London Fashions

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18467, 4 August 1934, Page 10

London Fashions

TEA-tray millinery and pastel-colored, 1 long," tight tunics were outstanding fashion features in London on June 14. “Weather permitting,” writes the Sydney Morning Herald’s Loudon correspondent, “wo are likely to see some enormous hats; and, later on in the season, Australians may expect a tiemendous vogue for wid'c-brimmcd hats, worn fair and square on the head, as now aired in London by all the smartest women. “Sequinnod evening gowns arc having a great success during the social season, even debutantes wearing them At a ball in Mayfair two of the season’s Glebs’ caused a sensation by arriving in identical frocks of silver sequins both of them very slinky and tight-fitting, with fish-tail trains mid shoulder-straps of twisted jadegreen velvet ribbon. Most evening gowns, in Tact, have some kind ot glitter about them. The simplest organdies and starched laces are woven with metallic thread, or else studded with diamante jewels. Alice-in Wonderland diadems of real flowers are very much in vogue for evening wear, and some girls have inaugurated the pretty fashion of wearing a collar made of natural flowers, for daytime as well as evening. I noticed a pretty j blonde at a cocktail party who had transformed the simplest of black crepe romaine frocks witli a collar of ; real gardenias. ”