Lemon yellow with two shades of palest fuchsia; lemon with pink; lime green; brilliant, bold stripes for evening coats and dresses: prints with cherubic themes in softly-blended colours—all these were seen a dress show this month, Evening gloves, a different colour on each hand, were slashed at the back. One pair in gold kid was close-fitting and cut exactly like a sports gloves.
The mannequins wore gilt jewellery in the form of coins, rings, seals, or other fantasies dangling from moire neckbands which were tied in a bow at the back of the neck.
Beauty patches, say a red heart or a gold star, were placed on cheek or forehead.
Despite the gay new colours, black took the palm for chic.
A black day dress had a yoke of coarse white lace. A black bolero suit had stiffened white lace outline ing the jacket. White lace was used again for the brim of a tiny black sailor hat.
A black wool suit was worn with a pale blue blouse and a tilted hat trimmed with pale blue wings and streamers.
And a black cocktail dress showed the new line: an apron skirt—a real apron, of the same material as the dress, draped to a deep V in front.
Hats were tiny, tilted and boat-shaped, mostly in coarse straw, Nearly all of them had velvet streamers or were draped with chiffon scarves round the brim and floating down the back.
The Colonial hats—wide, flat-crowned straws, cut away at the back—all had long, sun-cheating chiffon veils in one or two colours covering the back of the neck.
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