Dress Designing and Fashions

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5305, 18 January 1947, Page 3

Dress Designing and Fashions

by leading american designers PREDICTIONS FOR 1947 i Adrian, America's "top-notch" dress designer, says 'there will be so much liberation in fashion in 1947 that women will have to take "great [ care not to get themselves tangled in yards of fabrie and fluif. Here are other shadows of coming events : —

Lilly Dache: "Women will wear more tailored clothes than for inauy years. Hats will be smaller, simpler, and many untrimmed; and festive hats will be reserved for festive occasions." Omar Kiam: "There will be a general softening of the silhouctte — less of the too-hard shoulder, less of the too-tight waistline, less of the too-rigid silhouette." Brooke-Cadwallader, textilc designer: "Fabrics in 1947 will be supple and rich in colour. There will be very little of the 'amusing print.' Beauty ancl design will count." Fira Benenson, dress designer: "Women will go all out for looking pretty instead of useful in 1947. Things are in such a mess generally that women won't want to look as if they could do anything about it." Mabel Jubahelli, shoe designer: "Shoes will have many new ancl much more streamlined shapes. They'll be smoothly curved and not lumpy — if platforms are used they'll be very shallow. Shoes will have great clegance — no enormous bows or nail heads. Workmanship will be finer and more delicate in many new materials — look for embroidery and beading." Roy Tilles, hosiery authority: "Even with nylon?s wearability, the 1947 dressy stocking will be a weartwice fashion accessory. Cobwebs of 10 and 15 denier weight in black ancl colours, psrhaps embroidered m jewels, will decorate the leg for evcning." Lura De Gez, hair stylist: "Hair will be worn short and sweet, brushed ancl neat, to go with the tailored look for daytime. For formal wear the contour c-f the hairline must show — more effects of draping than obvious curls. False puffs will be very goocl in line with flucy trend in colours for evening."

Valentina snms.np her predietion with the same old perennial truth — there will be a very sharp division between c*lothes worn hy real leaders of fashion and the "followers." She says that women of real perception and foresight will dress with stark simplicity, except at home. The others will still be in fancy dress — with too much trimming ancl fuss as they l.ave been throughout the war. Carric Munn, dress designer: "Women will have a choice of looking slim and ultra-modern — not like any other woman who has ever gone before — or as lush, extravagant, and flucy as an 18th'century duchess. The first type of clothes will feature underdone clecoration and hold colours. On the second, anything will go in the way of fuss and feathers."