LEATHER FOR EVENING FROCKS
Until recently leather had been used for nearly everything but women's dresses. Now an inventive dressmaker has remedied the deficiency (says a writer in an English paper). At a collection held in Berkeley street, Mayfair, W., a new evening gown was introduced made of soft, white flexible leather, stamped to look like crocodile White leather gauntlet mittens with black velvet thumbs were worn with the gown, which had a band of black velvet across one shoulder to match the lining of the sash. , ' " The dress actually is as comlortable to wear as one made of woven silk fabric," the writer was assured by Bryna, the designer, " and one of its good points is that it can be easily cleaned with chalk."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21784, 25 October 1932, Page 13
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125LEATHER FOR EVENING FROCKS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21784, 25 October 1932, Page 13
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