WORLDWIDE STYLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1939, Page 8

WORLDWIDE STYLE

SET BY SHIRLEY TEMPLE. Shirley Temple, whose frocks rule the style for thousands of young ladies all over the world, has two wardrobes. One is her “movie” garment array and the other is her private life collection of costumes.

“Mother always chooses my clothes,” says Shirley, “and I just put on what she buys.” During her recent vacation trip the wardrobe included: A navy silk pleated skirt frock, topped by a tiny bolero which was embroidered with “little lapleated al the way around, which gives dies in white.” The bolero is hand embroidered. A dark green pleated skirt dress with bright-coloured smocking on the bodice. This dress, like many others, has a dainty lingerie collar. A pale blue frock with a deep square lingerie yoke edged with handdrawn crochet work. A blue tweed coat, buttoning down the front doublebreasted fashion with the revers and cuffs in navy-and-white striped fabric. Several non-crushable shantung linen dresses. And for hats, which Shirley called “beanies,” little calots which she pushes far back on her head. Her movie wardrobe, on the other hand, offers an array of new chic and charm. .Colour is the keynote of Shirley’s dresses. The shades range through her favourite of blues and yellows to a delicious apple-green, gay reds, and multi-coloured stripes. Nearly every one of the dresses have additional interest in touches of hand embroidery like the cross-stitching found on the jumper top of a gen-darme-blue silk linen frock. The embroidery is a stylised version of little Christmas trees done in red on the collar of the white linen guimpe as well as on the blue jumper. “Flip-flap” is the name Shirley has given her favourite dress in this wardrobe, which is made of navy and white striped silk with each contrasting stripe printed in rows of tiny, multicoloured flowers. The skirt is knifepleated all the way around, which gives it plenty of swing, and there is a dainty guimpe of white organdie trimmed with real lace.