The FASHION REVIEW

Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 364, 13 November 1930, Page 2

The FASHION REVIEW

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The feminine world is convalescing from an unparalled revolution in styles. This revolution, which began in the great French designers’ salons (you can always depend upon the French to stage a thorough revolution) was followed (as all revolutions are) by a period of adjustment, or rather, maladjustment. The spring, summer and autumn of last year saw women bewildered and confused by the new trends or departures in fashion. grown suddenly waist-line conscious, awkward as school girls in their new clothes. Many of them

unprepared because (they had not heeded many repeated warnings and predictions of the change that has taken place, applied their belated perception of the new silhouette unwisely or indiscriminately to evening gowns and street clothes alike. The result was pathetic and even absurd. This unfortunate period of adjustment is over. Women have begun to adapt themselves both mentally and physically to the demands of this delightful new fashion era. They are wearing clothes better. They have dusted off their old-fashioned ideas of the pinched-in waist, the cape, the ’*. fitted bodice, the paletot, the long—** skirt, and made them modern, and their own. They have welcomed the return of cotton for the street, of organdie for the evening, of shallow • crowns, of evening gloves, and longer hair. They are beginning to realise that if new clothes take more courage they also give more elegance and expression of personality. And they are beginning to perceive that the world of modern fashion,' though Complicated, is no wilderness at all. And it is to be hoped that women will realise that it is these complications that tend to give individuality. That’s t what all women ore striving for, isn’t it?