Fashion Hints for Islands Women

By Therese

THE passion for wide hats, slender out lines and modern contours contin ues unabated and the Edwardian story is modernised to suit the times.

While summer persists, virginal cot tons will take the place of silks and you will go forth in the evening clad in tier upon tier of Nottingham lace.

Sweet simplicity is the keynote and is expressed charmingly in summer field flowers growing madly on a white back ground of cotton material. It makes the most delightful frock for festive hours and since cotton is the dernier cri for every occasion success is assured.

Bits and pieces are important again.

Eyes sparkle under the fancy forward tilt of a befeathered Edwardian hat. The ostrich feather boa is to match. How quaint to see its return! In true Ed wardian manner a flower is attached to a slender ribbon and worn at the throat.

All this, of course, goes with the new upward coiffure, without which one hardly dares face the light of day. The hair is piled deliciously off the brow, and off the ears, accentuating the charm ing oval of your face.

SLEEK dresses and sleeker suits are for all day time occasions: but there is a feminine air about them. Blues and pinks, violets and petuna merge and blend. Lovely real flowers are worn with them whenever possible.

White is news for day and night, since the Queen has set her approval on it.

For day, touch it with colour—blue, scarlet and even black; and for night choose the softer colours, always wear ing flowers—old fashioned prim bunches or large clulsters.

Blouses for evening are foolish, love ly fripperies made of ribbon and strips of tulle, muti-shaded and draped en chantingly. Lace, too, is used and when black lace goes over pink it becomes completely devastating. Lame is popu lar also, and the skirts with which it is worn are slender.

Day blouses, of course, are different.

They are made with tiny box pleats set in rounded yokes, or gathered fully and several varieties of collars are sported.

THE bouffant skirt for evening vies with the slender silhouette in popu larity. and if you are slim you can wear the bouffant styles with great suc cess. They may be hooped, or of such stiff material that they will stand out unaided. With the full skirts go drop shoulders and tight little bodices cut with deep or low strapped decolletages and with these frocks all the Edwardian accessories are worn as a matter of course —flowers, lace mittens, and. let it be whispered, “even shawls”. If you are slender and still a trifle scared of this style choose a figure moulding gown that makes you as slim as a column.

Lace is delightfully on the up-grade.

Lace frocks are always useful, especially when travelling, as nothing packs quite so easily and comes out so fresh and uncrushed as this lovely material, which is presented in the most exquisite de signs. Lace is right for every occasion, which is but another of the many good reasons why at least one lace frock should be included in your wardrobe.

The mixing of materials gives scope for ingenuity. There’s really nothing that can’t be put together—colour and

plain, print and plain, and so on. Plain dresses have flower printed sleeves, and printed yokes are added to plain frocks, which is a very happy state of affairs altogether.

Spots and stripes take their place in the scheme of things and even spots and stripes are blended so cleverly that the unusual is readily accepted and appre ciated. A spotted afternoon frock has a striped coat; but a wiser plan is to line your coat with the spotted material. It makes a grand effect. Spots and stripes for trimming on plain frocks are exceed ingly chic —cuffs and collars and even revers are treated in this fashion.

JACKETS are in wider variety than ever. Mid-thigh length is the new est and they are perfectly straight; and worn over pleated skirts. Hip-length cut-aways are worn over contrasting skirts and blouses. Coats, the length of a man’s lounge suit coat, have deep la pels and are fastened with one link or button. Plain jackets are worn with striped frocks and vice versa.

Hats are in all varieties, some so small they can scarcely be seen and when seen are scarcely to be believed; others are almost as wide as a cart wheel. The discriminating choice lies mid-way. Some shapes are flat as pan cakes or you may choose sailors, wide or narrow, or modern Dolly Vardens

flower trimmed: and if you run the gamut of the whole season’s offering you will find several of them unique, some

of them startling and at least a few of

them becoming.

Veils you will wear either tied be neath your chin or like a snood cover ing your coiffure and without doubt you will find they are definitely lovely for formal wear. You may even swathe your hat with veiling and leave the ends flying free and still be in Fashion’s picture. In fact you may do just ex actly what you please if you have per sonality and individuality.

THERE is a complete orgy of patterned and decorated gloves made to match or contrast with dresses. They take

pn individuality and chic and become an integral part of the general ensemble.

Discrimination is as necessary in the choice of gloves as any portion of the wardrobe and with the wide variety of fering little excuse can be made for poor choice.

Old fashioned jewellery has come into its own again, and if among the family collection there is a cameo or wide sil ver bracelet, you can consider yourself Fortune’s favourite, for ornaments are but another of the fascinating whimsies of a fascinating season. May it long continue, so that you will have time to rummage among your collection and bring your finds to the light of day