FASHION POINTERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19943, 30 October 1934, Page 10

FASHION POINTERS

All the well-known dress designers across the Channel are crowding their shows one on top of the other now. It is impossible to give all in detail, so I shall publish the most interesting features from each, writes a correspondent. Split skirts for both day and evening wear are to be worn in the autumn. There is a vogue for beige satin alone and allied to black. Long tight satin tunics have come to stay for afternoon dresses. There is a change in the evening silhouette. Many heavy satin eveningdresses have very full gored skirts touching the ground and trailing on the floor. The. waists are narrow and the fullness falls directly from them. Picture frocks, also with full skirts, will be seen for dinner and dressy afternoon wear. Sometimes they have long full sleeves, or those finishing at the elbow. Bodices are tight, with demure lace collars, and a row of buttons down the centre, or exaggerated rever effects. These dresses recall the Garbo film, “Queen Christina,” 1860 period and also Romney. Actually they are a mixture of all. Numbers of them are made in heavy “old” materials—taffeta broche, faille, satin, etc. —and are worn with ermine capes and big flat muffs, with tails. Many of the tweed suits have the new violet silk blouses. There is a revival of golden seal and Hudson seal. Fox is relegated to a back seat.