Our Flappers Out of Date

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 22

Our Flappers Out of Date

Longer Skirts and Curves FURBELOWS. TOO A “Punch” cartoon, according to a cable, depicts an English girl in modest full-flowing evening gown, labelled “Commonsense,” talking to a Colonial girl, wearing an advanced mannish coatee and short skirt, embroidered with the words, “Strike Policy.” The English girl is saying to the Colonial: "My dear! What a frock! You’re terribly behind the times.” The full force of the cartoon may not occur to most of us. but we will realise it when we learn that at the autumn fashion’s exhibition at the Olympia, the new modes, shown to the world for the first time, displayed frocks with billowy skirts, frocks with longer skirts and frocks with waists. Even wristlets of silk were worn with some of the frocks. Our great-grand-mamma wore wristlets of silk. That was the fact impressed on “Punch”—that in a week or two the Mademoiselle of the boyish mode would be as out of date as the Gibson girl; that madams of the slender figure would be with Queen Anne. The Curve Returns Curves are coming back. In London mannequins with real figures are being sought to wear the new frocks. Everything is softly feminine with filmy scarves and floating ends and billowy skirts that trail. -The scarf is already here. One evening gown, black, was high at the front and cut almost to the waist behind. A tail which trailed down at the hack swept the ground. Princess Silhouette is to be with us again. She will wear the frock with only the natural waistline. That means curves again and figures. Longer skirts are the logical conclusion. Longer Dresses There will be skirts well below the knee both in the day time and the evening. Two or three inches will be added to day frocks and evening frocks will have trains, anything up to a. yard or so along the ground. One train at the show can be picked up and flung forward over the shoulders; it is lined with black and becomes a lovely cloak. The newest hats will be shaped like Dolly Vardon bonnets, with a big flap falling close on one side, according to one authority. The close-fitting hat will still be in vogue, but the brim will have lost its severity, being brought down lower on one side. And this will be done because it Js more feminine!