FRILLS AND BUSTLES.
VICTORIAN MODES IN 1931. WOMANLY WOMEN. Paris dress designers have made up their minds to make us really womanly women in the coming season. Girls of the plain-Jane-and no-nonsense type gasped when the long skirt swept the fashion world. They will get a worse shock when they see the frills, basques and bustle effects introduced in the new modes, says an authority overseas. Charles Frederick Worth invented the crinoline in the middle of the nineteenth century an 1 now his descendants have turned back the pages of history. The gowns Mr. Worth will show to the dress buyers have been evolved from the gowns worn at the Court of Louis XV., or during the Third Empire, but naturally they are designed on practical lines to'suit modern requirements. There will be bustles, but not of the dimensions of those worn by our grandmothers.' Skirts will be long and wide, waists will be trim and bodices snugly fitting. The bowler is finished so far as the Paris dress houses are concerned, but hats will be small and worn at an angle to show the hair at one side of the head.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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