AFTERNOON DRESSES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18552, 26 April 1930, Page 13 (Supplement)

AFTERNOON DRESSES

ARE DISTINCT FORM MORNING CLOTHES. Afternoon dresses are quite distinct from morning clothes; they are made of velvet, plain and printed, crepe satin also, plain, brocaded and interwoven with gold and silver threads, moire and silk faille. Lelong’s colours are clear and strong —black, black ancl white, brown, green, slate grey, grenadine red, grey with mauve light in it, yellow, blue and a combination of two or more colour sin one dress. The printed velvets are rich in colour and fairly bold in design, those for the afternoon being smaller than those for evening dresses. All afternoon dresses have long sleeves, and many have trimmings on the front of the bodice and down the back of the skirt, frills and crossway bands. Moire coats are worn over chiffon dresses, elaborately frilled and draped, yet simple in line.

Fur -collars—astrakhan or fox—are high. The skirts dip slightly behind. Every dress, despite the simplicity of outline, has complicated insets, frillings, fanshaped pleats and panels. A dress of one material and a coat of a second make a usual ensemble.