FASHION NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 14

FASHION NOTES FROM LONDON

(Specially Writtcn<for "The Post.") LONDON, 19th October. The winter season scums to have de.soencd on us with a crash now tiiat we have put back the'clocks, ami with Uie slio.'tcned days bridge clubs are enjoying an ever-increasing popularity. The motor show drew everyone buck to town and packed the hotels with provincial and overseas visitors, so that the theatres have been experiencing a very welcome boom, with once more the joyful notices of "House Full" appearing outside some of the most attractive shows. Clothes at the motor show are always interesting from a sports' point of view, and this season the cars are so lovely they just .shriek luxury at the visitor. Gone are the days of the goggle-hidden, untidy woman motorist. The ownerdriver of to-day can emerge from a hun-dred-mile run dressed as smartly as if attending a luncheon in town. Some of tho cars seem to suggest tho right clothes'. As, for instance,-a gorgeous white- car with splashes of red about it and. red. leather, upholstery, which simply asked,for the white uniform of the Riviera, complete with a white fox fur and", white antelope shoes. . The car of the show was a deep cornflower blue, lined with grey, and I saw the ideal outfit'standing, just near it. A blue ' morocco leather coat that was lined and faced back with grey, baby lamb, with deep cuffs of the sume: fur. A grey felt hat to match that had a blue and silver, ornament catching back the tiny brim, and grey stockings

and grey buckskin shoes with • silver buckles put the finishing touch. Stepping out of a luxurious grey, Rolls I saw a well-known society beauty in a mulberry and grey tweed coat that was turned back with grey leather and had deep leather cuffs. A little velour helmet in the mulberry shade and grey lizard shoes carried put the latest luxurious idea of forming an ensemblo with one's car. Some women, it is true, do go to the show ou business bent, but with such marvellous cars it is , difficult for a woman with an eye for colour schemes to keep her mind off clothes. . The dressmakers should bo grateful for the continued fine weather, for with the sun shining outside, women simply cannot resist the luxurious coats which formed a large part of every collection shown this season. Velvet and fur, cloth and fur, and many handsome fancy materials massed with fur are as fascinating as they are costly. At a show of French dresses at the Green Park Hotel this morning there was an audible gasp as a mannequin glided in with a black suede cloth coat that had-three, whole skins of blue fox! These formed the. high collar, close round the throat and down one revers, where if met the head of another fox and trailed round the back. A beautiful ensemble had a coat of beige cloth with collar, facings, deepshaped hem, and deep cuffs of finest beige baby lamb to match. This was further decorated all round the hem and cuffs with embroidery of steel studs like nail, heads. This form of trimming is now and exceedingly smart, and I saw it successfully used in gold nails on a beige coatfroek and masses of steel nails on a navy blue cloth and satin frock. The coat frock and onc-rjiece dress are very popular this season, and by spring time I believe they will take the place of the cardigan suit, which has become a trifle overdone for street wear. At this same show was a. lovely frock in navy that opened with long roll turnbacks to the hem, faced with a lighter blue and decorated ■ with dark blue strappings. This revealed an underslip of the same lighter blue with a tinyrow of steel buttons from the neck to the waist, and a dark blue belt encircled a low waist line. As I was leaving the hotel I mot a charming woman entering. She was wearing a black cloth I coatfroek that had the same long I turned-back revers from, neck to hem, I faced with a lovely thick satin in pinky vellum shade. A huge, black

fox fur was round her shoulders, and a liny bonnet lint hart an utuler-brim of the same vellum satin, with tho narrow:st twist round the crown. Season after season there is the same talk about waist lines, and now some of the leading creators arc showing models with no definite lino at all, not uven tlie shadow of a belt. If you can wear the normal line it is youthful and charming, and many lovojy models tire to be seen with short clinging bodices and full skirts. But one always hears the same remark: "Ah, yes! Lovely for a young girl!" So if you have any doubts of your figure and are sure you are no longer "jeune fille," choose something less striking. You have probably noticed that the film stars have mado this stylo their own for the last three years, and the all-revealing screen will probably have shown you how necessary a really youthful figure is. —RUTH SIBLEY.