Evening Dress From Over-Skirt

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 5 January 1949, Page 3

Evening Dress From Over-Skirt

Peggy Cummins favours overskirts to transform her basic dresses into evening dresses. She is especially fond of a white organdie overskirt she has had made for summer evenings. The over-skirt simply ties on around the waistline, thus converting a simply styled black crepe dress into a chic gown for restaurant or informal parties. She adds a pearl choker and earrings, and elbow length white gloves. Her other accessories consist of black ankle strap shoes and a tiny black pouch handbag. Valuable Cocktail Dress If Virginia Field’s cocktail dress in her next film “Repeat Performance ” has a regal air about it, it’s not without reason. The gown is fashioned of rare cloth of silver sent her by the fabulously wealthy Maharajah of Cooch-Bahar, near Calcutta, India. Metallic silver, beaten fabric thin, was used in creating the unusual material, valued at more than £s(' per yard. Miss Field born in England first met the Maharajah-to-be while they were both youngsters in London, and they have been friends ever since.