About Fashions

Southland Times, Issue 21100, 4 June 1930, Page 12

About Fashions

Already fashion “fans” on the other side are busy with prophesies about the great Ascot race meeting which begins in England on June 17.

Last year’s parade will always be famous for the weird and wonderful display of over-elaborate floral frocks hung with bits and pieces and with dipping hems trailing on the ground behind the wearers. The critics’ storm of protest has evidently borne fruit.

Gowns, say the “prophets” will be infinitely more sensible. They will be longer, but, not so “fussy.” Skirts will fall about eight to ten inches below the knee, but with none of the bedraggled wisps and bunchy flounces which made last, year’s strange creation so and uncomfortable.

Daffodil and spring green are “tipped” as two of the popular shades, and owing to the strenuous “Wear British Fabrics” campaign conducted by leading firms and newspapers over the last few months foreign materials will, it is thought, be replaced to a large extent by artificial silk, and cotton voiles and ninons from Lancashire. It is also predicted that, pale shades such as misty blues and tones taken from the summer seas and skies will be tremendously popular.