LIGHTNING CHANGES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 254, 10 July 1926, Page 17

LIGHTNING CHANGES

TWENTY SECONDS FOR DONNING A NEW DRESS. Busy women of fashion will be able to bring about a drastic revision of their time schedule of dressing if tho new one-fastening eoat .stylo of dress which several Paris houses aro featuring Cbfablishe.’? itself as a vogue. Twenty seconds is the time allotted for the doniiing of the new time-saving dresses. which arc slipped on like a coat and fastened nt the waist with buckle or

button. The saving of time is considerable, for the fashion is capnble of so much variation in fabric, and colour that women aro being advised to have a complete wardrobe of these gowns suitable for all occasions. Tho only serious business of dressing takes places in the morning when the foundation of the quick-change method of dressing is laid in a peach-coloured eropo slip petticoat cut on perfectly straight lines. A plain Kasha tailor-made, fastening

well below the waist-line, leaving the long-tapering front of peach colour revealed, is worn during tho morning. This can be discarded in ton seconds for a more elaborate frock of black satin with a little coloured embroidery for the restaurant luncheon—the adjusting of which takes not more than twenty seconds. An afternoon frock of lace and georgette suitable for dinner succeeds this, the time-table working out at ten and twenty seconds for the undressing and redressing. Even the dance frock of the later hours of tho evening, a “creation” in gleamin’ lace,- makes up more exacting demands on time. In each case the

foundation peach slip shows in varying degrees. Four changes of toilette are accomplished in two minutes less ten seconds, for tho art of the thing lies in. tho cut of tho series of frocks. Each one can be put on without disarranging a. hair of the most immaculately shingled head’

Miss Bunny, who has been the guest of Mrs. Dudley Kettle (Hawke’s Bay), has returned to Lower Hutt.