THE MIRROR of FASHION

Ladies' Mirror, Volume I, Issue 4, 2 October 1922, Page 17

THE MIRROR of FASHION

THE FRAGILE LOVELINESS OF GAUZY MUSLIN HAS AN ALLURE ALL ITS OWN THIS GOLDEN SPRINGTIME

SPRING among the FROCKS

CyPRING offers us such a bczvilderingly lovely variety of fashions, that it is as i \hard to choose among them as it is to cull a posy of flowers from an overflowing garden, when one may only pick a limited number. The long-zvaisted slim line seems as firm a frock favourite as ever, though the severe straightness has relaxed, giving way to more soft blousing and looping at the waist-line. With almost the sole exception of organdie for future wear, and an occasional taffeta frock, the heavier suiting materials arc soft and clinging, and of course very charming, favouring crepe de chine and. crepe marocdin, the marked absence of pattern being often more than compensated for by the many novel trimmings and hand embroideries that arc in vogue. Cut steel beads trim an entire frock in sparse rows, or mass in quaint design, and queer little drops dangle glinting in the light, while old fashions are revived in eyelet work, on silk, zvool or linen, in contrasting colours. Braiding and hemstitching, lattice zvork insets of self material, and tiny celluloid squares of many vivid colours, taking the place of button rozvs, are all used to give finishing touches to the nezv spring frocks. ~ Handsome girdles of oxidised metal accompany many costumes, slightly restraining the fullness of the short flared coat style, the line of which, zvith its fuller skirt, is in contrast to the majority of spring fashions. Many models of that adaptable garment, the jumper blouse, arc shozvn in crepe dc chine and georgette. They arc elaborately beaded in many cases, and of such undoubted charm and use for so many odd occasions, that one pauses to wonder zvhat zvas worn before jumper blouses were invented.