High Fashion Scene For First Day Of Carnival

Press, Volume C, Issue 29434, 9 February 1961, Page 2

High Fashion Scene For First Day Of Carnival

The first day of the Inter-Dominion Championships Carnival, held yesterday at Addington, introduced an Australian, American, and New Zealand high fashion scene which will set the tone for women racegoers during the next two weeks.

It was brought out by beautiful hats and dress fabrics, undertoned with simple, elegant styles of suits, frocks, and ensembles.

Hats were in a galaxy of styles. The pouff was seen; the high, softly draped felt; the head-hugger with swathes of tulle and flowers; the floppy garbo; the smart rose-trimmed straw. All were complemented by lovely fabrics in clothes—brocades, silks, satins, cottons, laces, floating chiffons. An unusual example of a pouff hat was a swathe of white tulle piled high over a head hugging shape of blue, and caught occasionally with big blue flowers. It was worn with a cotton suit in blue and white tonings. The garbo style was seen at

its most feminine in a soft navy silk worn with a matching sheath cotton frock of navy, with inset panels of lace across the front.

Ivory Popular One of the most striking hats was a, very high white felt folded and draped from a swathe of heavy white velvet framing the wearer's head. It was trimmed in front with a floating white feather, and worn with a blue and white embroidered brocade coat which was piped with apple green. Accessories were ivory. Ivory was a colour much in evidence.

One hat was a high and wide swathe of satin, covered with matching dotted tulle, and trimmed on the front of the crown with a tangerine rose. The wearer had chosen a willow green ensemble of heavy cotton, of which a high fashion pointer was buttoned fly-away cuffs just above the elbow. The outfit was completed with white accessories.

A smart junior navy “’tween season’s” suit was topped by a soft face framing hat of navy and white straw, trimmed round the crown with a navy grosgrain band. Many patrons had chosen

appropriate lace and chiffon for the hot day. A white lace sheath frock was worn with a high white pillbox hat, covered with a single layer of net and trimmed with a white rose in front.

The wife of the president of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club (Mrs J. K. Davidson) wore a navy linen suit piped with white, and teamed with a navy and white spotted middy blouse. With it, she wore a white softly-draped felt hat and white gloves. The wife of the vice-presi-dent of the club (Mrs R. W. Saunders) chose a suit of pure silk in tonings of Windsor grey and white. It featured a wide, pleated collar, and the waist was moulded onto a fitting band. Her hat was a high grey velour with a tiny white brim.

Heavy black cotton was the choice of the wife of the honorary treasurer (Mrs C. S. Thomas). Her frock was styled with a long revers to the waistline, long sleeves, and mid-thigh pleats falling from either side of a straight centre panel. She had teamed it with a white hat and accessories, and a shoulder spray of white roses completed the outfit. Club’s Guests Guests of the club in the women’s box included the following:—Mesdames W. M. Ollivier, Russell White (Vic.), J. R. Reeves (NSW.), F. J. Needham (S.A.), A. E. Gibbons (U.S.), Irwin Smith (N.S.W.), W. E. S. Tucker (S.A.), O. Hutchinson, W. E. Desmond, A. L. Matson, R. J. Rolfe, Noel Simpson, S. M. Tyree, R. E. Booker, D. McCormick, R. J. Gray (S.A.), and Miss H. Anderson (W.A.).