BRIDGE PARTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 4

BRIDGE PARTY

Mrs F C. Webster, of Shelly Beach Road, Herne Bay, was the hostess at a delightful bridge party last evening o-iven in farewell to Mrs. R. Morrison, of .Wanganui, who has been staying m Auckland for some weeks. The house was charmingly decorated with fragrant stocks in deep rose tones and sweet peas in shades of palest pink and mauve. Mrs. Webster received her guests wearing an attractive gown of sequined black ninon, banded with rose sequined motifs, whose colour was accentuated by her scarf of hand-painted rose tulle. „ , _ , Miss R. Webster wore a frock of pale primrose taffeta inset with gold lace in the skirt and bodice. Among the guests were:--Mrs. Morrison, whose frock of powder blue georgette was relieved with a pretty rhinestone design. . , , Mrs. Wilford, in a frock of black georgette and lace. Mrs. Torrance, wearing cherry and red satin, faconne and georgette. Mrs. Upton, in a frock of leaf green chiffon girdled with diamante. Mrs. Blaikie, who wore a heavily sequined gown of moonlight blue georgette. Mrs. Raymond in a frock of ivory georgette beaded in crystal. Mrs. Webber, who chose navy blue georgette inset with ecru lace. Mrs. Lloyd, wearing a frock of Pomplain rose crepe de chine. Mrs. A. Watson, who wore a deep petunia-coloured frock of satin carreau. Miss Stanaway in a frock of ivory georgette and lace. Miss Waters, wearing a delphinium blue taffeta frock. Miss Carruthers, whose frock was of geranium pink taffeta and lace. . Miss West, wearing a beige georgette frock panelled with lace. Miss B. Thomson, who wore a buttercup yellow frock of georgette with gold sequins.

“It must be trousers, or the 014 period fashions revived.” Such is the dictum of Paris; and in particular of the designer who first tentatively introduced the slim straight lines that metamorphosed the dress code of Western civilisation. The post-war revolution, sartorially speaking, has gone as far as it may in the direction of healthy and rational garb. The virtual standardisation of the mode is proof thereof. There has been nothing really startlingly new since we discarded whalebone and tight collars. If there is to be any sort of advance movement it can be only in one direction, as foreshadowed by abbreviated skirts. The one alternative is a retrograde progression toward the "period” styles of an older century Paris is obviously growing daily more convinced that it will be trousers. There will be the usual brief but hectic outcry, the great dress authorities maintain, just as there was in the case of the shingle. But the revolution is bound to come; and to be accepted as were our shorn locks.