Novel Fashions

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 140, 10 March 1938, Page 5

Novel Fashions

Madame Recaniier To Live Again “Doniiuiou" Special Service —By Air Mail. London, February 18. A NOVEL item of the Fashion Display at the British Industries Fair, which opens next week, and which the Queen will visit, is to lie a tableau representing the famous portrait in the Louvre of Madame Recaniier, acknowledged leader of Paris and London fashions over one hundred years ago. The portrait shows Madame Recamier in her twenty-third year, reclining on a couch and wearing a full-cut evening gown of classical design. A London girl, Miss Iris Leslie, has been chosen to represent Madame Racaniier iu this tableau, and her gown is being made by the students of the Royal College of Art, South Kensington. After the illuminated spectacle of tlie picture, Miss Leslie will walk slowly round the stage to show off the full beauty of the gown, and two other model's will then follow her, both wearing modern versions of the same classical style.

A feature of this year's fair is the number of women buyers who are coming from all over the world. As many as 19 countries will be represented by women as well as by men, including Italy. France, Germany. Holland, Poland and Rumania, and women are on their way to London and Birmingham from Australia, Canada. New Zealand. South Africa and the Straits Settlements.

They are specially interested in British textiles, china and leather goods, and in these sections they will find women exhibitors to greet them, for women now established as manufacturers will be showing fancy goods, toys and games, stationery, leather goods and pottery.