WOMEN’S FASHIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21544, 16 January 1932, Page 12

WOMEN’S FASHIONS

MORE PRACTICAL FROCKS LONG OUTDOOR SKIRTS DOOMED. LONDON, January 6. Long outdoor skirts are doomed, and experts have decreed that fashions shall be more practical than they have been for years. Evening frocks made of woollens of many dazzling colours, light in weight, and as fine as silk, will be worn on lines bordering on the Grecian. Long skirts may be seen at Ascot, but will never be used for town wear, being replaced by .trim tailored coats of military cut over neat little frocks of walking length or tailored suits and coat frocks cut on military lines with broad shoulders.

Mr Peter Russell, a fashionable designer, declares that the new fashions will oblige women to attend to their deportment, hold their heads erect, have square shoulders, and walk with an easy swinging stride instead of mincing their steps,'which affected last year’s Victorian evening skirts. British woollens are being increasingly used, and evening frocks are made of lovely fine weight woollens which do not crush, and are like silk or crepe de chine. They hang beautifully, and will be worn over slips of thick silks, rustling like Victorian petticoats. The evening frocks will return to simple grace with a touch of Grecian influence, on long flowing lines, as much as 20 yards of material being used.