SACKCLOTH FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 73, 28 March 1933, Page 11

SACKCLOTH FOR WOMEN

SPRING FABRICS, IN PARIS

The full banquet of spring modes has not yet! been served to the trade buyers and others who are now gathering in Prfris (states an overseas correspondent). .

A tendency this season to speed up fashion has, however, made many enterprising dress designers produce piquant cocktails and hors d'oeuvres to the main feast to come.

These very advance models, consequently, come into more than, their fair share of/publicity, and in many cases their fashion1 life, though bright, is brief. Others indicate more denned trends, and may even settle down into the favoured state of; becoming bestsellers.

Fashion, for example, appears to be taking gaily to sackcloth, and though the traditional ashes are omitted, all manner of string and twine-knitted or woven fabrics have commended themselves to many of the dress designers who have launched their new styles. Plaited twine belts encircle the waistline, which important detail, by the way, may be high, low, or natural. It depends on the individual designer and the purpose of the garment. The skeleton coat, another striking novelty of the moment tliat is carried out in one of these queer new twine canvas woven fabrics, is made without sleeves and has a three-quarter length tunic effect, split up one sids with a trimming of black fox at the hem. The particular model I saw had'a plaited string belt and was shown worn over a _ carroty red crepe : de-cuine dress. Window cording is used chiefly to givo the line of a belt, on lainage frocks. The carroty red shade just mentioned is making a bold bid for favour and is being used to cheer i^p the' greige and beige tones that the dress houses are still featuring. New shades are pumpkin yellow and the paler "gold button" yellow, and a good deal of pink runs through the various collections as at present revealed. '

One woman fashion-creator, known for the graceful and youth-giving character of her models, is making a sirong point of evening gowns in charming tones of mauve, pink, and pale blues, and to make these dainty creations even more alluring is supplying evening wigs to match. These look captivating in blonde silken hair washed with a slightly darker.tint than the. gowns they accompany. ■ _

W«ddingsl* Simplicity and charm in arrangement The present-day fashion £ot brides' and bridesmaids* bouquets by Miss Murray. 36 Willis Street. Tel. 40-541,—Advt ""

BEES-BODY STRIPES

LONDON FUR-CRAFT

Bees-body stripes are spreading with amazing rapidity in London fur-craft, so much so that furriers are vying with each other to make the stripes of their summer scarves and muffs most effective in colouring (spates the "Daily Telegraph"). Among new things shown by a leading fur.-craftsman was a scarf striped diagonally in putty and nigger, ermine, with a muff to match in spiral effect. A similar set in real broadtail was dyed in the same tones, and an effective ensemble was made up of a' little cape, muff, and furgauntlet chamois gloves in rose du Barry and black ermine. .'. •

Today's most successful method of working moleskin is' the insertion of narrow bands of black sealskin. The idea was first originated more than ten years ago in London-.and now appears as the* latest novelty. Mole and sealskin when worked in this stranded effect give, a long, graceful silhouette. The ■■ bluish-grey. tint of the mole, accentuated by the alternate strands of glossy jet black, is particularly becoming to the brunette.

Moleskin alone has suffered unpopularity owing to its poor wearing qualities. The addition of the sealskin rectifies this drawback, and, being a little longer in hair than the mole and worked in the opposite sense of the fur, it forms an effective guard • against wear and tear. -

Tho "Poche" sleeve, a novelty ,of the season, which is suQh a success in the now collection, appears on one mole and seal model shown in London. A long diagonal cut in the fur, fashioned from tho bend of the arm in front to the elbow line, forms, a;pocket in the top sleeve, while .the tinder part remains quite plain, the cuff being narrow at the wrist. The body part of this model is worked plain in the long, narrow' strands, while tho high roll collar is cut on one-sided lines, with the left back overlapping tho right side. •