Fashion Hints For Islands’ Women.

(By "Therese”.)

SIMPLICITY is still rampant; but in spite of depression we do not wear sackcloth and ashes. However, we do wear cottons —cottons, with no trimmings, that are sheer, lovely simplicity in themselves. All those simple innocent looking things which went with the blushes, simpers and downcast eyes of our Victorian ancestors now dance the merriest jig through life, combined with the most perfect modernistic make-up.

The greatest percentage of chic is confined in the little cape or coatee of organdie or linen which accompanies the evening or everyday frock and is well deserving of its popularity. There are many interesting versions of it. A white organdie coatee, huge of shoulder sleeves and tight of bodice, is perfec tion itself when worn over a slim fitting evening frock of flat green crepe. Another venture into the realms of smartness takes the form of an adorable little jacket of pique. It

is boxed and swagger and definitely desirable.

Monkey fur has again come into its own, and gives an air of extreme sophistication to a svelte afternoon or evening gown. It really is ideal for trimming, even for the tropics, giving as it does that lovely fringe-like effect which is alluring and so very expensive-looking.

Grey is a delightful colour for evening, from that soft misty shade to the steel grey of a lacquered satin. It does not show signs of wear nearly so quickly as you’d imagine. With leaf green shoes and sash, mist grey is particularly attractive and the en semble is completed by earrings and necklet of the same green.

At a ball, recently, easily quite the smartest frock was of silver grey satin slim to the hips, flaring well out towards the hem, and with a bodice that showed the new extended shoulders. Worn by a lass with a delicate air, the addition of an exquisite posy of the palest of pink sweet peas and violets completed a perfect picture.

The steel-grey lacquered satin, of course, needs no adornment, and on a figure slim and graceful as a young birch tree is like a sheath of armour, and makes of the wearer a modern Jeanne D’arc.

Beads are tremendously important this season and should be worn to match or contrast with every frock our wardrobe can boast. They are of in finite variety and such infinitesimal cost that it is possible to have dozens of attractive necklets with earrings to match. Slave bangles, too, come in for their share of attention and from the broad jungle to the narrower type, of chromium or composition, they add charm to the ensemble.

Smart effects are achieved with rings of metal and glass. On many of the new frocks they have replaced buttons and buckles for scarves, belt and neckline treatments. The tiny cape of a simple evening frock is given distinction by its fastening at the neck of two large rings of mother-of-pearl.

A chromium circle holds in place the fashionable swathed neckline of an afternoon frock, and so on —their uses are legion.

Sometimes dreams come true, and this can be said of the flowered de signs in both chiffon and cotton. They

make possible the delightful picture

hat we so love to wear for festive occasions.

Gloves, strangely enough, do not lose

their attractiveness on their flights to the realms of eccentricity. Figured and

spotted exaggerated gauntlets on the

glove of plain white cotton are the dernier cri, as are the complete gloves of flimsier materials —lace, nets and spotted muslins. The addition of a stiffened lace gauntlet to a short kid glove for evening adds distinction with a difference. Spotted gloves, hat and scarf in any gay colour lift the most ordinary of white frocks from mediocrity to something worth while.

A Crocheted Gauntlet.

Here is a crocheted gauntlet which is easily made, and a wonderful success.

Any colour scheme may be chosen.

The materials required are half a ball each of fawn and black stranded crochet cotton, a crochet hook (No. 15), and a pair of fawn fabric gloves.

Cut off the gloves just below the wrists and buttonhole-stitch the cut edges with black cotton.

Commence at the inside seam of the glove, in the black cotton, work a row of d.c. into the button-hole stitch, count the d.c., and make the same number in the second glove.

The rows are now worked backwards and for wards, leaving the edge open. With the fawn cotton work d.c. into every st. Then, with the black cotton work d.c. into every st.

With the fawn cotton work 4 ch. to turn, 3 of which form the first t. ; this occurs through out, miss 1 d.c., 1 t. in next d.c., 1 ch., miss 1, 1 t. in next all along the row.

Now work 3 rows of d.c., 1 row in black, 1 row in fawn, and 1 row in black. In the fawn cotton work 11 rows of pattern.

Ist row: 4 ch.. 1 t. into same st.. * 3 ch.. miss 2 d.c., 1 d.c. into next 3 ch., miss 2, 4 t. into the next d.c.. with 1 ch. between each t. : repeat from * along the row, ending with 2 tr.. with 1 ch. between each. 2nd row: 3 t. into the hole of 1 ch., * 3 ch.. 3 t. into each of 3 holes of 1 ch., repeat from * ending with 3 t. 3rd row: 4 ch.. 1 t., 1 ch., 1 t. into first st., * 3 ch.. 1 d.c. into hole of 3 ch. of last row, 3 ch., 4 t., 1 ch. between each t. into the sth t. of block of 9 t. ; repeat from * all along. 4th row: 3 t. in each of 2 holes of 1 ch., continue from * in 2nd row, but ending with 6 t. sth row; 4 t., with 1 ch. between each t. into the 2nd t.. continue like the 3rd row. 6th row: 3 t.. in each of 3 holes of 1 ch., 3 ch. ; repeat to end of row.

This ends the inc. ; work 2 more pattern rows, twice more, ending the rows with 3 ch., 1 d.c., and beginning the rows with 4 ch.

Then finish with Ist row of the pattern.

In the black cotton, beginning at the wrist, 1 t. into every st. all round with 3 t. into 1 st. at each corner.

With the fawn cotton, 1 d.c. in every st., 3 d.c. into one st. at the corners.

In the black cotton. 1 t. into every st. and 3 t. into one st. at the corners.

Press the whole of the crochet on the wrong side with a hot iron.