PERSONALITY IN DRESS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18832, 21 March 1931, Page 13 (Supplement)

PERSONALITY IN DRESS

HINTS BY EXPERT. Personality Is one of the most important factors in guiding a clothes designer. Every woman has a distinctive individuality with subtle complexities of temperament which are to be duly considered by the modiste, says a dress expert. And now a word to those who may j be feeling dejected because most of : their last year’s models seem to be a total loss. If they are fashion-wise they will realise there are many ways of modernising their old winter things. Take, for instance, those last winter frocks of satin or serge that are still perfectly good but a little too short. They can be brought smartly up to date by the addition of one of j those three-quarter tunics in satin or lame that will lend them a dressy and distinctly modern air. If a pleated frock be of net, georgette, or some other fabric, it may be used as the tunic itself and will be worn over a tight satin slip showing 6in. or 7in. below the hem. If the skirt is too short it can be lengthened by a hip yoke which will never be suspected under one of the smart hip-length slip-on tunics spon- j sored by the leading dress designers. They may have these in velveteen, supple velvet, or the thick de-lustred satin that looks like suede. Or they may prefer one of those fine silk jersey tunics to match their suit, one that buttons up to the neck like a soldier’s coat.

WOMEN AQAIN TO JINGLE. With the advent of Queen Adelaide fashions, rings and bracelets are assuming new proportions, and women are again to jingle and rattle as they move about a room, states the Manchester Guardian. “Bracelets are many of them of the clasp variety and fit closely to the arm, some of them being so wide as almost to form an undersleeve to the dress. Those very wide bracelets, which are really more like cuffs, were introduced for sports dresses some time ago, and they recalled the straps which workmen wear round their wrists to give them strength except that they, were even wider. The woollen jersey was tucked into them and they were effective, espeially when worn with the torque type of necklace. Bings show signs of being almost as formidable. There are the very wide gold rings which take up almost the whole of a joint and are generally rather dull in colour. Besides these, there are rings which do not contain stones, or form a setting for them, but which actually are stones themselves. Jade, cornelian, lapis are all used for them, and the rings are cut out whole into the required shape. Most of them are very big in size and look more like a man’s signet ring; gold, stone, and all. These rings are expensive, but not so expensive as diamonds and pearls, and they are expected to vary according to the colour and kind of the clothes. Thus, lapis and the heavier-looking stones would go with suits, while crystal and chrysoprase would be suited to lighter dresses. It almost seems as though the era for Scotch pebbles may be coming in again, so many are the stones which are now being used to go with the many kinds of dresses. The brooch is here again, and on some of the berets and the caps that n'eed clinching at the fold, the pebble would be well in place.