HOUR-GLASS WAISTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 11

HOUR-GLASS WAISTS

THE "ENGLISH FIGURE'

Hour-gLass waistlines and straight skirts; printed silk coats with plain dresses; Scotch tweeds as fine as French silk; a hobble-skirted evening "suit"; and a dinner frock made of hundreds of yards of coral, jade, and grape-blue braid. These were some of the leading fashion points shown at- the opening parade of the London dress show season recently, states the "Daily Mail."

The designer, Jane Munns, falls in with the main ideas which are dominating the fashion field this spring. "But," she explained, "I am empiiasising the nipped-in, corseted waistline and ignoring the shapeless 'swagger' coats so popular in Paris. These coats falling from the shoulder are not becoming to the English figure." Also, while pearl grey was well in evidence in London as in Paris, particularly in the new alliance with mustard yellow, there were no plaids in this collection. Instead there were daring colour-mixtures, notably a vivid coral' suit in a new Shetland tweed so fine that it looked like a silk tricot. This was accompanied by a turquoise blue.blouse made of a new cotton net reminiscent of a curtain fabric.

The suit was cut with a narrow,skirt and a definitely "hour-glass" jacket moulding the figure. Already dressmakers are thinking of the London season. An Ascot gown, cut well above ankle-length, was composed of diagonal strips of dove-grey satin and crepe.