OSPREY FOR EVENING

Evening Star, Issue 21518, 16 September 1933, Page 21

OSPREY FOR EVENING

“ MRS ROBINSON CRUSOE " Feathers of the most exotic kind, including bird of paradise plumes and ospreys worth hundreds of pounds, are being used' for trimming some of the elaborate evening gowns in the Paris collections (states the ‘Daily Mail’). The decolletago of one dress was fringed with bird of paradise plumes nearly a foot in length, and another model had two sprays of these fragile feathers meeting high above one shoulder, so that on that side the lino resembled the costume of a Cambodian dancer. Ospreys are used with incredible lavishness in one or two houses, in spite of the fact that the materials of the gowns they decorate are the oldfashioned silks. FEATHER PUFF SLEEVES. On the tube skirt of one black gown these feathers were scattered so thick); that they actually bid tho material from hem to knees. Another mannequin appeared waving an entire muff of osprey, and her frock had large puff sleeves of them. These displays are’ succeeding in their purpose, which is to impress the foreign buvers. and they are interesting as an indication of the way in which dressmakers hope to lead women’s tasteonce more towards the luxury fashions of thirty years > ago Queer trimmings this season include monkey fur. This is not new. but it has not been used before on evening gowns. It is not easy to describe the appearance of a dress which drips from waist to hem with strands of this lank, blac*--fur, but an American woman buyer at a dress show summed up in a sentence the impression of most of tbe_ spectators when a mannequin in wearing a coat entirely veiled in it, “Gee,” she said, “Mrs Robinson Crusoe.”