London Fashion Notes Specially Written for "Tht Post."

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 19

London Fashion Notes Specially Written for "Tht Post."

LOIsDOA T, August 31. The Royal romance has been the one topic Of conversation in town thia ■week. All the world loves a lover, and in this case Prince George and Princess Marina are both so good to look at and full of spontaneous charm that it is especially pleasing to know that this is a love match, and not just a marriage to unite nations for political purposes. Everyone is hoping for a Royal wedding before Christmas. Thus will the "little season" become a very important one, and already dressmakers and hotel people are preparing for the event. It has been announced that the trousseau will be designed and made in London. As the bride-elect is modern as well as beautiful, her bridal outfit will reflect the best in current fashions. Already I hear of two famous autumn brides who have told their dressmaker they are waiting to see what the Princess Marina will select before deciding on''their own. With her tall, beautifullypioportioned figure and perfect poise Ihe present fashion of• simplicity expressed by exquisite line in beautiful material will be charmingly appropriate. BRIGHT COLOURS. Although we are only just leaving August, the weather has been so mixed that the first tweeds and tailored suits of the coming season have looked singularly appropriate. Some of the new suits are showing the popular fancy for bright colours —complete suits in yellow tweed, with dark accents and accessories—have been seen in town, also at the fashionable Yorkshire race meeting. Here, also were worn several of the new hairy woollen ensembles in coral red, bright postilion green, and a very fashionable dark blue that is nearer sapphire than navy. This is a lovely town colour in which I have already seen several' smart ensembles, and if the material is' not hairy it has little nobbles, or loose threads, on the surface. These woollens are very thin and supple, and one smart girl walking against a shaft of sunlight was completely "X-rayed" through what appeared to be a substantial blue dress, with soft waistband and tabbed collar of matching blue velvet. Never have the small details of dress been so emphasised as they are in the new fashions. As a dressmaker remarked to me —a dress can be made or marred by its fastenings, its belt, ffr its pockets. The way it is embroidered, the originality of collar and cuffs, and the right slope of the shoulders. ' There is one striking fashion: that ox putting outstanding pockets on the hips of very slim skirts. They seem to be asking for pennies to be dropped into them, though no sooner in than out would be the result, for they are shallow and open. They give the waistline an appearance of slimness, and do not in any wa.y thicken the figure. Belts and clips and unusual fastenings are ail important. Belts have indeed reached, a point when they dominate a model. One designer uses wide stiff belts in bright colours on soft dark dresses. These are sometimes of leather, eire satin, stitched taffetas, and velvet. Leather belts are put with soft chiffon and crepe dresses for day and evening wear. Then there is a very wide belt made of taffetas stitched over cords, which 1 have seen as deep as five inches, made with a loop one end, it, is fastened with a large oblong button of composition or wood. Wood is largely used for decorative (ouches; one can have a complete set of wooden "jewellery" and fastenings made to match in any particular wood that is fancied. In glossy mahogany I saw such a set worn with an outfit of grey beige. Grey and brown is one of the fashionable colour combinations exploited in the new models, and the preference for the main part of the outfit to b© light, and such accessories as blouse, scarf, and hat remain dark.

The three-quarter coat in •white or very pale beige, worn over a dark dress, gives a very fresh and up-to-the-minute appearance, and I can recommend this notion when the spring urges you to acquire something fresh. Ifc is Ihr sort of coat which will give endless service because it can be worn through

the.-summer. over thinner dresses, and again, in-the autumn over the first woollen frock. The shape of this coat can be straight from the shoulders, shaped: at ,the -waist, or belted. When belted-with a slight flare at the hem and open-down the front it has the slightly dashing' Cossack look.that is making- a'great appeal this season.

There is a.hint of the. "Naughty Nineties" in some of ,the new fashions, particularly • the hairdressing styles, which some.of the 'mannequins are affecting. Foreheads - are ■ hidden beneath a curly -fringe,'; and: curls ■ swept up the back of the head, ■ giving them a look of Katherine-' .H6pburn in "Little Women." But this, is not only to be seen oni mannequins. . I saw two very modern "young-; things with their' hair done in this fashion,' complete with im-pudent'littlecaps-set a£; a jaunty angle on .the massed -curls.1 A quaint combination of: old and new. ........ RUTH.SIBLEY.