FASHIONS IN DRESS.

Grey River Argus, 8 July 1926, Page 7

FASHIONS IN DRESS.

MEN’S BEAUTIFUL FIGURES. LONDON, June 16. The Queen attended inc Ascot races yesterday, wearing a white satin dress and black coat. The Court being in half-mourning for Queen Alexandra, many women to-day adopted black and white toilettes, giving the Ascot lawns and enclosures a magpie effect, enhanced by numerous mauves, pinks and beiges. The Queen to-day was dressed in white embroidered with pearls, and wearing also a lavender hat with a large plume. The Star remarks that fashionable gowns still aim at making woman appear like, a human lamp-post. “She has thus lost all her curves,” adds the writer. “Sad as it may seem, it is the morning-coated men who now claim ‘distinction for the figure beautiful They have such waists, such chests and such graceful hips!”