FIVE MONTHS AHEAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21531, 31 December 1931, Page 13

FIVE MONTHS AHEAD

NEXT SPRING COLOURS

ATTRACTIVE. SHADES

LONDON, November 24

Before Londoners have needed their ready warm winter clothes they are being told by those who regulate fashions what will be outstanding features of next spring —i.e., about May. They will be ready long before then. Mr Symonds, president of the British Fashions and Fabrics Bureau, says that "style right” and “price right” will be the British manufacturers’ slogan of 1932. That slogan will capture the imagination as well as the orders of the world’s buyers at the British Industries Fair in February. We are told that the translucent brilliance of the spring colours will drive away “ taxation blues.” The beautiful new types of British materials will create new buying desires in all classes of the community. Noteworthy shades for evening will be: Ashes of roses, laurel, peach-tint, linnet’s egg, moonstone, valley mist, peachblossom, snow shadow. Daytime wear will include; Soldier red, thistle, navy blue, rusty red, tan, cornflower, Lincoln green. Notable colour combinations are being prepared, among them being: Gold-dust and sapphire, peacock and tiger lily, ashes of roses a,nd smoked pearl, valley mist and peach blossom, tan and stucco, linnet’s egg and brickette. Soldier red corduroy jersey fabric from Leicestershire for junipers with skirts of tiny check navy blue tweed will strike an artistic patriotic note. Lancashire corduroy velvets will return to favour and become a leading fashion for sports wear on the golf links and iceskating rinks. Herringbone, dice and basket patterns will be combined with plain- ribbed weaves in many striking and effective models. . • . , Coarse canvas textures in fine Yorkshire wool fabrics will be harmonised with West of England face cloths. Jet ami ivory chenille. Scotch Burnbrae with Lancaster black and white leather trimmings will be very much in evidence. Knitted cardigans in bright contrasting colours will be worn with tailor,niad6s and country suits. British artificial silk satins in a kaleidoscopic range of pastel colourings will prove the spotlight for evening wear, Lancashire cotton and artificial silk fabrics, both plain and figured; also Nottingham silk and cotton laces, and the •new wool-lace, will be featured in the spring models of the London and Pans fashion creators. RUSTLE OF PETTICOATS. The present generation of young people has never had the chance to wear rustling silk, for fashions have gone through so many different phases. But they will be happy in the springtime, heralded by the rustle of their silk petticoats, made in all shades of taffeta. A USEFUL MODEL. An economical model suit comprises a skirt of fine woollen material, a blouse of wool lace, and two coats, one in Irish tweed intended for morning wear and another in British lambswool fabric, to be worn for afternoon occasions. Brown, beige, navy, or green would make up well. A “ TONIC ” TOUCH. Hats will continue for many months ahead to be fascinating and romantic, thus increasing; their “ tonic ” value. British felts, velours, velvets, chenille fabrics, ribbons, leathers, and accessories will, says Mr Symonds, come "head-first” into the spi'iner limelight of millinery chic.