GLASS FABRICS
A FASHION SENSATION “ Hostesses who wear glass dresses should not throw parties.’’ That is the latest jest in Mayfair, following the adaptation of glass—now past the experimental stage as a fabric —by Schiaparelli in her new season’s collections. To Mrs Harrison Williams, a wealthy American whom the couturiers of Paris now declare to be the “ best-dressed woman in the world,” goes the distinction of having the first glass dress ever sold. The fabric" with which it is made is a definite improvement upon that which made its initial appearance in Paris in August of last year. Mrs Williams’s dress combines two of the newest colours. Encre de chine (Chinese ink), a deep purplish tone, is used as a foundation in taffetas for the rose glass tunic which forms the corsage. The silhouette of this model is less sharply defined than the evening dresses shown earlier in the season, with their ruffles and hoops and “ lampshade ” outline. Glass fabric comes forward again in a little jacket of variegated 'colours, worn over a black evening dress in dull, heavy black crepe, with raised, figured surface. This jacket is held down to a normal waistline by a transparent belt of glass. The audience of fashionable women at Schiaparelli’s London show were very much intrigued with these, and insisted upon fingering them. They are thin as paper, and, of course, as transparent as a piece of ordinary glass. No less an authority than George Fite Walters, the well-known sculptor, proclaims the beginning of a new era in art and fashion as a result of this development of glass.
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Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 27
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266GLASS FABRICS Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 27
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