Paris Dress Shows Feature High Collars And Shorter Skirts

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27166, 23 August 1949, Page 2

Paris Dress Shows Feature High Collars And Shorter Skirts

Christian Dior’s dress show, for which the fashion world has been waiting, brought no startling changes. Paris has decided that skirts must be shorter—ls inches from the ground is the approved length, writes a London correspondent. Dior showed pencil slim skirts with hiplength tunics tightly belted and Jutting pockets. Day dresses were slim in front, with back panels or asymmetrical folds and flutes on a pencil silhouette. The London autumn collections have emphasised enormous Byron collars for overcoats, folded over and so upstanding as to come hslfway up the back of the head. From these spring equally huge revers. Wrap-around material also swathes the shoulders of cocktail and evening dresses, standing up stiffly in rich brocades. Pockets, generally outsize, appear everywhere, even on a black net cccktail dress. Blouses, mostly in' rich tie silks, were shown high necked right up to the chin, and only lacked boned supports to make them entirely Edwardian. A full tie bow was an alternative finish to a blouse neckline.