GLITTER AND GLEAM OF EVENING MODES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 5

GLITTER AND GLEAM OF EVENING MODES

CURVED LINES Splendour and glitter and gleam are to be the notes of our new evening dresses. Panels will be emphasised both at the sides and at the back, and it will be a panel season in the autumn. Dong skirts dipping at the back will still remain, but they will give a curved line as they leave the waist, melting into length. And the back of the bodice will be cut very low. These glittering dresses will not have it all their own way, for there is also a note of subdued sumptuqusness being introduced in many of the new materials, which, though they may be enhanced with gleaming embroideries for those who must have, as the cynical dressmakers say, “butter on bacon,” could well stand alone in their rich beauty. Clouded patterns are being shown on velvets and on lames. This is a new effect secured by printing on the wrong side. Other lames are printed all over in various designs, some floral and some in the hold animal, or bird, patterns. This printing is also at the back, and just gleams through in the most intriguing way, making It a puzzle to discover what the design is. Others. ’ again, kr, p to the old idea of printing on the right side, and on these where the pattern is all-over, it is the lame which comes clouded through. There are silk-backed lames and satin-backed lames, with striped and geometric patternings in the lame in colour, and others are made with setting sun patternings which would make wonderful eourt trains or evening wraps.