LAPPETS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 19

LAPPETS AGAIN

.QUEEN'S BAN LIFTED

Lappets—fashion of bygone times — may yet come back as a result of the influence of the Coronation on modern modes, states a London writer.

Some of the younger peeresses will see lappets for the first time when they select their Coronation robes. By order of the Earl Marshal the sleeves of their kirtles must have five lappets (that is, litlte flaps), varying in length, the outer one three inches, the inner one one inch, each edged with miniver.

Queen Elizabeth will be particularly interested in the revival of the lappets

at the Coronation of King George VI and herself.

Worn in another way—as a headdress —lappets were banned in 1838 at the Coronation of Queen Victoria. This favourite fashion of their day was not permissible. Court dressfor the Coronation had to be "without feathers, lappets or trains."

The wearing of the lapriet was so popular that Queen Victoria permitted it at her Courts. Ladies curtsied to her with little pieces of lace draped across the front of their heads and falling over the ears on either side.

Only three years ago Queen Mary decided that lappets were obsolete. She had the announcement "lace lappets may be worn" removed from the dress regulations ior the Courts.