UNPROCURABLE MATERIALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 8

UNPROCURABLE MATERIALS

ATTRACTIVE SUBSTITUTES.

Quite a number of previously popular dress materials are now unprocurable, so substitutes have had to be found, and fashion, ever resourceful, has provided substitutes which are often lovelier than the original, writes a London fashion correspondent.

This is true particularly of bunting, the new manufactured linen which is less easily crushed and more able to stand up to hard wear than the most carefully prepared genuine linen. Another substitute for this much used fabric is the wool linen, which is almost like a knobbly canvas, but very fine and soft.

Silk tweed has come into general use in the last few weeks, as shantung and other Chinese silks will not be imported this season.

A new type of jersey has just appeared. It is soft and pliable to the touch, but made up it has rather a heavy appearance, very like knitted lace.

Colours that tone well with uniform shades are I 'in great demand and several very becoming shades have beep evolved, first among them Jacqmars now famous “union blue,” which is a sort of pastel dove blue. Among the new shades I found jade blue much the most interesting. It is like a very vivid dark turquoise . . . .

something between turquoise and peacock.

Another lovely blue is Matita’s “heavenly blue” —really the colour of the skies, not quite so bright as ordinary sky blue. Also from Matita comes “carbon blue.” a rather light purply shade of navy.

The red that Matita calls “1940" is a blending of tomato, scarlet and flame.