THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2533, 21 June 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

LONDON FASHION NOTES. *'■ SOME FAVORITE GEMS. Colored pearls are reported from Paris to be the smartest ornament of the moment. Tko Frcncli people have gone quite mad over them. Pink and «rey and black pearls are displayed in. all the best. jewellers’ windows, usually set in solitary splendor, with one smail r- diamond at each side, or somo slight L relief of the kind. Whore diamonds W are concerned small stones seem to be preferred to large ones—which means that the design is more important than the stone itself . Empire wreaths and pendants and, other ornaments are set in the finest of beaded platinum; if largo stones are used they take the form of central solitaires, hanging flexibly in a frame of smaller brilliants. A striking looking trinket of a design that is going to be worn, is in pendant form hanging from a tiny platinum chain: it consists of a spider-web, with filaments done in the finest platinum, with innumerable dewrops caught among them, each taking the forjn of a diamond so small that one wonders how it could ever have been set and fixed. A large solitaire in the middle represents the owner in his home. BELT BROOCHES. Belts and girdles are to go, says tbo latest edict from Paris. No waistline is wanted, and where sashes belong to a dress they arc raised high at tlie back and made quite narrow. But though the belts are not wanted on fanciful Directoire gowns, belt brooches are found on nearly every style of dress for afternoon wear. And, apparently, the bigger the brooch the .better it is liked. For them all sorts of stones are set in copper, silver, and gold, one idea being to have thd stones made to match the costume. ILLUMINATED SHOES, Yet one more item of French origin —illuminated leather is the Parisienne’s fancy for new and daintv shoes. The softest of kid is chosen to match the gown, and then it undergoes an elaborate process of artistic tooling. 'When a quite light colored shoe is desired parchment toned suede is employed, and the illuminations arc made r<. as 'brilliant and dazzling ds will harmonise with the dress. NEW STOCKS. The high collar is still all the rage, and as an accompaniment there are prepared the prettiest little accessorios in the form of stocks and bows. -Some of the newest stocks in lane or lawn have quite a Pickwickian effect in tlie manner in whch they are swathed closely round and round the neck and ruffled and gauffered below it. Quaint silk stocks in vivid colorings are made very high, and encircle the throat in folds, terminating in a narrow dorr-collar band, with mitred ends, which buckles in front in businesslike fashion. Above the collar-band is shown a peep of a stand-ivp lmen col ar with dog-eared corners. These buck led neckbands are usually-made of velvet, and the color is generally something bright; the width is not generally more than an inch. Dainty frills of soft white lawn, finely kilted, adorn the Incroyable coat made of satin, and they help to emphasise its old-time air. One frill passes found the back and down the fronts of the coat, while another closely encircles the neck, where it is finished with a huge stock of black satin, drawn through, a gold buckle. On either side of the* white lawn frill the coat is finished with sharply pointed refers, and finished with large diamond buttons. Some of the more simple tailormade coats have a full white frilling as a finish to the wrist, and then carried up the back seam of the sleeve as high as the elbow. /

RETURN OF THE PICTURESQUE. For some time past, says a correspondent, the picturesque frock has suifered a certain effacement, for it lias scarcely been possible to associate the picturesque sentiment with the coldly severe and classical outline of the more pronounced of the Directoire costumes. By slow degrees, however, various softening influences have made themselves felt of late, notably-in the case of the silk gauze and chiffon shoulder scarves, whose graceful folds and long flowing lines have opened up endless possibilities in the way of artistic draping arrangement. Later m the season°the shoulder scarfs in various delicate transparent, fabrics will be very much in evidence,' chosen as a rule to match exactlv the color of the costumes with which they will be worn, especially in the case of smart afternoon and visiting gowns. For wearing with, evening frocks the scarves in fine gold or silver net will be very popular finished with bordering hems of gold or silver tissue and sometimes lightly embroidered with wreaths or garlands of flowers worked in fine metallic tinsel threads. Even in tjie matter of day i/rnvns says the same correspondent, the 1 picturesque note is- bang, rt™* most insistently, and a fiist step the ri'dit direction has been the gTaclu- ! lowering of the line of the waist. of thfe bodice, and then diaped J 1,0 ttlY'&evS to tto middle, where S ‘ Si ft be left long like a h a i m ost to the hem of rt Colored scarfs te arranged! ooktvell on dresses cf ivory