High Tide of Parades

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 666, 18 May 1929, Page 23

High Tide of Parades

The New Evening Mode

The high tide ot dress parades is now ou m London, and many lovely things are being shown. The evening clothes are wonderful. At a recent parade the evening clothes were ot' two kinds—one consisted ot lovely butterfly dresses in silk muslin or Silk Chiffon, covered with patterns and made fitting as to the bodice and the skirt, floating in tails like a fluttering butterfly or an angel fish at the back.

Some were in black and red, like the admiral butterfly, and others in pastel colours, and all in large filmy patterns, roses and chintz flowers. These filmy materials, flowing from slim bodices and fitted hips into tails and ends, were astonishingly lovelv. and are a new type of period dress. The other distinctive evening tyi • was in heavier material, mostly faille, and had astonishing decorations at the back. Some had bustles made of flat bows; others had huge basques that stood out, and were decorated with jewelling to match that used on the bodice.

This gave them a mediaeval look from the back, but in front the skirts, being shorter than the back, had a coquettish touch of modernity. Others again kept to the draped styles that have been in fashion, and merely accentuated them by strong droops at one side. The colours varied, but the new Capucine reds, which are really shades of nasturtium, were the most startling. This colour was in all kinds of material —silk, tulle, faille, moire, morocain, shiny satin, and a number of other fabrics, of which the softer were the most interesting. It was shown in day dresses, also, but was at its best for evening. Then there was the funny pink in what someone called a flannel shade, a very pale pink with a milky tinge. This colour was shown for day aud evening; it has been sponsored by one of the great French houses, and has been used in woollens, in silks, and in satins; it is at its best in a very shiny satin, which gives a bloom to ! the cheek of the wearer.