Glove Designers Prepare To Meet Fashion Changes

Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1948, Page 8

Glove Designers Prepare To Meet Fashion Changes

GLOVE designers are well prepared to meet the trend towards more elegant fashions for women and have the situation well in hand. The simple tailored clothes of the past 10 years called for simple, unobtrusive gloves, b»ut recent changes in f'ashions are demanding more dressy gloves, both for day and evening wear.

AS with other fashion trends, however, there will be a danger of some styles being over-elab-orate. It will be" the gloves which combine sophistication with restraint which will be in the best taste. - SMART women will reserve the most dressy types Jor the cockran hour and onwards, not for street wear. Both in France and America this vogue is noticeable, and some sparkling styl-es for evening have begdn to appear in Auckland. Emphasising that Frehch gloves have always enjoyed an unchallenged reputation the world over, a correspondent, Yvonne Zermati, from Paris, tells how designers have now reco.vered from the difficulties which confronted them during the war and afterWards. , During the month of May, she writes, there is a glove week called "Les journees du Gant' Francais," and ail glove shops have a window display presented with mnniLe tasfe and artistry, of all that is new in gloves. There are gloves in all lengths, coiours and materials, many of them being shor.t gloves which stop short at the wrist. With tne tea and apertif hour appear the, gloves of, fantasy and elegance. Light grey taffeta gloves with very fine black stripes are drawn tight at the jyrist py a ruffle of black lace and then balloon out above the wrist into a gauntlet. The gauntlet is a hot favourice and it is usually in supple antdlope. Very often it is worn turned back nonchalantly to reveal a contrasting colour— black with contrasting yellow, green, turquoise or pink, and sometimes the contrasting shade is repeated in the intervals between i the.flngers. { A three-quarter length glove of black antelope is embroidered in biack silk thread making graceful arabesques while tiny gold studs are scattered here and there. In pink and turquoise blue there are gloves of finest ki'd drawn tight at the wrist and opening out in corolla form. I particularly admired a pair of three-quarter length s'uede gloves in a fascinating elusive shade of silver gr.een which brought to mind the subtle tones of the aspen leaf trembling in the breeze. They had a border and fringe of about two' inches in •delicate mauve ■which made a most harmonious contrast.