CURVES TO GO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

CURVES TO GO.

There will be an alternative silhouette next season for those women who see no attraction in tho feminine curves which most of the designers are trying to accentuate. This is the geometrical line inspired by planes, squares and cones. Opinion is sharply divided on its charm, but at any rate it is sensational. Long coats have their shoulders built out over a stiff padding, which resembles square boxes with pockets and lapels to match. Tho square padding is occasionally placed across the shoulders at the back, but this, unfortunately, not only removes any semblance to the human form, but gives the mannequin rather a hunchback appearance. Florid rolls of materials trim afternoon frocks, and a novel trimming at the shoulder is a series of motifs placed sido by side, which oddly resembles the cones from which little boys eat icecream. Cuffs and trimmings made like cogwheels give a surprising effect to sports coats, and, to be consistent, the designer has made tlic crowns of most of liis hats and berets in the form of a perfect square. At the other extreme there is an outbreak of quilting to be seen in the collections, which gives some of the clothes the appearance of having been uplwlstered. One figured jacket actually has tiny silk buttons centred evenly over its quilted surface like tho back of a Victorian armchair —an impression which is completed by the padded shoulders.