FASHION'S DECREE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18279, 23 December 1933, Page 14

FASHION'S DECREE

THE 1933-34 LINE

CLOSE-FITTING' STYLES

•‘Fashion decrees that wo should wear - .

]Muijy, many times wo have been amuseu reading sparkling little articles m smart fashion journals regarding Dame Fashion’s latest whims. \\ e have laughed' openly over the new hats. “Silly little hats,” we have called them. We have become exasperated at the suggestion that we should lengthen our skirts, or return to the famous hobble line of 1910.

But after vowing that nothing on earth could make us adopt any of these new fangled notions, what lias happened Before a fortnight has passed we have sneaked out in the most ultra of these despised creations, suffering, perhaps, from a bad attack of self-consciousness, but determined to “do or die” in the name of fashion.

So it is with the silhouette! When the natural silhouette was first hinted at there was an outcry. When corset manufacturers began tu tell the public that foundation garments were essential to the success of these smart, close-lif-ting styles, women in all parts of the world were in revolt.

What? Gi'e up their hard-won comfort? Never! But little by little, b> means of press advertising, frock and corsetry demonstrations, they learnt that the new, moulded frocks were ever so much more charming, more feminine than the sack-like garments they had been wearing since the war. They discovered, too, that not only were they most attractive in appearance but that they brought comfort, grace and beauty to the most unpromising figure. To-day with slimmer types mirt medium figures, the one-piece foundation stands supreme for the rib-mouiumg, youthful silhouette that every smart woman regards as her ideal. It gives smooth, flowing and unbroken lines which are essentials of the new silhouette.

One only lias to glance at the new evening styles to be convinced of the absolute need for sleekly-moulded, continuous figure lines from bust to thigh.

Take the princess sheath, for instance-, this clings to the figure with glove-like insistence from shoulder to knee, without even a belt to break the line. Jt there is a noticeable division at tlm waist beneath this style of frock, the whole effect is entirely ruined. liven the slightly fuller styles which follow along classical Grecian lines, still cling closely to the bust, the waist and the long, slim lines of the hip. Dainty afternoon frocks make the same demands, also, whether they are carried out- in diaphanous cottons or slinky silks.