EDWARDIAN TEA-GOWNS
.Modern London hostesses, including Lady Louis Mountbatten, a pioneer of the short skirt; Lady Alexandra Metcalfe. Lady Knollys and the Duchess of Buccleuch. are favouring the revival of the Edwardian tea-gown, with its padded or puffed shoulders, long cross-over line, fastening on the left hip with a jewel, and sweeping train. Lady Smith-Dorrien is designing these formal and gracious garments in such modern colour combinations as petunia and lime green, raven's-wlng blue and magenta, raspberry red, smoke yellow and cigar brown. Tea-gowns with quilted sleeves like balloons have the sleeves cut out and marked ready for quilting at home. Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, the Duchess of Westminster, and Lady Rntendone are all experienced quilters. When the sleeves are completed, the tea-gown is sent back to a salon, to be made up.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 253, 22 July 1936, Page 4
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132EDWARDIAN TEA-GOWNS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 253, 22 July 1936, Page 4
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