The Archive · 1928

Endless Opportunities for Variation

The fashion affords a woman endless opportunities for varying the [FELT ANO STHAW COMBINATIONS STRIKE A NEW SPRING NOTE 1 MILZINERY appearance of her toilette. It has, however, its dangers. For whereas the clever woman gifted with a dress sense can make the scarf a decorative and' chic addition to th gown with which it is worn, in the hands of a less ingenious owner it may set the final seal of dowdiness on a not too well chosen scheme of areas!

Jewellery is still an important factor in fashionable schemes. Evening as well as day gowns are finished with a long broach or un ornament consisting of slides, or inks joined, or it may be by squares of cornelian, or jade, or onyx. Wide bracelets are worn, and there is still no hint that sham jewellery—the more sham it looks the belter in anything but good taste.

Belts repeating one colour in 2 dress scheme are worn with jumper suits. Some of these belts are iny wide, others no more than If an inch or less in width.

Among the handbags some of the most attractive are for the evening and instead of the ordinary rigi frame one finds mounts nade in sections to form a square when open, an arrangement that greatly facilitates the business of extracting powder-puft or Li appear in unexpected places, Sometimes on the handle of the modish dumpy umbrella, sometimes in the shouted the form of an exquisite "Opinion." "Any more interruptions and I finishes. up—leavin' yer ignorant of the horrible times in which yer lives."

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