Coronation Clothes

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

Coronation Clothes

Accessories Play An Important Role T?ED, white and blue colouring's are being introduced in hundreds of different ways into dresses, hats —and shoes —for everyday wear. Bold heraldic lions are being sold for fastening on the lapels of tailored costumes. Tiny Union Jacks, red, white and blue scarves, patriotic earrings, buttons and wrist-watch straps are other coronation emblems which can be worn during the festivities and then easily removed. Elaborate creations into which red, white and blue are irremovably entwined are little favoured by discerning women. Frocks, coats and hats merely trimmed with the three colours are preferred for indiscriminate patriotism will badly date a wardrobe. One woman is having red, white and blue buttons on a dark blue silk “Coronation” blouse with an eton collar piped yitb red. This she will wear on Coronation Day with a light grey costume with a scarlet heraldic lion on one lapel. She is also buying one of the new powder puffs tinted red, white and blue and held in a handkerchief printed with a map of the Empire. For mailing to a friend overseas who

has not been able to come to England for the Coronation, she has bought a most amusing souvenir of Loudon. It is a chiffon handkerchief-map. All the most important streets >n London —from St. Paul’s Cathedral in the east to past Hyde Park in the westarc marked on the map. which takes in the whole of Mayfair and tiie coronation route. Witty comments describe each important landmark. The printing ou the handkerchief 1b done iu black, which looks most effective against the apricot colour of the one she has chosen.