AFTERNOON DRESSES ARE DISTINCT FROM MORNING CLOTHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 922, 15 March 1930, Page 21

AFTERNOON DRESSES ARE DISTINCT FROM MORNING CLOTHES

Afternoon dresses are quite distinct from morning clothes: they are made of velvet, plain and printed, crepe satin also, plain, brocaded and interwoven with gold and silver threads, moire and silk faille. Delong’s colours are clear and strong —black, black and white, brown, green, slate gray, grenadine red, gray with mauve lights in it, yellow, blue and a combination of two or more colours in one dress. The printed velvets are rich in colour and fairly bold in design, those for the afternoon being smaller than those for evening dresses. All afternoon .dresses have long sleeves, and many have trimmings on the front of the bodice and down the back of the skirt, frills and crossway bands. Aloire coats are worn over chiffon dresses, elaborately frilled and draped, yet simple in line. Fur collars—astrakhan or fox—are high. The skirts dip slightly behind. Every dress, despite the simplicity of outline, has complicated insets, frillings, fan-shaped pleats and panels. A dress of one material and a coat of a second make a usual ensemble.