Luxury Accessories Appearing Again At London Fashion Shows

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 30, 8 December 1948, Page 3

Luxury Accessories Appearing Again At London Fashion Shows

Many more shops in London this season are staging their own dress shows, inviting their clients to afternoon or early evening fashion parades, says a report in the Recorder. Simpson’s, Piccadilly, have done this all through utility years, still show a selection of the best utility, along with the best of controlled, ceiling price clothes, but now include, for the first time, such luxurious accessories as fine handmade shoes and matching gloves. Their speciality has always been sports clothes, so thope who plan to 1 spend their £35 allowance abroad seeking winter sports are looked after with understanding. Day clothes, for travel and the country, have the characteristic sporting touch.

In shades of nigger and natural, a herringbone tweed suit by Hebe Sports takes its country look from brown leather binding of jacket collar, revers and fronts. It is real country-man’s corduroy in the double-breasted coat, which has sporting style when belted and hangs, without the belt, like a threequarter length swagger.' Ski trousers are topped by welldesigned hand-knitted sweaters and windproof ski jackets Which are changed for a softer corduroy or wool jacket in the intervals between ski-ing.

A wool jersey shirt is a pleaasnt change from the inevitable sweater or twin set with a bright contrast waistcoat taking the place of the cardigan. It is one way of wearing colours in brilliance, especially teamed up with a tartan skirt, made with a cuff hem, like trousers.

Among the Simpson town clothes is a coat and two black dresses, one by Protos, of the line now being called directoire —straight front, fullness drawn to the centre skirt back and topped at ' the waist by a bow—the other, by Lady in Black, of wool, with velvet applique hem which had the suspicion of a back dip, the scalloped applique repeated round the neck to a deep V and sloping shoulders. The coat of black wool, by Reville, has velvet cuffs and a velvet yoke in star shape. Holding in the skirt fullness to a snug waist is one of the new shaped patent leather belts which give that lower, rounded waist line look at the back.