LUXURY GAS MASKS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 67, 27 September 1939, Page 3

LUXURY GAS MASKS

DRESS DESIGNS SUIT THE OCCASION London, Sept. 10. Luxury dress designers spent the first five days of the war glamorising gas masks —and deglamorising clothed Crocodile, field-fitted gas mask con tr.iners, carrying brandy flasks, torch comb, powder and lipstick, for night dashes to shelter, and costing £100 are selling in Bond Street. Schiaparelli is making slip-on zipper gas mask covers, matching autumn models. The actrcss. Poulett, took the gas mask cover initialled in semiprecious stones, to a London wedding. A tailor, Digby Morton, has designed a new voluntary service uniform, in dull green Cheviot tweed.. It consists of a double-breasted military coat, with navy pockets and short skirt. Lady Reading ordered the first, costing £2."), and many copies soon appeared in the department tsores at £2 ss. The "Blackout" Hat. Molyneux : s closing his saloon for a week, to enable the construction of a plush-carpeted shelter for clients. He is also installing underground cubicles, and an air raid canteen, providing champagne, coffee, caviare, and sandwiches. Hartnell is stipping clothes o? the ; r fiivolities, and making service uniforms. But lie is featuring models which' can be whipped up in one day for women whose menfolk are returning on leave at short notice. Aage Tiiaarup is introducing "black-out" hat>, trimmed Avith a white flower end feather ofi st'ffened lace to make the Avearer visible at night time. The more expensive restaurants are relaxing the evening dress rule, realising it is impossible for patrons to dash for shelter in long skirts.