PREHISTORIC FROCKS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 123, 27 May 1922, Page 16

PREHISTORIC FROCKS

■Wearing a dress copied from a rockdrawing found in Altamira, SpaiD, Lady Warrenden recently appeared at a pageant of dress in London, and the most remarkable thing about this action was that it might have come from a fashionable modist of to-day, so near to present-day fashion did- it-seem, according to the London Daily Graphic.

Lady Warrenden's frock was estimated to represent fashion existent any time between 20,000 and 200,000 years ago,. One young lady wore a Spanish dancing frock believed to be' a replica of one worn at least 200,000 B.C. Instead of painting her arms and o'nestj 6he wore brown tights under a little skirt of buff-coloured cloth, covered with real plumage^ and ,feather anklets to matoh. ;

The Daily Graphic describes the attire professing to icopy that worn by Queen Boadicea (whose statue stands on Westminster Bridge, close to the Houses of Parliament). This embraced a straight, full tunic, in royal blue woven cloth, over a pleated tartan 6kirt, similar in character to those colours still worn by the Highlanders. Round the tunic were bands of parti-coloured embroidery, while a graceful wrap of dark gray cloth was flung over the shoulders and fastened with a huge circular brooch.

A Druid priestess was attired in long white woven cloth, with a gold girdle, the mantle being attached to the shoulder by a large gold ring. The priestess carried a gold scytho with which to cut the mistletoe, and wore a mistletoe wreath in her hair. -