BEWILDERING FABRICS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 13

BEWILDERING FABRICS

STRANGE DINNER OUTFIT

We arc offered a bewildering number of evening styles this season (states a fashion correspondent of the "Daily Mail"). We may have checks, plaids, stripes, and floral designs; we may wear eire chiffon or lacquered satin and look as if we had recently tumbled into a pool of water; we can have lace, wool, wool-and-silk, cotton, or linen. Or we can. try an alliance of materialsput a neat little linen jacket over a satin frock, and feel extremely smart. One Paris houso presented a fullskirted frock with a funny little fitting jacket and a prim silk-covered hat with a brim bent down over the forehead. It was actually an informal dinner outfit—but it looked extraordinarily like a Victorian riding habit. MARBLE STRIPES. A white matelasse skirt with a cotton lace top and a black matelasse jacket was another unusual ensemble shown somewhere else. Stripes are as popular this season as they were in the autumn, although, naturally, they appear in a different guise in each house. Victor Stiebel, the London designer, has a red, blue, and grey striped chiffon which is reminiscent of a boy's marble. It is the kind of design which suits his fitted, moulded line —a line which outlines the figure almost to the knees in most cases and stresses the simplicity of the dress. Other materials here are a spongy, ripply crepe and a silk with an odd design, like a chess pattern of pink, red, and blue squares set diamondwise, each square being ruled across with fine black lines. Lacquered satins are being pressed into service not only.for frocks but for short jackets worn over linen gowns, just as linen coatees are worn with satin ones. It is a curious thing that this alliance of eire and linen or cotton should appeal so much to dressmakers, but nearly all of them are featuring it. Idare. showed a white canvas evening gown worn with a black eire coatj and extraordinarily effective it looked. She used ciro satin, too, in a shade of navy for another frock with a matching coat, adding a luxurious collar of fnr dyed to match.