Clothes & Their Details

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 5

Clothes & Their Details

OUR 30/- DRESS

The Accommodating Mode

The betwixt and between seasons are always just a little bit difficult where clothes are concerned, and more particularly the transition season between autumn and winter.

But already we have had many forerunners of the delightful things that will be le dernier cri when the chilliest days of winter are with us. t rocks still keep their straight lines, but are not so severely plain as they were. Stitchings, pipings and pleats are everywhere in evidence. The stitching and pipings on frocks may show a delightful variety of treatment. They appear diagonally across the full length of the dress front or they may be all round it, with just the suspicion of a tiny lift at the sides to maintain the slim outline. _ Sleeves of outdoor dresses show a diversity of trimmings, new ideas being stitching and bands running down the outsides and in some cases a yoke-like effect coming over the shoulders where the sleeves are set. Contrasting materials are being used largely in a number of the newest frocks that we have seen. Checks of course are still with us, and some intriguing materials we saw recently had a combined pattern of checks and flowers. These should look particularly well when combined with a plain colour. The many varieties of kasha cloth are still popular, while repp is still a best-beloved, and sedan cloth and gabardine continue to hold their own. An attractive new development is a woollen crepe de chine, and another is a “flat” satin —that is, a heavy satin that has been finished with a matt, instead of a shiny surface. This lastnamed fabric drapes charmingly and should be the inspiration of some bewitching frocks. HOME DRESSMAKING ONLY The SUN'S Dress Competition is confined to amateurs, and professional dressmakers are not eligible. A committee of three expert dress designers will be appointed to judge the exhibits, which will remain the property of the competitors, and .till be returned within one week of the award being made.

The following shops are SUN advertisers and can supply the required materials: John Court Ltd., Queen Street; Bradstreets Ltd., ICarangahape Road; Rendells Ltd., Karanga hape Road; The House of Flackson Karangahape Road; Hart Bros., Queen Street; Farmers’ Trading Co., Hobson Street; Kelleways, Broadway, Newmarket; Potts’ Drapery Score, Broadway, Newmarket; Scotts, Karangahape Road. Several of the above firms are offering Consolation Prizes to the value of £2 2s to anyone of the six entries placed by the judges in order of merit. CONDITIONS 1- —The competition is open to SUN readers throughout New Zealand. 2- —The materials used in making the dresses entered in this competition must have been purchased from shops advertising in THE SUN and the total cost must not exceed 30s. —The dress must be seasonable and suitable for wearing out of doors. 4.—Cash dockets, showing the purchases of the material used, must be sent in along with the dress for the inspection of the judges. 6. —The decision of the committee of three expert dressmakers appointed by THE SUN to judge the entries must be accepted by competitors as final, and from which there may be no appeal. 6. —Entries are to be at the disposal of THE SUN for one week after the judging is complete, for the purpose of exhibition, after which they will be returned to competitors. 7. —Each competitor must enclose her name and address in a sealed envelope and pin it to her exhibit. 8. —Notice of Intention to compete must be given on the coupon published below and posted or delivered to THE SUN Office on or before Saturday, May 21. 9. —All dresses entered in this competition must be wrapped in parcels and delivered to THE SUN, Wyndham Street, Auckland, on or before Tuesday, May 31, addressed: Manager, THE SUN 30/- Dress Competition, c/o The Lady Editor, THE SUN, Auckland.