The Newest Frocks
(From Our Correspondent.) London. An innovation in dress shows took place this week, when one of the most exclusive drapery houses took the ballroom, adjoining salons and the garden tea-rooms in one of the biggest of the new hotels, to show "their collection, It was a very lengthy sitting. There were Court gowns as well as wedding gowns, and a great multitude of tea gowns. A notable feature of the show was the insistence on the use of black and white and black and pink for very smart clothes
for both day and evening. They were for ' older women while pastel tints prevailed tor ' youth. One evening ensemble in black and ; white romaine had a bodice which came I down to a white point into the black skirt I at the back, only a bertha of white showing in front. Another black dinner dress had a big posy of pink and black Howers at the waist, while a pink and black evening dress
was fashioned with a pink taffeta top. A good deal of new uncrushible net is being used in several different weights, in jersey net, and finer fishnet. And there is new and charming double georgette called “fleur de soie,” which is being used in making the favourite princess styles for dance wear. This was shown in the new dusty white, and showed clever panels put on perpendicularly to give fulness to the skirt. Jewels were shown at all the parades in the form of brooches and buckles, which were fixed at the back of dresses where there was a long open back line. But at many shows this open back • was modified in so many ways that, it ceased to be as revealing as was at first thought. It remained the smartest treatment of backs, but as it was often filled in with transparent nude chiffon, or with fine lace towards the end of the point, it was not as difficult to wear as was thought at first,
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Southland Times, Issue 21100, 4 June 1930, Page 12
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334The Newest Frocks Southland Times, Issue 21100, 4 June 1930, Page 12
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