TWO-CARDIGAN TWINSETS
High Fashion In Knitwear To the foreigner the average Englishwoman is envisaged as a "wearer of tweeds and twinsets.” says a London correspondent. Braemar. the firm which first gave Englishwomen their twinsets way back in the 1930 s recently set out to prove that they need not be the dull, uninteresting garments which the words “twinset” normally conjure up. Suitably styled, they can be worn not only from dawn to dusk, but for evening also. Elegantly simple jumpers teamed with evening skirts in rich satin or brocade make an attractive ensemble which is warm and comfortable.
This season, most cardigans and sweaters in London by-nass the waist, sometimes with a bloused-over look Necklines are mostly rounded and often collarless and eminently suitable for wearing with the fashionable chunky necklaces. Expected to make twinset history is a two-cardigan twinset—short-sleeved, highfastening shirt in lambswool und " edge-to-edge jacket in doubled lambswool. For evening wear a scoopnecked cashmere cardigan has • toft, roll collar and »ny silk grosgrain covered buttons.
Featured for the second time are the Liberty handblocked prints on fine cashmere.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29539, 14 June 1961, Page 2
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