CHEERFUL LONDON

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1933, Page 6

CHEERFUL LONDON

PROSPERITY AND FASHIONS

JOY-CREATING COLOURS.

LONDON, December lo

London, as Mr E. H. Svinonds (of tho British Fashions and Fabrics Bureau) remarks, is fast becoming the world’s best-dressed capital. Her restaurants, hotels and clubs arc filled at night with women more elegantly gowned than those of Paris or New York. While depression is growing in Paris and visibly demonstrating itself in the clothes of Frenchwomen London is becoming more cheerful and confident-.

Mr Synioiids believes wo are on the thrcshhold of a world-wide revival of confidence and tliat 1933 will go down in history as the post-war prosperity revival year.

Among the many joy-creating colours that will he seen shortly there will he :—Sunshine, honey flower, sunkissed rose, goldfish, pumpkin, popcorn, mother-of-pearl, golden broom, butterfly blue, love-bird green, semibright brick and clove beige. Hats will be jaunty and dresses will he cf beautiful materials, with classic lines expressing the new spirit- of the nge— cheerfulness and lightheartedness.

Waxed satin' will he an ontsanding •feature for evening wear; featherweight wool materials, artificial silks rand’mixture fabrics for-daytime.

The long -afternoon, gowns w ill have sleeves, thus rendering them suitable for both day and evening wear.

The all-wool coat-frock dress of prewar days will be a n interesting and pleasing revival, specially helpful to the wool textile trade.

Buttons, large and small, of wood and metal, will he seen in abundance. Feather'flowers will he featured on many evening .gowns, in pastel colours, either contrasting or harmonising with the" 'material of the dress.

Ca'pelots will continue to he fashionable detail,'both for afternoon and evening wear, bordered either with fur or silk fringe. Fabric designs will embrace checks, plaids, chevrons, herring-bones; lioncy-conihs, rings and spots—from pin-head to half-crown in size!’.’