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LONDON FASHIONS
Day And Evening Blouses
The newest evening blouses are of lame or satin, of tunic or wait" length, to be worn with slim ankle-length velvet skirts. The necklines may have draped cowls which can be made high or low by jewelled clip fastenings, or there are high-gauged necklines or yoke scarves which tie in front or back in a soft loose bow. The full sleeves are gathered on the shoulders and at the wrists. Most of these blouses are finished with are Joft crossway belts: others worn over the top of the skirt with circular or straight belted basques.
Double-breasted jackets, beltea and worn over the skirt. are and finished severely tailored
with crystal or rhinestone but-. tons; heavy satin eloques and cloque lames sult this style. Tal- lored satin jackets, trimmed with bands of padded stitching on revers and cuffs, are worn over plain sheath-like evening dresses Tailored tuntes which fasten straight up the front go with skirts of velvet or dull heavy crepe; they have narrow.. lapels and collars, fitted waistlines and set-in sleeves, and many have jewelled button. or .corded and tasselled frog fastenings. Plain and plaid taffeta's and pastel moltes make blouses with large 'puff sleeves" and 'frilled necklines; the intricacy of cut is the only trimming. Chiffon blouses, which generally tuck in to the waistline, are best in pastel shades, finely pleated or' with amocking or gaug- ing on the yokes and at the top. of the bishop sleeves.
WITH TAILORED SUITS For wearing with tailored suits in town there are alouses of heavy satin or crepe de Chine, pink- belge, ivory, or ice-alue: they show e details of hardwork in faggoting. smocking, or gauging, or of thay tucks and pleats. There are also shit; blotises of plalu tal- fetas royal blue, fuchsia, and scarlet. Fine lace blouses of - tural and pale pastel colours are finished with frilled or pleated Jabota,
For the country there are taf- lored blouses with breast pockets and fitted waletbands, trimmed with stuching: they are of heavy jersey and fannel in plain col- ours, bold lumber jack" plaids, and tiny clear checks.
FASHION NOTES
Print Arouses Interest
Paris Fashions
It's smart as well as amusing these days to have an avocation as well as a vocation,, writer, a correspondent
To-day We've
found you an absolutely new hob-. by. It comes close to philately, at Just plain stamp.collecting to most of wa
This season, one of the purse- alk, pure dye fabric makers has given us a new game-a colourful new print Bterally covered, with stamps
and from all countries ayou and Bl time's.
your friends can test your philatelic
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minds figuring out just where these "stamps came from. And some of them probably came from ..... Wonderland, but we'll let you find out for yourself.
NEW SHIRTMAKER You'll notice the new version of the shirtmaker style which is going to sweep the fashion field the first of the year. This type has very full sleeves banded at the wrist, shirring at the shoul ders, a gathered back and a wide leather gaucho belt. The collar has long pointed tabs Hike the popular gaucho shirt.
Heather Mixture In Hollywood
Gladys Swarthout, film star and star of the New York Metropoli- tan Opera, takes her fondness for tweed into the film itself.
"In "GIVE US THIS NIGHT she wears a jacket of brown and white heather mixture with a adding a colour handkerchief contrast of red and green, at the neckline,
A dark brown skirt goes with the outfit, her hat is a close fit ting beret of brown felt and her gloves are of natural chamois.
Metal breads woven into chif- fon in checks, squares, and, dots" make evening handkerchiefe: Fine. linen handkerchiefs, all-over for wer design, and Paisley patterned fr bandkerchiefs, and plain hand- kerchiefs of linea lawn are others There are scarlet. belia of suede or kid about 3 wide to be worn on dark blue, brown, and dark green dresses, where they are often the only colour rellet.
"I can't understand how · some things get their names, declared the critical boarder."
The Juliet Cap
The female half of Romeo and Juliet has inspired Hollywood to use a new headwear for the even-
- Dancing at a popular Hollywood - club Sylvía Bidney, starred with 1 Herbert Marshall in "ACCENT ON YOUTH," Concealed part of her black hair under Shaterpearean cap covered: rhinestones and mosaics of su ver thre
"Just what do you mean? Tl bite." said the star boarder ***"Well, they comedian went on, "take this strawberry shortcake.he wore this
for Instance If they had called 1, frock of shimmering white satin... shortberry strawcake. I could have and, it wil soon become a Holly
wood craze!!
COLOUR AT EVENING
PARTIES
Parties this winter have been the brighter for gully coloured dresses and sparkle in the trim- mings. Dresses of satin, velvet, lame, tarotas, chiffon, and lace reflect light. Hair ornaments are in fashion, whether of feathers, ribbons, jewels, or jewel-sewn nets of gold, silver, or coloured threads.
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velvet and chenille lattice work. Flowers trail down a skirt or loop up a train. Long earrings go well with present-day evening dress, as du jewelled combs, pins, tiaras, and eac clips. 70.
Rich fura appeared at many Christmas parties, some were worn continuously on the shoul- a back- ders: others, formed ground, as ermine lined with sutin, lame, velvet, or chiffon, and silver fox and sable and mink were cast over the backs of chairs. Dance frocks are cut short to the dress of instep unless, as in a Bowered satin, ivory-white with a Chinese design of flowers, the long train can be looped up with a pair of alver tongs hanging" from a allver.cord at the waist.
This is a revival of the dress suspender of the late eighties. Some period frocks are worn, usually of tafetas, net, or chif Tom. "A Mainbocher dress is of orange arid pale yellow Lowered taffetas softly velled with a uni form coloured chiffon to match the ground work of the taffetas. Dresses of periwinkle blue, dull pink, pale green, pearl-grey, vio- let, silver and gold shot with col- our agree well with softly lighted- modern rooms."
Sandals are not as frequent as shoes cut with moderately high heels and made of materials to go with a dress, but they have low heels and are elaborately. worked about the instep. Gloves have not been general at Christ mas, but there are smali muff, of fine feathers, of lame" or mas ̈ ́terial zuliable to the dress; a fic-" wer muff goes well with riet or taffetas.
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Spring fashions will be shown at the end of January. They will include dresses and costumes in- directly influenced by Ching and Russia, While silks and woollens may be quaintly patterned, col- ours will be quiet by day with bright flashes, In the summer "there should be a riot" of "colqur
such as there is now by night.
PRINCESS LOUISE
Perhaps no member of our No- yal Family has managed to main- tain not only the look of youth, but its vitality and keen interest in life more successfuny than Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll, who is still in Scotland and not due back at Kensington Palace from Róseneath House, Dumbar-, tonshire, a few days before the wed ing
Those who have had the plea- sure lately of meeting and talk- ing with this really remarkable daughter of Queen Victoria de clare that the sill seems about 60. instead of being in her 68th year.
"She is simply a marvel of en- ergy and activity,” was the com- ment made by one of her Ken- -sington neighbour.....
Her Royal Highness has always had a way and will of he Her force of character, show
elf in 1871 in her marryouts de” Family an example quently since by the younger Ro
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