Wear Clothes Better

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 353, 14 May 1928, Page 5

Wear Clothes Better

The Lure of the East Makes Itself Felt

One talks so much about clothes, spends so much time and money on them, treats them so seriously, that really one ought to wear them better.

The slim girl is safe. She has never looked more attractive than she does to-day,. if she has any taste and a little money. But the mature woman, young still but matronly! That is where the trouble comes in. She cannot disguise the fuller lines, and if she shows them, the little dress won’t suit her. But there is hope for her, thank goodness! There are the draped dresses falling in graceful folds, which hide contours apt to be too rondelette. Even side panels and flounces help, and as for the new “spiral” movement—why, it’s a blessing for some women. One thing I have heard whispered is that the couturiers have all gone East, for their inspirations. They are rsing Eastern colours, and Eastern designs. Not that the Oriental fashions will completely fill the picture. No, the Paris couturiers have an innate sense of the fitness of things. They know just where and how to bring East and West together. And we shall presently see some perfectly charming frocks and costumes, designed by them.

Our business will be to learn how to wear them. In the meantime, I should advise you, if it is necessary, and you want to wear the new dresses well, to begin a course of dieting. Leave off pastries, too much butter, highly-flavoured food—in fact, eat as little as possible—just enough to keep well and strong. You must be slim at any cost. Brown will be much in view this season. Green and blue, grey and beige, are the newest colours. Eastern reds, yellows, and a knowing touch of black here and there, will go to swell the jewel-like richness which will make a part of the new dresses. Trimmings are to be queer. It is the business of trimmings to be so, either that, or quaint—never commonplace. For evening wear, beaded crepe dresses look better than any. Geranium and orchid velvets are also successful, but some of us are beginning to loathe the sight of silver tissue. It is one of the most over-rated materials ever known. It neither drapes well, nor hangs well. It is hard in appearance, if not in texture.