ART PREVIEW

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 102, 27 October 1945, Page 12

ART PREVIEW

FORMAL DRESS AGAIN The opening of the Spring Exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts last evening by his Excellency the Governor-General was reminiscent of pre-war private views, with all the 400 guests present wearing formal evening dress once .more. Velvets, taffeta, and cloque crepes were worn in a variety , of : colours that was refreshing to see after the years of austerity £ rocking. Headdresses, too, were given an added interest with brilliant clasps and combs, flowers tucked into* upswept rolls, one young woman wearing a black tulle head-veil spangled with sequins. Her Excellency Lady Newall was wearing a gown of white slipper satin, with diamante embroideries at the deep, square neckline, beneath a fulllength coat of wine-red velvet. Her tiara and earrings were of diamonds and she: also wore pearls. Miss Nora Walton, who accompanied her, was wearing a white, shortsleeved gown with gold embroideries at the waistline. '

A cyclamen and blue-shot taffeta gown .was worn by Mrs. G. G. Gibbes Watson, wife of the president. Among those present were: Sir Patrick and Lady Duff. Mr. Charles Fleming, : Mr. Leslie Lefeaux, Dr. Morice and Miss Constance Morice, Mrs. Sinclair Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Ewen, Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Button, Dr. and Mrs. P. Benham, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Wauchop, Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Webster, Mrs. Tom Seddon,-Mrs. Hubert Nathan, Mrs. W. A. Riddell, Mr. and Mrs. E. -W.-G. Coleridge, Lady Shirtcliffe,; Mrs. Barry Blundell, Mrs. Tom Pacey, Miss Jean Pacey, Miss Majorie Mills, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Carr, Mrs. Hempton and Miss Moya Hempton, Mrs, Schofield and Miss Eila Schofield,'.-' Mrs. Hilton Richards, Mrs. Thompson and Miss Marguerite Thompson, Lady Frazer, Mrs. Edward Bell, Mr. and: Mrs.: Gerald Bradshaw. Mrs. A. B. Gibbons, Miss Estelle Beere, Mrs. W: H. Gledhill, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rogers, Colonel D. Stout, Dr. R. Stout, Mr. Russell Clark. Mr. John Jerram, Mrs. J. P. Stouppe. Miss Florence Hislop, -Mr, and Mrs. Denis McGrath, Mrs. O. T. Evans. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griffin, Mrs. G. H. Scott and Miss. Irene Scott, Mrs. James Bennie and Miss Marjorie" Bennie, Miss Batham, Miss Dorothy Buck, Dr. Marshall Macdonald, Miss Molly Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Perry. Misses Barbara and Mary Allan, / Mrs. Jones and Miss Gwyneth Jones, Mrs. Gilbert King and Miss Shirley King, Miss Valeric Beere, Mrs. M. Whitt, Mrs. Tony Lowe, Miss Claudine Hawkins, Captain aiid Mrs. V. G. Webb, and Mr. E. D. Gore, secretary.