IMPISH FROCKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 21

IMPISH FROCKS

SUITING EVERY MOOD “UNDERSTANDING” MILLINERS Bo you understand the psychology of a hat or a frock? This question presents a new problem to the well-dressed woman, for the coming* season’s fashions are built on a basis of “mental understanding.” Frocks can be impish, or 'frivolous, or serious—but they must be worn on the right occasion and in the right mood. Buyipg new clothes is not the pleasant, simple thing it used to be before one heard about “clothes psychology.” Now it appears that even a jumpersuit can be as wayward and temperamental as women like you to believe that they themselves are. Plaid chiffon is one of the novelties of the new season, and apparently most adaptable to one’s moods. At a recent London dress show a mannequin appeared in a series of six different gowns of plaided and checked chiffon. Each gown was given a mood instead of a name. _Thus: Nonchalant, Impish, Revolutionary, Bon’t-care-if-I-do, Going-to-be-good, and Teasing. The mannequin registered a suitable expression in each case, which helped, of course. Now, when we go to buy a dress we shall be asked: “Bo you want a serious or a frivolous one, modom ’ They say in Paris that your milliner must “understand” you before she makes hats for you, and as she cannot therefore “hat” a perfect stranger, the time may come when calling upon the milliner and taking her out to tea precedes the already complicated business of hat buying.