At a Dress Show

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

At a Dress Show

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Her show began with clothes for sports and morning wear. For these she showed skirts of reasonable length and a great variety of materials. The tweedy clothes had hats and caps to match. There were beige and black tweeds, beige and brown tweeds, emerald green worsted, and some charming cashmere mixtures in red and grey and beige and brown, while for summer she showed smart suits in shantung. Coat frocks in summer weight tweeds were particularly smart. The coat frock is well back into fashion, neatened up with a fitted line and a waist.

There was much blue, also teal, shown in her collection. Teal is fashionable for afternoon and evening, and also for sports wear in worsted. A lovely reception outfit in blue georgette had a three-quarter coat unlined and trimmed with grey fox, while an afternoon gown in midnight blue romaine, the shade that is like a bright navy, was made with a bolaro. Powder blue was used for a decorative afternoon gown with the fashionable clinging hipline.

The tightness of many of the frocks at the back was less trying in the models at this house, because'they were moulded to meet the fulness, but the tightness on the hips is going to be the big trouble in the future.

The very high collar has disappeared from all clothes. On short coats the “Johnny” collar is seen everywhere, and versions of it are also used on long coats. But there is also a bare neck look given by means of a cape, like a policeman’s bordered in fur, and set to swing with its own weight, just below the elbow. This was shown on a brown hopsac coat trimmed with fox.

Dusty white, or broken white, is being featured at all the dress shows. It is good in satin, but looks dirty in chiffon and georgette. Far better are the new satins in pearly shades, . showing iridescence of blue or green. French firms are calling this dirty white “Isabcau” white and are featuring it.