“Plus Fours” For Women. London’s Fashion Surprises

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 10

“Plus Fours” For Women. London’s Fashion Surprises

LONDON, Feb. 15. FASHIONS for 1933 so diverse as to * include feminine plus fours and the Spanish dancer's skirt will be paraded this week in the salons of two brilliant young London designers. Although Paris has issued her edicts for the past fortnight, it is the London “openings" that fashionable women have been awaiting so eagerly. They have ceased to go to Paris out of motives of patriotism, and London designers have accordingly forged ahead.

To-day a Bruton street designer it showing evening gowns with tlia ►Spanish dancer skirt, tight to below the knees, and then very full. To-morrow another designer in the same street is introducing women’s plus fours that can be converted into cruising kit. Horizontal Stripes.

“Women arc definitely taking to trousers," Mr. Peter Russell said. “The fashion was launched six months ago, but needed a lead such as Marlene Dietrich has given it. Women’s figures have changed; five years ago the mode could never have been introduced."

The plus fours are cut the same as men’s and made by a man’s tailor. They rvill be paraded with phillie shoes and the new beret worn over one eye. A sun-bathing flannel dress and sack coat adapt the outfit for cruising. Horizontal stripes rvill create one of the most startling evening fashions. They will encircle the figure from bodice to ankles. Stripes will still be worn from morning to night, and chevrons will adorn collars, epaulettes, and belts.

Lacquered fabrics provide another dress sensation. A lacquered chili'ou evening gown is ono of the Victor Stiebcl creations that mannequins will parade to-day. lee blue, a dirty pink, and two shades of grey, smoke and pearl, will be the principal colors featured at this display.