PRETTY FROCKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 4

PRETTY FROCKS

GIRLS IN DIGGER SHOW WEAR DAINTY MODES GAY COLOUR PARADE With a whirl of floating draperies of rainbow hues the girls of “Pat Hanna’s Diggers’’ gave their firstni audience a “Hearty Welcome’’ in their opening chorus on Saturday night. Pastel shades of georgette, ranging from ivory and primrose to deep coral, with palest pink and blue and eau de nil, fashioned their petal - pointed frocks, which quickly gave way to a succession of smart and colourful costumes, ail making background for the singing numbers and setting off the charms of the dainty lasses. The six bullet girls appeared in many j garbs, from a smart ‘“bandsman” uniform of abbreviated black skirt and fitting coatee with silver bandings, and a Latin Quarter outfit of purple satin trousers and lemon smocks, topped with floppy black velvet berets, to the daintiest of vari-coloured silken lace frocks with bodices of gleaming tissue. Even in their quaint George 111 period gowns of dull blue sprigged j taffeta they looked adorable, while the high-waisted, ankle-length white chiffon ballet dresses, daintily ruffled I round the low decolletage, and reminis- ! cent of Pavlova’s “Chopiniana,” were i altogether charming in their simplicity, j IN DUCHESS BLUE SATIN Miss Adele Taylor, the “Diggers’ j Soprano,” made her first appearance in a pretty frock of duchess blue satin ! allied with ecru not, which alternated ; ; with the satin in forming this frilled ! skirt. Later, she wore an apricot i cliarmeuso frock, whose petalled skirt j opened over tiers of mac ram e lace, which also formed the deep yoke. For her “Rose Marie” number she was frocked in dove grey georgette, re- ; lieved with the now traditional blue ! headband.

Another charming performer, Miss Iza Crossley, made several appearances, the first in a slender aknond green ninon frock, heavily beaded in crystal with motifs of paillettes in green tonings, and completed with a bouffant bow of shot tall'eta at the waistline. Then there was a full-skirted frock of mimosa yellow georgette, with ostrich feather trimming of burnt orange and looped ribbons of the same shade. Her black frock of cobwebby lace and georgette was very effective. In this last she was one of the “Harmony Four,” all clad in black, Miss Taylor choosing taffeta hemmed and swathed with, shrimp pink, Miss Jessie Meadows a rhinestone-studded satin, and Miss Hilda Meadows a draped frock of crepe elise. The Meadows sisters were later seen as a duo, both wearing slimfitting frocks whose only adornment was a succesion of narrow frills, one expressed in apple green and one in peachy-pink. Little Mickey Phillips made brief appearances, once as “Miss Hook of Holland,” when shf» displayed those many-hued “pettis” of which she sings, and again in a shimmering frock of j cornflower blue strewn with tiny rose- j buds.