable afterwards as dinner dresses.
Fortunately there are many practical experts at the back of Cashion. The commonsense note, comes into all departments of good dressing, and extends to the big stores. It is considered more chle to-day to have a Jess cum- bersome wardrobe, but to be able to ring continual change.
* - 'Twg-Purpose Gowns. .This is why Fashion returns so continually to all-black or all- white and the maple alliance. It is so easy for the smart Ascot- ty, tollette of black lace or net- cire designed for last week with the under-dress so arranged as to do duty for a dinner gown for the rest of the season. The little day capelet of the same crepe az the underdress theme becomes the decolletage, canght up by a jewel- "Such a gown is cut to fall round the feet, and without its outer fluffy draperies is a
ple evening frock in frock in soft black crepe or satin The same idea would apply to any all-white or black-white fabrics. Gloves often form the sleeves for these sort of demi-creations. They are easter than the sleeve. that slips on and off. The new long three-quarter length of sleeve, with its drapery falling away. well above the wrist, can look well for day or night. In fact, there are all kinds of ways and means, by which one really good model can be made to suggest a different proposition for many occasions.
I have often referred to the helpful accessories in the way of various sets for neckwear with matching buttonhole or floral spray and waistband to carry out colour, schemes, repre
There a however, danger invol- ved in such plans when it comes
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to packing. Girls must under stand that in the newer, way of dressing and utilisation of all these clever ideas, nothing, mutt be worn in a bedraggled or untidy condition
The charm and chic of the las- est accessories and these sels of summer dafntides lès in their crisp freshness. The white organdi carnation or creamy velvet care-
must be immaculately "clean," otherwise, dye it another color! Dirty white has no connection with the shade known as off-the- white! Many girls, and, indeed, older women as well, do; some- times err rather badly in this res- pect once they depart in any way from the clear, precise way of a severely tailored garment,
The decorative gloves, fascinat- ing" collars and fabric and feat- hered flowers have been part of a charming summer scheme, biat such tries are apt to wilt, like natural flowers, in the heat, so women must be very guarded as to their future uses, when the sea- son's functions are over and we have to look ahead to the colours and fancles of an early autumn season. Sometimes courage is re quired to throw away ruthlessly ethereal trifes, suited only to summer days.
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Brilliant Nail Effects
Are brilliantly tinted nails the ast word in smartness An En- glish Society woman writes: As Tollows:-
I asked the "The other day manicurist who was adroitly at- tending to my nails what shade <of nau polish was the most popu- lar with the smartest of her | clients. (“Coral," she replied, “and by that I mean a delicsite pink, Just a shade darker than the na tural tone of the nail. I am glad..
to say that coloured enamels, such as silver, green" and black, have almost entirely fallen from popularity. Personally, I always
thought them rather vulgar, and people have found that they do not always harinonise with one's gown
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Women. I think, have generally adopted, the lacquer finish.! før their nails, but prefer the more delicate and natural colours.'
BLACK AND YELLOW
Binck with yellow promises to be one of the most fashionable colour „partnerships for the later summer. At the Paris mid-season "dress shows there has been quite an out- break, of trim lillleyblack gloth suits, shown with blouser of yellow and black spot or check mulin
The favoured headgear for these ensembles is the latestijanty of the Paris millinera yellow felt hats with moderately broad brims, trimmed with plain þláck ribbons,' ›
Many printed dress in the 'mid-sedion" collections also show the black and yellow colour "'achemie.
There is a wide choice of hand creams and lotions, and every woman should have a good sup ply. The old-fashioned glycerine. land rose water is still an effec-
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tive and cheap application. To make your own lotion, take, 40%. of rose water, 20% or glycerine, and" half a teaspoonful of bow-... dered alum (this astringent to the action of the glycerine which opens the pores). Shake well tá disscive, the alum, and use sparingly. Hand lotions and creams should be applied after the hands have been in water as they give the skin & good Anish, and if one is going out to protect the skin from the. elements. A daily massage of the hands, paying particular siten- tion to the fingers, is helpful to keep the hands shapely and pre- vents the unsightly enlargement of the knuckles. The cuticle is treated very gently and carefully now-to more scraping and cut- ting. Instead, softening "offs and creams are massaged into the bise of the nail, and then the cuticle is pressed gently back. //
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