"EXPANSIVE" FASHIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1920, Page 3

"EXPANSIVE" FASHIONS

LONDON,' Jan. 18. Rumours of drastic changes in fashion are giving many anxious moments to some women. If a woman intends not to be dowdy, must she face the fact that her wardrobe will have to be renewed entirely ? Above all, is the crinoline coming? A West End dressmaker answered that question yesterday in the affirmative, but, seeing the look of horror on her hearer’s face, quickly qualified her assertion. “Some of the big Raids designers are pushing it,” she said, “and I am bound to admit its charm. Change is very alluring, and we have not been expansive for a long time.—Rut it is distinctly a fashion only for girls, and in the evening. It will not affect day. time dress, though that, too, is to be fuller than its winter predecessors. “Here is a crinoline frock,” she continued, indicating a bewitching-looking ball gown, made of flowered net * n shades of “old” pink, with rosebuds catching up the draperies here and there and a rose taffeta bodice clinging closely to the figure,. “Rut,’’ tl\e uressmaker went oil, “a 1 broad line divides the coming modes of the matron and the maid. Mothers and daughters will have fashions designed for them separately. For the Junoesque figure there will be a continuance 01 file straight lines of the tunic- and chemise dress so favourable to the robust, and that fact will make, for economy, with many another in the new repertory, “Neither are we going to ask anyone to abandon the short skirt—but it must not be too short! 4 ’