THE MODE REVIEWED

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 4

THE MODE REVIEWED

Lady Chaytor Talks About Clothes Walking briskly on to the stage clad in her leather flying kit, Lady Chaytor yesterday afternoon entertained a large audience at the Concert Chamber with, a talk on clothes. Lady Charter, who is sponsored by Kirkcaldie and Stains, Limited, wore some charming frocks and illustrated her talk with the aid of the mannequins of Kirkcaldie and Stains. The stage had been’draped in curtains of dull gold and blue, forming a gay background for the frocks. Taking off her flying suit of brown leather fastened with zip fasteners, she showed a lunch ensemble of parrot green wool which was worn with a matching hat. “Imagine,” she said, “that I have just flown from Loudon and am now ready for lunch in Paris. Individuality of dress, she continued, was very dear to the hearts of fashionloving women. Some women had an inborn intuition on how to dress, but the majority had to learn. The main topic for women seemed to be “How to dress.” All through the ages, she said, famous beauties had bad their own individuality of dress. “It is so necessary,” Lady Chaytor said, “to put your own individuality into a frock. If ever there was a wonderful example of individuality in dress it was Queen Mary, who refuses to wear things that do not suit her own particular personality. At the Courts this year her Majesty asked that all frocks be made of British material.” London was going to become one of the greatest centres of fashions, said Lady Chaytor. It would never be the first, because Paris was the greatest fashion centre at present. Lady Chaytor herself went to the Paris salons to see how they got their designs and their fashions. Famous designers, such as Patou and Chanel, decided coming fashions and then returned to their salons and designed frocks, all revealing the latest modes, but bearing the stamp of individuality. Jllany of the famous R.A.’s at Honflstysnd artists from the Paris Salon designed the materials that all the women wore today. According to Lady Chaytor, morning wear for spring is to be definitely tailored; jacket suits, and the light tweed coat. Stripes must be worn diagonally, the check must be minute, and the whole outfit must be worn with ease. Donning a pair of dinner pyjamas of British uncrushable silk, Lady Chaytor told the following little episode about the pyjamas worn during her flight:-— She had called on the British Consul at Sofia, while wearing her flying suit, and when in the course of conversation he had said, “But must you wear trousers?” had suggested that be was book-minded while she was air-minded. But the point of the tale lay in the fact that when he later asked her to dinner to meet tho Turkish Consul, she had nothing to wear to dinner but pyjamas! “So I went to lunch instead,” concluded Lady Chaytor,gaily. Both Lady ‘ Chaytor and the mannequins walked through the audience and displayed their frocks, Lady Chaytor talking and laughing in her breezy way with a number of people. During the interval Miss Joan Beere interpreted delightfully “The Freshness of Spring.” She wore a dance frock of misty white tulle and carried a spray of pink cherry blossom. The two frocks to be worn by Cinderella and Prince Charming at the Mayor’s Ball' this week were also shown. Tho whole of the proceeds of the afternoon dress talk are to be given to the Mayor's relief fund. Lady Chaytor also wore an evening frock of pale blue pique with the neck band bordered in chrysanthemum petals, a lemon-coloured dinner frock made of New Zealand wool lace, a brown lace evening frock with epaulette, sleeves and tight skirt flaring from the knees, a quaint frock of deep sage-green with detachable cape sleeve, and a wonderfully cut black niarbeaiu frock with feather boa sleeves.