Fashion Hints for Islands Women

By Therese

‘TJIHE times are out of joint”, as Shake- J. speare would have said, and we need every bit of brightness in our lives that we can find. With marvellous psy chology, designers have chosen the right moment to present their little bits of absurdity, and there is ahead a summer full of colour and charm. All sorts of designs are splashed boldly on plain grounds in silks, cottons, linens and near silks and, as most things have marvellous washing propensities these days, more than half the worry of a sum mer wardrobe is over.

It is easy to choose clothes that will take you smartly through the summer.

The choice of materials is so wide and the variations in theme of frocks for every hour of the day so delightful, that there is no room left for dullness and mon otony.

There is a definitely feminine trend this season. Frills and flounces are part of fashion’s caprice, and are really de lightful, with the new cottons. A snow white frill, peeping from beneath the hem of a frock, or a frill of brilliant con trasting colour is all part of the “Return to Femininity” campaign. Women take on a more fragile air, and once more be come creatures of frills and laces, as in grandmama’s day, EVEN casual everyday frocks are de cidedly feminine. There are soft bows at the neck of brief dresses for summer lazing. Skirts of plain linen are fastened to tiny boleros with large buttons, and the accompanying blouses of crisp fresh gingham are tied with large bows at the neckline. White linen is worn with a red and white check

biouse, blue with blue and white, or you may let your fancy run riot and choose any colour combination your fancy dic tates, and that fits in with your ward robe plan.

Wear a white straw hat, white washing gloves (wash leather or fabric), and white or two-tone shoes and you will walk abroad assured of success.

For spectator spbrts frocks, uncrushable linens and cottons are the best all round bet. These, too, have their feminine fripperies. Crisp jabots are buttoned on the front of the blouse, or quaint little epaulettes of sheer materials and lace are added. The dernier cri for sports dresses is the spool silhouette—broad pad ded shoulders, narrow waists and skirts that flare umbrella fashion from the hips.

This is gained with excellent effect in a white pique button-through frock that is definitely Dutch in design. Capacious pockets are a welcome feature, and the slimness of the waist is emphasised by a wide belt of spotted fabric. A globe trotter bag to match is thrown over the shoulder in true sporting style, and the turban which completes the outfit matches up with bag and belt.

SEASIDE fashions are more glamorous than ever this season—a very gay season. When the modern girl goes to the sea these days she leaves her town clothes behind her. Though the shorts she dons may be a little daring, and her swim suits reminiscent of the naughty nineties, she loses none of her femininity.

Really smart women are choosing beach clothes with an eye to over-coming figure deficiencies. Big hips are hidden by wide ballooning dresses and shorts; bust

lines are helped by draped sun tops; and only the very slim wear trousers, which are usually in pastel linen or hop sack and part of well-cut suits. These slacks are very popular overseas, and are worn with loose-fitting French coats to contrast.

One of the most intriguing beach fashions this year is the “puddle suit”, a sun overall with half mast slacks attached to a sun top. These are heaven sent for those women with doubtful above the-leg lines to whom shorts are tabu.

Darling of the spectator season is the gypsy jacket in lovely colour combina tions, such as rich purple, with swathed basque in pillar box red. Worn over a skirt of pillar box red it will turn the head of every male in sight. A dashing Polynesian print of red and white, in heavy cotton hopsack, goes to the mak ing of a sleek-fitting, side-fastening, swirl-skirted success frock, with gener ously padded shoulders and wasp waist which again displays the spool silhouette.

A lightning slip of the zip, and from it there emerges an eye-catching white satin lastex swim suit, slim and wickedly brief.

THE famous fish-net fashion is the direct result of the Polynesian influ ence and it is presented in a new and exciting way in a model that has set all the smart over-seas resorts agape. A well

fitting jacket of fish-net, in some gay colour, boasts extended shoulders and wrist-length sleeves, and when removed shows, in all its charm, an impeccably tailored sunback frock, in crease-resist ant fabric of contrasting shade. A fish net turban and fish-net sandals, with block wooden heels, add just the touch required for perfection.

There are also many attractive and useful beach accessories, including enor mous bags in fabric on which the sea has no deleterious effect. They are gay and effective, and have room for those hun dred and one things that are needed for the modern woman’s complexion.

There are beach coats, charming and original in design, mostly tailored and of varying lengths. Some have hoods at tached to protect the head from a too ardent sun, or to hide straggling curls after bathing. There are also short, swagger beach-coats of towelling, and these are topped by Japanese and Mexi can straw hats or demure sunbonnets.

THE craze for peasant handkerchiefs is on the wane. They have been super seded by fish-net turbans which look really charming for any sports occasions.

The contrasts running through the whole beach and sports set up are apt to make one rather dizzy with their brilliance. Three things remain clear, however, cottons are trumps and colour and line are important. On them rests the responsibility for the success of your summer wardrobe.

News was received in Sydney by radio in mid-November of the death of Colleen Ferris, daughter of Pastor David and Mrs.

Ferris, of the S.D.A. Mission on Malaita, 8.5.1. Colleen was aged three years.

Mr. Geoffrey A. Warner, of Port Moresby, Papua, married Miss Lilian Joyce Lewis, of Colac, Vic., at St. John’s Church of England, Port Moresby, on October 21.

Mr. W. H. Robinson, of the Customs Department, Samarai, Papua, has been transferred to Port Moresby. Mr. E. H.

Dettman. of Port Moresby, has taken his place.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Hiscox and their three children have completed furlough in Aus tralia, and will return shortly to Rabaul, New Guinea, where he is headmaster of the S.D.A. Mission training school at Put Put.