The Coming Season Will Be One For The Gorgeous In Dress

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 10

The Coming Season Will Be One For The Gorgeous In Dress

J1 IST as next season will be conspicuous for the brightness of its day wear, so will it be conspicuous for the glitter of its evening wear—since gold and silver lame, rich brocades, .and embroideries carried out in gold and silver, will set the distinctive note. It is to be a season for the gorgeous in dress. Hold lames and gold brocades and gold embroideries will make gold the most prominent of the evening colours, but this is only a phase o'l' the fashion. Even materials of other colours will be brightened with touches of it elaborately worked flowers and spray.* and designs, golden sashes and collars,

and girdles and buttons. The golden brightness will not even be confined to frocks as a whole, for the tunic and jacket fashions persist, and plain skirls will be matched witli glittering lunics .and jackets and capes. An idea of the styles for the now season's evening dresses, and id' the glitter which characterises I hem, itgiven by a Paris fashion correspondent, who writes: "A recognised even ing dress, not skirt and blouse, is put with a jacket of sequins in black or white or any colour. Again, Ihe jacket nitty be in rich brocade, as in Molyneux 's brocaded laffetn with a lovely tulip design in mauve and pink. Brilliantly Lovely Tunics.

"The bolero also was stressed by Patoti. who made it for the morning and I.nc evening, in cloth, in sill;, in velvet. . . We had tunics last sea-

son, and we have them again. The new tunic is Oriental—Persian, to be nearer- the truth. It is something magnificent for the evening, since it is made in gorgeous lames, gold, silver, coloured siIKS threaded Willi gold and silver, and till sorts of brocades. Closed to the throat, it falls from the waist to a very wide and Siifl' licmliue over a long, slim skirt. .let raid Cellophane. "The passion for gold and silver, gleam and glitter, is marked. All olack materials glitter with jel or cellophane, and every silk is powdered with gold or silver threads. Even in crochet and knitting for tie evening clothe-- —and there is much being worn—gold and silver threads are lao.-t used.

"Embroideries are well in the picture. The gold .and glitter of gob braids worked to first Empire design) marked such collections as those oi

Hehiaparelli and Mainbocher. On : I.hick jacket there might be slant in; pockets of gold braid as finely woikd as were the pockets on uniforms o high-grade officers. The exhibit ion o tiros and his pupils has supplied t!:< details for these embroideries. Every where then' is a tendency to use em broideries as trimming to plain wool leu and silk dresses.

The enininj* of the glittering in overling wear will surely lie liaili > uilli delight in New Zealand after this <(>:isiim hi coirti-is and linens has passed, for new materials are niway.>> \veleome after a leu months have taken |he novelty from the old. Some New Styles.

Tlu> diversity of the new styles H'enis amazing. They "ill range troiu ilie high-necked, high-wnisted irock, uilli tiny sleeves ami skirts fulling !nil from the waistline to the limit* enseal bles with the umbrella-skirted tunic and slim skirl benenth. There will also In* tin' jacket and bolero ensembles, quaintly attractive. There will lu> Utile pelisses in niched lan'ota, ;,.n;4 ilnw in- rapes of gold and silvei lunie, :iml ni' oinbioidered and gilded mn'.erials, and short i.*ajies equally resplendent. Sleeves, ii scorns, will have a distinction of their own. # floral Designs.

Floral and conventionalised designs, too, seem to be staying the course, and will probably be there in the coining materials. It seems that no one can ever grow tired of (lowers—either in gay colours, or sombrely black and silver, or lustrously golden. They will probably even be found as the subject of the embroideries, richly eaprisoned with gilded and silvered threads.

According to Paris news, (lowers will also be worn by day and evening as decorations. " Molyneu.s had some lovely blossoms in coral and ivory. Putou used full bloom roses in silk and velvet and composite matter for his evening coiffures; dahlias, chrysanthemums, ami snapdragons are among the newest fashions for evening flowers."

With flowers the most charming head ornaments are made. .Mme. Lemonnicr, the French modiste, had some which had all the grace of Ihe eighteenth century with the brightness of the present. Cornflowers were twisted into blue velvet to sit over one ear, while the velvet encircled the head in a tight twist, and was tied to two sharp ears above the flowers. Sequins and Brocades.

Sequins are another feature of fashion which is likely to appeal, especially in the case of the jet sequins. There are many women who do not care for the brightness of gold and silver, and prefer the sparkling dignity of black. To them the advent, of black sequins will be particularly

pleasurable, since black sequins enable a frock or jack.'t or wrap to reLain its blackness and yet give it a sparkle. However, the silvered and gilded sequins will make bright and lovely jackets and wraps. limeades have' aiwavs been admired, and no more decorative material could be found for the tunics, capes, and jackets, which will be worn with plain frocks. * * * * I ITTLE jackets arc a tonic to the holiday wardrobe. A Dalmatian felt bolero in dusty pink with parnia violet blanket stitching, worn over a printed blouse of the same colouring, is a useful as well as decorative addition. Peasant boleros with all-over embroidery are also fascinating accessories.