FASHION NOTES (Continued)

Never interlace your lines in geometri-
cal designing, Traceries used in the
geometrical design figures such as cord
ing, pleating, tucks,lines of stitching
in silk to match, Fabrics must follow
the rules of geometrical designing.

Another popular designing motif is
Trend of Line. An established fact is
the knowledge of form which is derived
from something already suggested. An
old saying -"There is nothing new under
the sun” - in this case of Trend it is
the revival of former vogues of re-
usable attraction. ;

Your basic influence of idea is taken
from some historical or poetic composi-
tion or any generation and by new var-
lation bring it back into usage again.
It is the evolution of bringing an idea
back for a modern trend, This feeling
has practically dominated the fashion
styles for this season. If your inspir-
ation comes from some periodic costume
or country let the idea be prowoked in-
to adaption to the last stroke of pres-
“ent day influences, Struggle until you
strike the note - which tunes it up-to-
date, but always reproduce your trend
with all the relative values you can
form into it. It is permissable in the
fashion business to have a skirt the
reflection of a revised trend and a
modern blouse or bodice just the rever-
sé. You will have to use your own dis-
cretion in designing as some ideas are
reduced while others are exaggerated.
Many a trend of style comes from the
Simplest and commonest adaptions and
many from the ultra inspirations as the
Classic,Gothic, Oriental, etc., not for
getting those not long ago styles which
are a veritable treasuretrove of trends
just waiting to be rercreated.

In the field of fashion illustration
every successful artist has a good know
ledge of drawing but the main idea is
to combine with good illustrating tech-
nique an air of chic and elegance which
is the mode. You must eliminate, draw
with simplicity - not forgetting to em-
phasize the dress and place it on a
figure who depicts poise and smartness,
That is the surest of good fashion draw
ing, and as Hamlet put it "Aye- there's
the rubi"

Edith Tweedie.

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TULIP

A GLIMPSE

TAND

AT HOLLAND

Ph ssiiin
When the London and North Eastern
Express started on her nightly journey

to Harwich for the Hook of Holland, it
was as though a magic carpet were
spread beneath her great wheels and she
was carrying me off to an unknown land
and unknown adventures, What could be
more exciting?

Leaving London one Saturday night
last December, I arrived at the coast
and boarded the Channel steamer which
arrived at the Hook about 6 o'clock the
next morning. I looked out of my win-
dow and beyond lay Holland harbouring
in those dimmed distances unimagined
experiences and delights.

The impression I had gleaned from
various descriptions of the train jour~
ney from the Hook to the Hague was some
thing to be got through before entering
into the real joys of Holland. They
seemed to suggest an apology for the
flatness of the land and left one dis-
armed for the beauties of it. But there
is something infinitely peaceful in
these lands which stretch so smoothly
into the distance and merge into the
Skies, Always these skies are beauti-
ful, sometimes a soft grey, sometimes
they have the russet glow which Rem- .
brandt loved to paint. Dotting the -
landscape are the windmills and seatt-
ered homesteads with the cows and sheep
pigs and horses grazing in their dyke
protected meadows, The first journey
in a new country must always be excit-
ing - to catch for the first time a

glimpse of those thing of which one
has been told but whose existence one
has more or less doubted: the first

white head-dress (worn by an old lady
on a station platform), the first gleam
of a brightly-painted house front,the
first canal, and the endless succession
of bicycles in the streets.

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