“Microbe” Frocks

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 10

“Microbe” Frocks

DEARLY smart women in Paris aro wearing dress materials designed after the misoroscopic patterns of diseased tissues, microbes/and drugs, t Mine. Guijlot, a French scientist, has discovered beauty in the structure of certain microbes which nffilict mankind/ and has photographed them as patterns for dress materials, wailpapers, and other articles of decoration. ’ Under the eye of The microscope certain germs, acids and poisons can possess exquisite loveliness. When Jlmc. Guillot, peering into her lens, discovered this, she saw designs that sfle knew would harmonise with modern fashions in dress and furnishing. Ho she photographed the sources of her inspiration, and, without telling them where she had obtained the results, she sent her photographs to textile designers. So to-day well-dressed women are wearing picturesque designs copied from certain pathological tissues. Recently in Paris a pattern of silk came to be known as “dope silk,” because some young women drug addicts took a fancy to it. .As drug victims tend to associate together, the “dope silk” inaugurated a style among them. What was curious was the fact that the design on the “dope silk” had been copied faithfully from the formation of the crystals of one of the opium derivatives ns seen under high magnification. Lampshades, bon-bon boxes and cigarette cases have all faithfully been reproduced from cyanide crystals; citric acid crystals have embellished a beautiful screen.