The Coming Season Will Be One For The Gorgeous In Dress.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 361, 16 February 1937, Page 2

The Coming Season Will Be One For The Gorgeous In Dress.

Just as next season v'ill be conspicuous for the brightness of its day wear, so will it be conspicuous for the glitter of its evening wear—since gold and silver lame, rich brocades, and embroideries carried out in gold and silver, will set the distinctive note. It is to be a season for the gorgeous in dress. Gold lames and gold brocades and gold embroideries will make gold the most prominent of the evening colours, but this is only a phase ot the fashion. Even materials of other colours will be brightened with touches of it —elaborately worked flovfers and sprays and designs, golden sashes and collars, and girdles and buttons. The golden brightness, will not be confined to frocks as a whole, for the tunic and jacket fashions persist, and plain skirts will be matched with glittering tunics and jackets and capes. An idea of the styles for the new season's evening dresses, and of the glitter which characterises them, is given by a Paris fashion correspondent. who writes: "A recognised evening dress, not skirt and blouse, is put with a jacket of sequins in black or white or any colour. Again, the jacket may be in rich brocade, as in Molyneux’s brocaded taffeta with a lovely tulip design In mauve and pink.

Brilliantly Lovely Tunics.

“The bolero also was stressed by Patou, who made it for the morning and the evening, in cloth, in Eilk, in velvet. . . . We had tunics last season, and we have them again. The new tunic is Oriental—Persian, to be nearer the truth. It is something magnificent for the evening, since it is made In gorgeous lames, gold, silver, coloured silks threaded with gold and silver, and afl sorts of brocadet'. Closed to the throat, it falls from the waist to a very and stiff hemline over a long, slim skirt. Jet and Cellophane,

“The passion for gold and silver, and glitter, ft; marked. All black materials glitter with jet or cellophane, and every silk is powdered with gold or silver threads. Even in crochet and knitting for the evening clothes—and there is much being worn—gold and silver threads are most used.

“Embroideries are well in the picture. The gold and glitter of gold braids worked to first Emjfire designs marked such collections as. l those of Schiaparelli and Mainbocher. On a black jacket there might be slanting pockets >f gold braid as finely storked as were the pockets on uniformt l of high-grade officers. The exhibition of Gros and his pupils has supplied the details for these embroideries. Everywhere there is a tendency to use embroideries as trimming to plain woollen and silk dreases.”

The coming of the glittering in evening wear will surely be hailed With delight in New Zealand after this season of cottons and linent has passed, for new materials are always welcome after a few months the novelty from the old