FASHIONS AT WORLD'S FAIR

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20950, 1 November 1939, Page 3

FASHIONS AT WORLD'S FAIR

“Frenchwomen are all so chic,” was once a catch phrase, but today it is the “smartness of America” that has become the lodestar of fashion, The Royal visit has increased American consciousness in all our minds, so let us analyse fairly the “girl from New York,” and find the inspiration of her smartness. First, she realises that she is the picture and her outside clothes only the frame. She grooms herself like a racehorse. The biggest part of her tell a man's income by his wife’s make ” was a evnical remark I heard recently to New York neam q*ite recenuy m iNew xor*. Her Sports Clothes Are Trim Picture right; then the frame is chosen. Simplicity of line with the prevailing mode and depth of colour that throws up the beauty of the picture is the guiding index. Miss America does not wear large pattemed prints in the street—she reserves them for the country club or the home. Cottons in exotic purples, blues and hibiscus red make her sunshine play frocks. Her slacks and sports clothes are trim. Grey, sail red, sea green follow white in the

more favoured colour order, She dresses less than we do in the evening. Short chiffon or lace dresses are seen at the best house parties and little dinner gowns go to the theatre and midnight suppers on the roof gardens in New York, Blotting-paper pink and sea green are good night-light colours. Yes, America scores on her frocks, her fit, her femininity, but she has much to learn about wool and good leather, . _ _ _ . „ ... - are proudly duptayed as British made,” and even there her prediAction for loud tweeds and variation clasgic patternings are not in keeping with her standard of taste in other matters. Those clever “nips and slick cutting in which they are so expert in dealing with silk and cotton are not effective when applied to the more sturdy personality of tweed and fine wool suitings. The well-dressed American woman knows it, so if you are crossing the ocean take suits tailored in the best British traditions with you, and you can hold your head as fashionhigh as any of our finely framed and finished American cousins, P.A.A.