FASHIONS LONDON WOMEN APPROVE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18629, 26 July 1930, Page 11

FASHIONS LONDON WOMEN APPROVE.

It is only now, when smart people are returning to London, and the activities of the season are commencing, that it is possible to judge how far the new fashions have appealed to chic femininity, and whether they are likely to be universally adopted for the summer. Already it is obvious that welldressed women have set the seal of approval on the three-quarter and seven-eighth length coats, below which appear several inches of frock. These coats, too, frequently have little capes, or winged pieces, suggesting a cape.

Miss Diana Churchill, Mr Winston Churchill’s daughter, is one of the very young girls who have adopted this little cape vogue on a two-piece of Royal blue. The Hon. Nancy Mitford, Lord and Lady Redesdale’s lovely eldest daughter, is another, and her navy blue suit has a dress spotted in white. Miss Susan Marshall Roberts, as well as the little cape on her black coat, has a large flat bow of the material at the nape of the neck, from which the cape falls gracefully. Lady Diana Duff Cooper, always a leader, has approved the uneven hemline of scallops or points, and the longer skirt for afternoon wear; while in the evening many of her frocks have trains. A particularly lovely evening dress that she wore at a big dinner party was of pink beige chiffon with an all-over shadow pattern of black leaves; a small posy of flowers made from the dress material suitably stiffened, was poised on her left shoulder, a narrow belt encircled her slim waist, and the full skirt in points, graduated from a length in front that just covered her ankles to a quintette of small trains at the back.

A becoming frock of flesh pink crepe de chene that she wore at a fashionable wedding recently, had a scalloped hem and a very long detachable scarf at the neck; the coatee of brown crepe de chene that she wore with this was scalloped at the hem to match the skirt.

Patterned and plain materials seem to have a fifty-fifty share of fashion for afternoon and evening dresses, and as to design, they are all cut to the figure, in some instances the waistline being accentuated by a narrow belt. Lady Da'vina Lytton favours the latter cn an exquisite evening frock of softest gold lame patterned in rose colour, the long slim skirt of which is scalloped at the hem, and longer at the sides than at the back and front. A beautiful necklace of rose-coloured beads ending in a huge tassel of rose and crystal stones which hangs to the waist in front, gave an effective finish to this creation .

On a beige chiffon evening dress, worn by Miss Virginia Graham, Captain and Mrs Harry Graham’s tall fair daughter, the lines of her figure and her waist are accentuated by perpendicular rows of rucking at the side and front of the corsage. The long skirt, which droops slightly to the back, has two flounces, and the circular cape, which falls in folds from the low back, isedged by a narrow flounce. Capes and handkerchief scarves cf the same material as the dress have had an in-

stantaneous success for evening wear, for they tend to give the softness of lines that is every woman’s aim this year.

Friends of Lady Astor have been casting admiring glances at her bright rose-coloured coat and skirt, with its big collar and sable. The skirt covers her calf, and the coat, which is threequarter length, is definitely waisted.

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