FASHION FORECAST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1941, Page 12

FASHION FORECAST

AWHITEWINTER

NEW NOTIONS FOR NIGHT

AND DAY

Winter White . . . two little words Which, hold a lot of importance for fashion's most enthusiastic devotees! Winter white sums up the entire situation where novelty for accessories during the coming season is concerned.

With dark suits and dark dresses, it is the" little touch of white that counts.

black or naivy' arid'white with each sprmg, but now we have "got wise to ; ourselves" and demand the smartness of spring all the: year round. This season will see the initial appearance of winter white. And what a grand fashion it is. " Snowy accessories— sweater-shirts, turbans, clips, and necklaces—will giye dynamic charm to your black winter. suit, and with the new season's brown fashions do not forget the ■ dash and sparkle of white accessories by way of a white bowler hat .worn with a flip brown band and veil, or white jewellery as crisp as stalactites. DUCHESS'S WARDROBE. The Duchess of Windsor sponsors white in her own winter wardrobe and has copied the jacket of one of her summer suits in wool for cold-weather .wear. This" jacket is of white wool braided all round the edge with blue binding. It-looks very smart with a navy pleated skirt or with a. scarlet wool dress. Knitted blazers of white are warm and- cosy adjuncts'to winter outfits. One - particularly attractive jacket of this type niade in heavy white boucle wool had'edgings of brown furnishing braid;at the front closing and on the pockets.: Lambswool coats of snowy . white are lovely for winter sports oc- ■■ . casions. :.•'•. '. . - ..■-.'. ■•■.■'.■ •After dark, winter white is out on its own." We find dresses as lovely as a dream made of ■'~; sugarywhite . net and point d'esprit. A streamlined adiyarice model of winter white silk jersey has a halter line for the decollete bodice. The- skirt is all white but £ or a band set in around the hips of Vivid scarlet. Completing the costume is a matching white triangular \ ' jshawl. , ; _": ; " ;. ■. ..7. '' . '.' ; " '.

-M.R.