A Casual Tie Belt

Southland Times, Issue 20081, 19 January 1927, Page 11

A Casual Tie Belt

(From Our Correspondent.) London. It is some months since at a worldfamous dance club I saw the first of the careless, nonchalantly tied belts on evening gowns. This was made of a double fold of white georgette, and, as it had been tied with considerable energy, it did look rather like a string. Yet it was on a white georgette dress so thickly encrusted with pearl beads and blister pearls that its appearance and obvious cost inspired respect.

Since then the practice of having a casual tie-belt, and fastening it, with as little ceremony as is accorded that on a golf jumper, has grown. Often the belt is made of a piece of material to match the dress and is only an inch or so wide. It is drawn rather tightly round the figure, causing the frock to pouch slightly. A pink lame dress the other night had as its belt a string of cherry-coloured glass beads. The satin shoes were cherry colour and so was the shoulder knot of organdi, which took chrysanthemum form. A considerable proportion of the prettiest frocks in the London dance places just now take jumper form with the skirt finely pleated. A good way to weight the jumper and keep it in place is to have a strip of leaded tape in the hem or to follow the example of Miss Gladys Gray's gold tissue gown in “The Last of Mrs Cheyne}’,” at the St. James’s Theatre. This has a very long bugled tassel at the right side, the jumper being cut obliquely at the hem and going lower at the right. Another good feature of that frock is afforded by the long tie ends of tissue finishing the V-shape corsage.