NOVELTY IN DRESS.
VISITORS CASP AT GOWNS. London, April 12. Women's novelties at the Islington Exhibition include white kid trimmings to black gowns instead of braid; waistcoats made entirely of kid, which are hand-painted or embroidered in Oriental colors; and embroidered veils, described as very coquettish, the bottoms of which resemble an old-fashioned stock, and which are fastened with a ribbon bow, and released from above when the wearer is drinking tea. The exhibition justifies the promise of bizarre specialities. Mannequins of all types, sizes, and ages are employed , to show off the dresses'. A startlins bareback gown, held up by strings of diamonds, ending in a long fish-train, made the visitors gasp. An earlier cable stilted that 300 firms would exhibit at the show, which was intended as an answer to the reproach that British fabrics were deficient in varietyTwo" hundred mannequins would parade. showing the latest London, Bradford, and Manchester specialities. Fifty thousand buyers were expected.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1920, Page 6
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158NOVELTY IN DRESS. Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1920, Page 6
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