THE NEWEST FROCKS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 89, 30 March 1932, Page 10

THE NEWEST FROCKS

FASHIONS FROM LONDON. (From a Lady Correspondent) London, February 18. The first British model house (which will function on exactly the same lines as the famous Paris houses) has met, I am told, with instantaneous success. Certainly enterprise and imagination lay behind many of the models paraded at the Mayfair Hotel. The designer, a woman who owns a ultra-smart dress shop in Davis street, has invented several new ideas which are likely to bi copied by the Paris dressmakers, and, in fact, by designers all over tho world.

One is a new and amusing coat-and-skirt, in bridge colours, to be worn over a bathing suit. Another is a set which solves once and for all the perennial problem of the English weekend. The whole outfit is executed in two colours. First of ail there is a long coat. If this is in green, it has a lining of white silk with green spots. This goes equally well with a plain green silk dress having a white and green spotted collar, or with a warm white woolly cardigan suit having a white and green spotted silk blouse There are two hats, one in white felt for the cardigan suit, and one in white straw for the green dress. The finishing touch is a greeu bag which goes equally well with either. I have never seen a more dainty and neat ensemble. And it is a complete week-end suit, because is provides both lor a hot, sunny day on the river or the courts, or for a chilly day when a thin frock looks out of place. The piece de resistance of the show was a wedding dress which was like a snowdrop. it was of white satin, straight to the knees, and Haring out into a long train. Below the knees it was embroidered with madonna lilies whose green stalks ran straight up the skirt in lines parallel to the greeu piping on the empire bodice.

A SILVER WIG.

Another novelty was a silver wig. It was made of metal “hairs” arranged in a perfectly coiffured wave, and worn with a negligee. This new idea fot dinners or cocktail parties aroused a great deal of interest. Some of the evening frocks had a simplicity and a beauty of line which nothing in Paris could beat. The materials (all British made) were lovely. There were some little cardigan suits in a light, loose tweed made specially in Scotland which were chic-ness itself. Frocks for day wear were definitely shorter. The fashionable material for morning clothes was a sort of rough-cast wooi marocain which is going to be the rage. The colours too, were not the usual, straight-forward range. There were some extraordinary delicate tints. Oue which struck me particularly was a new' shade of very dark Peacock, a sort of shimmering deep-sea green, used for a two piece suit worn with a rose and peacock check blouse.