DAME FASHION.
DECREES FOR COMING SEASON. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 13, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 13. The most startling secret in London’s summer fashions, revealed by the Drapery Exhibition, is an attempt to popularise the roll-top stockings, which have liad a most successful vogue in America. The designers declare that many will be worn by fashionable ladies in the summerlime. The designs conclusively prove that the short skirt is remaining. This has caused considerable attention to be devoted to stockings, many of willeli are extraordinary in design. The most novel' one shows coloured flowers, woven in front. Others are known as bracelet stockings on which 18 carat gold tinsel is worked round the ankles in bewildering colour lints, with the object of obtaining as near as possible the natural colour. Prices range up to 90/-. The entire frocklng is of the flimsiest and gaily flowered surfaces. Gauntlet gloves will be embroidered with cornflowers, pansies and poppies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 April 1926, Page 9
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162DAME FASHION. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 April 1926, Page 9
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