QUEEN MARY AND HER CLOTHES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 8

QUEEN MARY AND HER CLOTHES

INDIVIDUAL AND ROYAL STYLE. A queen who realises the possible effect of her own clothes on public taste has three courses open to her. She may dress dully, in which case many people will approve, and more will criticise, and she will have no set fashions whatever. Or she may, like Queen Mary, evolve a highly individual and very royal style which suits her perfectly,- and stick to it: in which case, though many will admire her, few will copy her. This Queen Mary has done in the past few months, and anyone who doubts that a change in her style of dressing could be of much interest to the public should sit through a newsreel some evening. A buzz of comment greets her gay new hat, her neat tailleur, the billowing crinoline skirts of her evening gown. Her new way of doing her hair is commented upon—always favourably. "She isn’t wearing a fringe any more—and you don’t see her in so much fox fur . . . that’s a good hat—doesn’t hide her face as they used to do.” And always you hear someone whisper; “How much prettier she is!” The fact is that the Queen is an extremely pretty woman who does not always photograph well. You may be sure that however charming she looks on the front page, she is looking a great deal lovelier in real life. She has a social charm that is nothing short of genius, and it is only recently that we have realised fully how great an asset in other lands that particular genius is.