ROYAL GARDEN PARTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 15

ROYAL GARDEN PARTIES

TAILORED CHIFFON SUITS

' There is an individual style in English frocking, states a London writer. It may not be considered as smart as the American. Smartness in England is not a virtue; in America it is. The Royal garden parties will see this individuality strongly accentuated. For debuntantes, the dresses worn will be fluffy in white or pastel shades. The most popular shade will be pearl grey ; this colour had already been decided upon for this summer before the death of King George. Young women presented on their marriage outnumber debutantes each year; for these the tailored suit is to be worn. "A tailored suit at a garden party! Who ever heard of such a thing!" I can hear you exclaim.

But the dress designers can upset any convention, and this is what they have decided on for July 21 and 22. The decision was made in Paris by English and.Parisian designers, over the Easter weekend, and so anxious was one West End firm of Court dressmakers to get to work that sketches made in Paris were rushed t% London by aeroplane. Though the decree is for tailored suits, get out of your head at once any idea of tweeds. It Is only the style that Is to be tailored. The suits will be made of chiffon, organdie, satin, velvet, or even real lace over satin, but they will be cut as simply as possible, on tailored lines. In length, they will be two inches shorter than last year—about eleven inches from the ground. Neat "V" necklines will be popular, and broad lapels will be much favoured.

The freakish hat—the latest has the severest of bandeaux —will not be so much seen as big shady summer straws, such as leghorns, panama, plain straws, and baliburnte. Very little jewellery will be worn.

Milliners, dressmakers, shoemakers, glovers, and the various experts who produce accessories are all delighted at the prospect of a busy, gay London season. They make nO secret of the fact that they will benefit greatly by the Royal garden parties.

Mothers of debutantes look forward excitedly to better times than they had dreamed of for their daughters for debutantes have the prospect of dances every night from April 22 till the end of July.

After that, London will be deader than the coldest mutton.

Some of the new evening shoes made their first appearance recently in London—heelless and jewelled, states an exchange. In fact, they were not so much like shoes as primitive sandals. Their wearers took care to show them, since they were a proof positive of lovely feet.