AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23527, 16 June 1938, Page 18

AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE

NEW ZEALANDERS PRESENTED (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, May 25. Four New Zealanders are attending the Evening Presentation Party at Buckingham Palace to-night, with Mrs Jordan. They are: Mrs John Fraser (Dunedin), Mrs Malcolm Morley (Auckland), Mrs Arthur Peterson, and Mrs Arthur Porritt (Wanganui), Mrs I. W. Raymond (Invercargill) will take her daughter-in-law, Mrs Jack Raymond, while Mrs Raymond's daughter, Mrs C. Connell, from Scotland, is presenting a Scottish friend. Each husband accompanies his wife. This is the first of the less formal presentation parties, when trains and plumes are not part of the regulation dress as they are for courts. Mrs Jordan has chosen a dress of gold lace over old gold satin. Mrs Fraser, who. perhaps, will best be recognised as Madame Winnie Fraser, had a dress specially designed and made for her in Vienna. It is of foam coloured chiffon velvet, draped in classic lines. A colour contrast has been imparted by green shaded flowers arranged across the shoulders. Jade ear-rings, broad-banded sandals of green satin, and a graceful ostrich feather fan repeat the same lovely hue as the dress and complete a very effective scheme. Mrs Porritt, who will be accompanied by her husband, wears white and silver brocrde, with draped bodice to the waist, full skirt, and narrow shoulder sprays of the same fabric. Her ornaments are a diamond bandeau and earrings, a pearl necklace, and a diamond and pearl soray brooch. A flame coloured ostrich fan provides a pleasing colour touch. Mrs Peterson chose a deep slipper satin, cut on Empire lines, the bodice elaborately embroidered with diamante and silver beads in an unusual wheat-

ear design. “ Hyde Park green ”is the shade of her fan. A spray of cream orchids and lily of the valley is being carried, and a similar hair spray has a very becoming effect. TO-NIGHT’S PARTY The Presentation Party, something quite new, owes its inception to an idea evolved by Lord Cromer to cope with the aftermath of Coronation year. So many debutantes and young married women who wished to be presented at the Coronation Courts had to be asked to “ wait a year ” that when this year’s debutantes came along there would only have been room for them all if the King and Queen had held seven or eight courts. To each of the two presentation parties —the second one will be_on July 12— twice as many ladies will be invited as to an ordinary court, because they will not have to pass individually before the thrones. “The presentation party idea is frankly an experiment” (says "One Intimately Associated with the Court writing in the Daily Mail to-day). "If it is a success, as most royal experiments are, it is likely to be repealed next year, or whenever there seems to be an unusually heavy waiting-list for the courts.” For several hundred guests, going to the Palace will count officially as “ presentation ” at court, though, in fact, none of the ladies will be formally presented. There will be a general curtsey from the ladies as the royal party comes in, but that will be all. Though the men will wear full dress uniforms of red and blue and gold, or full court dress if there are civilians, there will be altogether much less formality than is customary at a court.

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