Fashion Hints for Islands Women

By "Therese"

CONTRASTS running through Fashion’s sports, formal and beach set-ups are apt to make one dizzy with their brilliance. Two things remain clear, how ever, cottons are trumps; and colour and line are important—on them rest the success or failure of your whole ward robe.

Formal afternoon frocks are beauti fully cut on simple lines with here and there a feminine touch, and their very simplicity ensures success. Colours run the whole gamut of pastel shades both for day and evening. Navy is worn with white accessories or with that lovely corn colour that is particularly in demand this season and which not only looks but feels cool.

Frocks are mostly still zipped up with plastic lightning fasteners, though enor mous leather hooks frequently are being worn down a simple hand knit dress.

Trimmings these days are usually part of the dress. Buttons are endlessly amusing and in some instances are the high spots of simple dark clothes. De tail is decorative button may be as telling as the dress which it adorns.

Gloves, bags and hats often give lovely colour contrast. Like other details they always “make” an outfit and the scope for colour contrast is infinite.

SPORTS frocks, whether spectator or active, play an important part in Fashion’s scheme of things. If you play tennis, you have the choice of a simple white or pastel frock with a femininely tailored air, or you may choose a one piece suit of shorts, made with kick pleats and a backless bodice. For mo

ments off the court don a pique knee length jacket; the same jacket gives further service over playsuits for the beach. Plaid cottons also are charming for these.

For swimming this year, there is the choice of either two roles—the slim sophisticate or the demure Victorian. A brief swim suit of white satin lastex is eye-arresting, but* should your choice fall upon the Victorian mode, it is no less attractive.

Beach coats must of necessity find a place in your wardrobe. They are charm ing and original in design, mostly made on tailored lines. Some have light hoods attached to protect the wearer from a too ardent sun. The coats are of vary ing length, but for a good all-rounder choose one that reaches almost to the ground; and multi-coloured cottons pat terned in bold design are the happiest medium. If you favour coats of shorter length, however, what about a knee length jacket of gaily-striped cotton, lined with towelling?

For house lounging or informal even ings at home nothing is more delight ful than the house coat. You can please yourself what type it will be, but here again gaily-patterned prints are ideal, and when the skirts swirl wide these gowns are for all the world like an in formal evening frock, and indeed are sometimes worn as such, FOR that formal evening occasion when something special is called for, a chiffon gown with softly moulded bodice and graceful flowing skirt scattered with clusters of silver beads is really lovely; add a tiny bolero outlined with the beads

and the whole ensemble Is breath-taking.

Swiss organzas, light filmy fabrics, make fairy-like dance frocks that simply breathe glamour for the ingenue. Bouf fant skirts and tight fitting bodices are the lines called for by this filmy fabric.

Accessories for evening are most at tractive—at the moment, ostrich feather fans are flirted with all the aplomb of the gay nineties. Dyed in brilliant col ours, they present a glorious contrast to evening gowns, in equally gay colours.

Theatre compacts hold everything and these are available in all shapes and sizes, covered in rich fabrics or glitter ing lames.

Not only are evening accessories full of attraction but those for the beach also. Correctly chosen, they will give just the right touch to your seaside clothes. Enormous bags in fabric are lined with oiled silk on which the sea water can have no deleterious effect.

They are gay and decorative and have sections for those hundred and one things that are needed for the modern woman’s complexion.

The craze for peasant handkerchiefs seems to have given place to fish net turbans, which are charming for all oc casions—even for evening wear. Sandals for beach wear are varied in style and come in crochet fish net, canvas and em broidered linen. Soles are of cork or

rubber; while wooden heels strike a new note.

Beach hats are quaint and amusing.

Pill boxes evolved in pique perch on one side of the head. Sombreros in true Mexi can style offer protection from the sun.

Quaker bonnets vie with coolie hats for popularity, and the fish net turban takes its place among them all. Attractive and varied, they all seem to fit well into Fashion’s scheme of things and give life a new zest.

Mr. S. H. Gander, of the Seventh Day Adventist mission station at Bena Bena, Central New Guinea, arrived in Sydney on December 12 with his wife and daughter, Miss Gwen Gander, on leave.

Mr. John Archibald Harris, of Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., died on board the Mission schooner “John Williams V.” in October, when the ship was nearing Suva, Fiji. Born in Levuka, he joined B.P. and Co. as an engineer and served on the inter-islands vessels for many years. He was engineer on the “Motau” and “Mako” and recently was appointed chief engineer on the new motor ship “Moamoa”, trading in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. He left the “Moa moa” at the beginning of October to take passage to Fiji for medical treatment and was accompanied by his wife; but when the “John Williams” was within eight hours’ sailing of Suva he collapsed and died. Mr. Harris was 42 years of age.