OLD FASHIONS "IN" AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 8 (Supplement)

OLD FASHIONS "IN" AGAIN.

One of the 188J fashions now in evidence i" the jersey bodice (says a London paper). Modistes intend to make it a feature of diets for seaside wear. As worn at present, this t-tyJe of bodice is much lim rk«ly fitting than its prototype of the 'eighties. On a rare frocb m soft white sponge cloth worn by a debutant.- of sweet seventeen the je'rsev proved a mo«t becoming garment It fitted the slim young figure as easily as the loose glove of fashion fits its „.,.. p| V hand. The bodice, which fastened at the back, blended invisibly into the skirt some way below the undefined waist Another 1880 fashion „|„, M . ~.v iva' | is a feature of dress this sea*,,,, h t | M . Hl coiffure The playgoer of 40 vears or thereabouts finds his memories of youth refreshed by the sight of ladies m stalls or boxes with hair dressed in the style favoured by his mother and aunts when he was a boy, the hair being piled to «io top of the head and twisted into a knot of the "teapot handle" order. 4' l