Advance Fashions

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 13

Advance Fashions

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The fashion trades magazines showing advance rashions for next winter indicate that for evening wear it is to be a. season of frills. Many of the evening frocks are sheath fitting to the knee and then a very wide goreu flounce joining to the upper without fulness, but about six yards round the bottom is completely covered with narrow frills. Some of the frocks have about 12 frills, some have six sliglitl,. wider ones; a few have one very deep one, about half the depth of the un-

derneath one Net is very largely used, and the frills may be edged with valensciennes lace or Hemmed with satin ribbon. Sleeves for these frocks are big puffs, also frilled to match, and where there is only one extra frill on the skirt one widish frill attached to a narrow band comes round the arm.

leaving the shoulder bare. This gives a wonderful chance for renovating old frocks, for the frock itself is of silk or satin, with , the net or tulle to match. Trains are forecast, too, and these frilled frocks are right to the ground in front, with a decided train at the back. They are perfectly charming. Another suggestion is a box-pleated ruche round the bottom of the skirt and a similar box pleating over the shoulders. One such frock frock has the ruche edged both sides with narrow val. lace, and it took one hundred and forty-four yards of the lace! Some of the frocks are showing a ruche, very full, round the skirt about twelve * inches below the waistline This gives a good chance for joining the material underneath the Another style, a renovation suggestion, „is a isatin or silk frock cut away, leaving just a bib effect in the front, terminating in two narrow straps at the neck line over the shoulders. The sides of the bodice are then filled in with embroidered or printed silk or georgette to tone, with sleeves of t'ne same. The bib is cut to a deep V and the embroidered material appears again as a narrow vest. This is a wonderful opportunity for transforming an evening frock that has gone under the arms into a charming afternoon or bridge frock. Provided that a frock is wide enough, it may be, lengthened hy cutting off the shoulder straps and putting a deep yoke of lace or net on the top. You can lengthen a frock by about six inches by this method, so long as thej frock will drop lower over the hips and you don’t interfere with the cut and I then you don’t interfered with the outj and hanp- of the skirt. A black silk or] satin frock can look perfectly charming with a white crepe top, with the black skirt coming to a point in front, catching sown a cape of the white crepe which has no join in the front, but which comes almost to the throat and forms a very low Y at the back. Sequins are coming back, and marabo.it and ostrich feather trimming is used in the most fascinating way, being ■ fashioned into shoulder capes to match an evening frock or epaulets which give just that shoulder width which j brings a frock up to date. Stripes and checks for evening wear still hold their own.