FIRST OF THE NEW AUTUMN STYLES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 23, 11 February 1937, Page 14

FIRST OF THE NEW AUTUMN STYLES

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suggest Tunis. Alix, too, has a good degl to say in the new modes, not because she has been holidaying anywhere, but because she has suddenly developed a • new^ f oreefulness of purpose. This * she has demonstrated in the fact that when e.veryone had decided to abandon the seulptured gown as "passe" she.elung to it with great tenacity, ahd she has de-

Veloped a new seulptured line. She also has been responsiBle for the development of a new type of jersey cloth, silk for evening and woollen for day, but finer and heavier and less woven-looking than we have ever known thesn before. ' 'Black is completely running away with fashion this year," said a leading city huyer. "We anticipate that about 75 per cent*'o£ the fashion business will be in black." Greens will come second, and the new names include pine needles to spruce; grape, ineluding may-wine and inuscat are third on the list. For evening all the Coronation colours will be featured. Colour names always have appeal, and some included in a leading store's colour ehart are: For evening, delphinium blue, Bagdad blue, grape tone, Freneh violet, and starboard (a vivid green, almost emerald). For day we find pine needles and spruee green, bronzeen green, Longchamps blue, Bowie blue, and Chile brown, earamel brown, clay-tan, copper tone, red earth, spice tone and may-wine. Although we are promised smooth-surfaeed fabrics as a highlight of the new autumn1 fashions, the rough-surfaced boucles and hairy angoras will still continue to play a big part. And. some very interesting Rodier fabrics have already come to thgse shores, most of them with hair, monkey fur, feather, quills or lambs' wool tufts woven into them. Hats are higher off the f.ace, and we will be surprised to find quantities of new style berets once more obtruding themselves into the scheme of things. Also manhandled types of hats will assume even greater prominence than they did last year. Cheeky little birds and ever-so-long quills will make their appearanee. Trimmings will include Persian lamb, paracul and astrakan for coats, suits, day frocks and may even decorate lace evening gowns. Paillettes, beads, sequins and studs will sweep into favour once more. Embroideries of the Balmatian and Tunisian order .will prevail and a new red fox, the Kamtchatka, will make' its bow to society. Skirts will be 12 to 14 inches off the ground according to the type of garment being worn. Slight trains will appear on. evening gowns and the new ankle length for dinner or coektail gowns will come more into favour.