THE DAY-TIME CLOTHES.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 19

THE DAY-TIME CLOTHES.

Many of tho day-time clothes are much longer, descending half-way down the calves. Frocks without waistlines are clinging to well below the hips, and frocks with the waistline- "Direetoire" fashion, just under the arms, are coming in, especially for evening frocks. They are very becoming for a slender figure. Belts are mostly wide, and in impressive colours, such as scarlet, amber, and sapphire-blue. Some of the new afternoon frocks arc cut exactly in half, with light coloured crepe de chine tops—or a white satin top—and black skirt, and, to emphasise the division, a little light embroidery, about closely-fitted hips. There is a great vogue for tlie long tunic—usually in satin, and often in while or in pale colours—that comes nearly down to the skirt-hem. Dressier afternoon and dinner frocks are showing all tlie feminine girlishness of tlifi early Victorian period. Corsets, schooling slender figures into the smallest possil.vlo compass, full, ankle-length skirts clinging at the hips, demure decolletces, collared in Jaec. lials In velvet of the "Rennaissanoe peviocl—.ill is allowed, and feminine elegance can be freely displayed.