Princess's Tour Frocks Are Moderately Simple

Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1949, Page 4

Princess's Tour Frocks Are Moderately Simple

During her holiday in >Jtaly, Pfincess Margaret has worn many 'of the lovely .dresses made for the pbsuponed Austrafian and Kew f Zealand tour, writes Winifrxde 'Jackson in the "Daily Telegraph." rine day dresses 'are two inches shorter than those she wore lasi J summer. They are now mid-caJjj length. | Most of the styles she has chosen ' are cut on simple lines and moderately fullkkirts and fittedbodices. , Their simpiicity is dramatised by/ fiattering neckline treatment§. I As aiways, the Princess prefers*. '■ the more colourful pastel tones, 'sueh as the strawberry-pink tussore ; silk dress with white polka-dots . designed by Molyneux. The kerchief r \ cape collar draped low over one

shoplder is very youthful and charming, iSpotted fabrics appeal to her as a way of introducing coL our contrast without exaggeration. Her other chosen coiours are primrose, rose and daffodil yellow and pale leaf green. - One of the Prinpess's favourite,' models is her first black evening' dress designed by Hartnell in soft tulie. Graduated layers- of pleatci . tulle form a romantic crinoline skirt, with a eluster of simple marguerites at the waist. Everybody knows how fond Princess Margaret isof the 'off-shoulder neckline for evening. It is f eatured in this dress in bateau style with frills of net.