LATE MAIL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1920, Page 4

LATE MAIL NEWS.

£3 BERLIN TEAGOWNS. BERLIN, Feb. 24. Berlin’s Fashion Fail', which will last a week, starts to-day. It is a revelation of Germany’s capacity for turning out women’s clothes at prices which at the present rate of exchange would sound to an Englishwoman like an echo of a beautiful buried past. Blouses, jumpers, and afternoon dresses of the finest silk, batiste, crepe de chine, and voile embroidered with elaborate insertions and stitching, are to be had for 350 marks, which is the official rate of exchange to-day for £l. Dresses and tea gowns of elaborate trimming are priced at £3 instead of tho £2O they would cost in London. It should be noticed, however, that Berlin shopkeepers have taken a common decision to increase all prices to foreigners by 25 per cent.

THE TROUSERS SKIRT. BRUSSELS, Feb. 24. Walking down the Avenue Louise today „I caught sight of a daring costume. Emerging from the Bois at the fashionable. hour was a. young woman in a lull dark velvet skirt, a three-quarter length fur coat, and an extremely deeolletee blouse. She wore a string of fine pearls about her neck, long white kid gloves to protect her bare arms, and a black tulle hat with aigrettes. Ac a: distance everything looked normal, but at close range it was seen that the skirt was gathered into a kind of Oriental trouser just above each boot-top. Women exchanged glances, and soon the woman was followed by a crowd. She escaped into a-tramway-car.