TO-NIGHT'S MANIKIN PARADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21736, 30 August 1932, Page 15

TO-NIGHT'S MANIKIN PARADE

The frocks to bo worn by the manikins at the i Town Hall this evening are all from Mr Arthur Barnett's showroom ami include some delightful models.

One of the street costumes is an ensemble in green and black checked velouv tweed, so fane as to look like velvet, made with a fitted skirt, a sleeveless coatee, and a bodice of green wool lace (one of the smartest fabrics of the season), and worn with a long velour tweed overcoat and a chic cream balibuntal 6traw hat trimmed with henna ribbon and a posy. A second is in powder-blue silk pique (another new fabric combining smartness with utility), and comprises i. skirt with a pointed yoke fastened by silver buttons to a delicious little white georgette blouse which is finished with ruffles and a tie of white georgette worked in blue and scarlet silk spots, a fitting three-quarter-length silk pique coat, and a plain white mother-of-pearl straw hat in a drooped shape.

Among the race frocks are several outstanging models. One of black crepe de chine printed in large pale pink spots is finished with a pale pink accordion frill at the neck and worn with a short-sleeved black coatee and a large picture hat in pale pink and black crinoline straw. Another of beige and black figured crepe roniain made with the new nineteen-gored skirt, and a draped front finished with a posy is worn with a sleeveless three-quarter-length coatee trimmed with fox fur and a chic black balibuntal sailor hat relieved with green and orange ribbon. A third of brown floral silk patterned in beige and orange has as'complement a brown afghalaine coat sleeveless, but made with a cape on which is worn a big rose posy, and a brown semi-sailor balibuntal straw hat relieved with orange and apricot. Finally there is an ensemble in black crepe marocain—a close-fitting sleeveless frock fashioned to the figure by means of stitched pleats, a coatee with enchanting magyar sleeves, and a small, smart black hat trimmed with a big chou of Bilk. The military effect in coats is seen on several occasions in this section—military coats being one of the season's newest novelties

House frocks include a handsome one of deep wine-coloured silk georgette, close fitting and trimmed with a self-coloured lace yoke extending into panels, and sleeves relieved with a georgette frill at the elbow, its matching picture hat, being of pineapple straw; one in royal blue crepe marocain, close-fitting with a cowl neckline and intricately puffed sleeves clasping the arm from wrist to elbow, and worn with a royal blue balibuntal straw hat trimmed in yellow; one in peacock-green silk marocain featuring the new high waistline, gores which ensure a close fit to the figure, a beige georgette collarette and a beige dropping straw hat trimmed with a green chou; and one of scarlet silk marocain with a flared skirt, fitting bodice and cowl neckline, and strange white organdie puffs on the sleeves worked in scarlet and white with whfch is worn a scarlet pineapple straw sailor hat trimmed with fruit.

Evening dresses are charming to a de-gree—high-waisted and close fitting with sweeping skirts and little jackets featuring large, puffed sleeves. They are in bright, clear colours—tango, burnt orange, pink, yellow, green and teal (a new tone combining lemon and grey), and are all. individualistic arid in keeping with the character of their wearer. One in cerise satin with a bodice outlined in black net is worn with a silver lace coatee; one in pale pipj? georgette, with a high waist' and flowing skirt has a short deeper pink coatee in which large puffed sleeves encrusted with coloured brilliants are featured. One is in salmon-pink ring velvet, cut from shoulder to hem on long classical lines with an intricate neckline finished at the corage with a diamente buckle, and one is an early Victorian model in buttercup coloured floral taffeta, made with a net fichu and completed with an old-world posy. Among evening wraps is a handsome coat of black silk velvet fitting the figure to the waist, whence it flares eoftly to the heels, and made with a high upstanding collar of white rabbit fur, which extends into a V down the back of the coat and forms large reveTs in front, the "same fur being used to smart effect in bands on the wide, loose sleeves. i-

The whole parade is an example of the personality, practicability and smartness of this year's garments which, despite their excellence of cut and line, are remarkably inexpensive/ As a relief from the show of street, race, house and evening dresses there are two period dresses — one of the sixteenth and one of the eighteenth century, some beach and boudoir wear, and a bridal retinue —the bride wearing a gown of plain white satin with a yoke and sleeves of beaded georgette, a tucked belt, and the customary veil and orange blossom, and her pretty maids' bouffant frocks of pale pink organdie with puffed spotted net sleeves, niched waistlines, and appliques of pale blue handmade flowers on the skirt and outlining the ueckline, and cartwheel hats of pale pink spotted net trimmed with pale blue and pink velvet flowers and ribbon streamers —an exquisite trio, indeed. The manikins are Mesdames T. Fergus, L. Hudson, Pearce, J. Sim and W. J. Young; and Misses Linda and Joy Barnett. A vice Bowbyes, Florence Clark, Dorothy Clark, Twinkle Couston, Margery Hervey, lona Irwin, Violet Livingstone, Billie Mitchell, Eileen and Beryl Service, Winnie Speight, Doris WallaceWatson, and Joyce Watt.