Fashion Hints for Islands Women

By Therese

APPROPRIATE dress is the open se same to the high road of adventure.

It envelopes you in an aura of self-con fidence and, with confidence, half the battle of success is won.

When summer skies are gay we answer the call for ravishing summer materials.

Laces, nets, voiles, linens, multi-celoured boldly-patterned crepes and a thousand and one delightful things flaunt their beauty in a world of sunshine.

Morning frocks wear a casually smart air and offer a tremendous choice. The practical shirt-maker frock continues to give yeoman service. Crisp materials lend themselves to chic, while seer suck ers, cool and refreshing as a sea breeze, are the direct and delightful answer to the tropical prayer. They wash like mad. need no ironing, and come in the most fascinating colours and designs—geo metrical, spot, candy stripes. They offer untold charm and gladden the heart of each and everyone of us.

Sports frocks shine with well tailored simplicity. Neat little suits wear a softly feminine air that is full of appeal and, when worn with interchangeable acces sories, completely change their character to the wearer’s intense satisfaction.

A brown linen suit gaily dons a daffo dil yellow blouse, matches its bright note with a stitched linen hat and natural chamois gloves.

White does marvellous things to sober

frocks. It gays them with a crisp beauty all its own. Collars that hug the throat, gillets, jabots, flower knots and garlands* of pique daisies are some of its delightful mediums of self expression.

A navy linen frock with white collar and cuffs covers itself with a loose white linen coat and a spotted dress of red throws over itself a short flaring coat of pique. You must, of course, have a pair of black and white shoes. They have an air that is absolutely spring-like and are so cool to look upon.

There is a challenge to gaiety in the beach clothes. Romper suits have a little girl air about them and are the last word in provocation when evolved in scarlet and white striped gingham.

Beach frocks entirely backless, with straight slim skirts split to the knee, are really delightful. Large cartwheel hats offer protection from a too ardent sun and help retain that schoolgirl com plexion.

The new wrap skirt is worn with a gay sunbathing handkerchief. Skirted shorts sport brassiere tops. Three quarter capes cover the briefness of swim suits with careless abandon, while knee length sleeveless coats leave nothing to be de sired in the scheme of things. Raffia beach sandals add a gay accompaniment.

Afternoon clothes shriek charm with their fuller and shorter skirts, delightful colour contrasts and impeccable cut.

Sleeves are varied. Short, three-quar ter length or full to the wrist, they are full of quirks and twists, grimacing in ways innumerable and fascinating.

Swagger coats still sway along the road to fashion, but swagger coats with a dif ference. A clever full back and full sleeves in a hip length coat tops a slender gown of unbroken diagonal stripes of black and white, which combination is still headlines.

Full flared hip-length capes are flatter ing in the extreme, slenderizing the hips to a surprising degree.

Taffetas afternoon frocks have untold charm. Patent leather belts and shoes go with them, and patent leather flowers in two colours add tne not© of perfection.

Pleatings and gaugings appear fre quently, which is very satisfying, since light summer materials lend themselves so well to this type of trimming. Pleat ing takes the form of a bib and tucker on an afternoon frock, and is repeated on the hem of the tunic effect. A round yoke has a gauged bodice attached and a low gauging trims the front of the skirt.

A spotted afternoon frock of brown car ries a beige cape elbow length with spotted note appearing again in the in verted pleat which goes from neck to elbow. A looped collar peers over the slightly gauged neckline.

Blouses show originality. Some have soft frilly bows, others are adorned with

fascinating flower necklines, all are com pletely charming.

Evening gowns swish rythmically to success. Their soft frou-frou whispers of swaying palms and a tropical moon. A dream of beauty is the gown of lavender chiffon, which ruffles violets at its throat and adorns its softly gathered bodice with a lovely old amethyst brooch. Its voluminous skirt, light as drift down, floats its glamorous way to amethyst satin slippers.

White starched lace for evening is very new. Worn over a pique foundation it is the essence of coolness.

The white note is repeated in the gown of lyric loveliness in lustrous satin with silver bugle beads and diamante trim ming. A cluster of flowers tucks in at its low decolletage and its accompanying cape falls gracefully to the hips.

Crinoline gowns in the “grande dame” manner in taffetas are full of old world charm and accentuate slim hips beneath.

A taffeta dress, romance in every softly whispering fold, adds billowdng ruffle on ruffle of tulle from waist to hem line.

Sashes, bustle effect, are well to the fore on slim and bouffant gown alike, and offer great scope for colour contrasts. A lipstick red evening gown, slim to the knees, flares out hour glass fashion and swathes its slimness with velvet sash of green with wide ends falling in sweep ing folds to the floor.

Flowers bring inspiration. Real ones in the hair or the decolletage and always must you wear them.

A Russian peasant blouse full of bodice and sleeve is evolved in a gorgeously pat terned crepe de chene and tops a skirt of reed-like silhouette. ♦ Sparkling jewels gleam alluringly—ear clips, bracelets and necklets tell a tale of sophistication. Little paste clusters sparkle in the hair with a charm indes cribable. Pearls are always lovely, their soft lustre shedding ethereal glory.

Hats are pert, flippant, and full of charm.

A Dresden china bonnet ties under the chin with black velvet bow.

The Bengal Lancer hat, one of the most delightful types of hats for tropical wear, is extremely becoming, evolved in any shade the wearer wills.

Pink hats are worn with dark frocks with tremendous success; coal scuttles, pancakes and cartwheels, fascinating and different, all take their place in fashion’s mad whirl.

Mr. Alan Gerbault, in the tiny vessel which bears his name, returned to Pa peete, Tahiti, in July, after an absence of several months in the Marquesas, Gam biers, and other outlying groups of French Oceania. He remained in port until the July 14 celebrations were concluded.

Mr. Morgan Adams, a prominent Los Angeles business man and commodore of the Los Angeles Yacht Club, recently paid a visit to Tahiti in his schooner yacht “Radio,” with a party of friends aboard. After cruising among the islands of French Oceania for some weeks, the Radio left for Honolulu early in July Mr. Adams proposes to return to Tahiti in the near future.

Mr. A. S. Young, Islands traveller for Messrs. Sargood Gardiner Ltd., left Syd ney for Papua and New Guinea on one of his periodical visits to those territories by the Macdhui on July 25. He will join the Van Rees on August 27 at Rabaul, and, after calling at Vila and Noumea, will return to Sydney early in September.