COPIES WILL BE MADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 16

COPIES WILL BE MADE

THE QUEEN'S WARDROBE

With the arrival of the Queen in Canada, fashion experts of the Dominion and of the United States will be busy with notebook and pencil copying whatever she is wearing when she appears in public, states an exchange. In a few short weeks cheap editions of her ensembles will be on sale at most of the retail shops, so quickly does the mass-production trade work. ■ To know a month or so in advance what she will wear would be worth many thousands of dollars to the trade, but the secret is well guarded. After formal evening functions, official descriptions of what she has worn are issued by one of the Queen's private secretaries! Once these are issued the great showmen of the fashion world go to work feverishly, designing, roughing out sketches, and working them in all types of materials, and trying out accessories to go with them. Descriptions of the frocks which the Queen wore in Paris were cabled to Bond Street and Fifth Avenue. It is. said that no wardrobe ever taken out of England by a British Queen has possessed such fashion interest as on the present occasion. Paris remains the classic source of women's fashions, but there are some sorts.of women's wear which lie within the English genius— sports clothes, outdoor clothes, top .coats, and the more important formal wear. It is in the formal wear that the Queen occupies a place all her own.