Three New Skirt Lengths

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 5

Three New Skirt Lengths

Greek Lines for Evening Gozt'ns In the new Paris collections there are three skirt lengths—the moderately short, for sport and motoring wear in town; longer (midway down the calf of the leg) for full afternoon dresses: and for evening, quite long. Subdivisions may be made again. For the simple afternoon dress the skirt is not as long as for the garden party or reception dress. For dancing in the evening there are shorter dresses than those made for full evening dresses of stately order. Tailored coats and skirts are all the fashion. Some are in tweed, some in plain cloth, some in light silk and wool, or all-silk fabrics, and again in tussore, of which material there are several new kinds. The skirts may be pleated and stitched from the waist to within a foot or so of the edge of the hem, they may be folded over, or they may be shaped to flare a little at the hem, but not much. Some have groups of pleats, others have groups of pin tucks. There are many ways of giving just a touch of flat trimming and some slight fullness to a skirt in the new styles, but invariably the line is slim and straight about the hips, crossed by manv lines; but never is the slim line of the figure tampered with. The waistline is still high, and in some cases has been raised in evening dresses to the Greek line. Skirts are sometimes cut with a corselet band, others with a pointed edging risingabove the actual line. . In flounce form reaching straight or in points to above the knees, tile Greek tunic trims many afternoon and evening skirts. Below the knees is another deep flounce reaching to the feet. This form of skirt drape;y is certainly the easiest to wear and the most graceful.