POINTS FROM AUTUMN FASHION PARADE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 16

POINTS FROM AUTUMN FASHION PARADE

Important New Features For Street and Evening Wear

(By

Barbara.)

My sketches this week are gleaned at an important autumn fashion parade in which clothes for every time of day were featured, and the outstanding fashion points emphasised. The parade began with street and morning wear, went on through sports clothes, coats and afternoon wear to cocktail frocks and evening gowns. The most important new features I noticed were:

Handknit sportswear. Checks for morning. Hackberry, a new “berry” shade. Fringed tweed. Slit skirts.

Tunic frocks (often slit). Drawstring necklines. Capes (morning, afternoon and evening). Much be-furred coats. Paillettes for evening and cocktail time. Full skirts for evening. Sleeves—raglan, shirred and bell- • shaped. "Empire” bonnets. “Button-up” the side evening bodices. The ensemble in the top left-hand corner of the page is an example of an “affinity” suit. That is to say it is a frock with, a coat which though it

is not made of the same material is designed expressly to wear with that particular frock. This one is of aquarelle wool with a “butcher-boy” coat of woollen material in the same colour which has an embroidered plaid of beige and brown lines. The soft brown leather belt slots through two slits in the front of the coat, and brown hat, bag, gloves and shoes are worn.

The next frock, an afternoon one, is made of peacock blue dull-flnish crepe. The bodice is gathered in front, the sleeves are raglan and narrow at the wrist and the back is Vionnet’s new "pouch.” It is stitched in pleats for five or six inches below the collar and then hangs in loose folds to the waist. A quilted collar, with a “blackberry” velvet chrysanthemum and a belt made of loops of the material are the finishing touches.

The voluminous sports cape is made of check tweed in black and white and is worn over a suit of flecked tweed. This suit was one of the high-lights of the parade. It consists of a wrapover skirt with fringed hemline, a velveteen over-blouse and a swing jacket with a detachable fringed scarf. A Tyrolean hat completes the ensemble. The most dashing of all the evening frocks is the black poulte-de-soie (in other words a stiff faille), which I have sketched in the centre of the page. The bodice is plain in front and finished at the back with two flat revers. It buttons up the side with covered buttons of the material. The looped bustle, which is gathered at the back of the waistline and extends plain across the front, and tho swinging sash—made of a “roll” of the material and finished with two balls of . brasscoloured metal—are the features of the gown. Two big metal flowers, one silver and one metal, are worn at the neckline in front.

In the left-hand corner at the bottom of the page we see a most exciting tunic frock of steel lame with a steel lame toque to match. Both tunic and underskirt are slit at the side and the unusual full sleeves meet the dropped shoulder-line on the top, but leave the underarm bare. The shirt-waist effect in such a sophisticated material and the buttons up tho side are points of interest.

An unusual and modern frock is shown in the Last illustration. Of “Marina” blue moire, it has a tunic top with winglike fins at the back inspired by Schiaparelli. A draped bib is finished by a huge bunch of dark wine coloured chrysanthemums at the high neckline. •