In Search of fashion:—London

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20510, 31 August 1936, Page 10

In Search of fashion: — London

BETTY CULPAN

(From Our Sydney Correspondent.) The fashion news from Miss Betty Culpan, from London, is particularly apt this week in view of the evening gowns shown across the top of this page. They are of black marquisette or net over floral, or contrasting plain slip. In a postscript to her fashion comments, Miss Culpan says that the black sheer J vogue is certainly most outstanding and very practical she thinks for Australian * women, and that the smartest women at the ’> >•’> • " Savoy and the Dorchester are wearing it. .

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LONDON, June 28. WITH Ascot and its frills and furbelows over for another year, and the Royal Garden Parties a fashion-prophecy for three weeks yet, I have little to forecast of practical interest to the “chic” Australian, but take this one tip, which will still be hot when it reaches you, the newest things being worn here at the moment for twilight dining are in-

triguing dresses of daytime length and nighttime glamor, made in sheerest black. Black marquisette, black mousseline de soie. black chiffon, and black organza, whiffed 'into short puffed sleeves, into transparent bodices over decollete slips, into tunics or flared skirts. Follow the Parisian prediction for black, and wear

extra wide-brimmed black straw hat or a shiny pillbox one and open toe black patent leather sandals. Choose your sheer hose to match the late setting sun, and you will be the mysterious woman in black.

To a peplum dress of black mousseline de soie, Peter Russell adds a demure posy of pale pink flowers, and he shows it on a match-like mannequin with like pastel in gloves and bag. Another version of sheer black that is as flattering as “sundown” or “moon-up,” is a tunic style—again with short sleeves that you can see through, and a high neckline shirred with a satin ribbon. It is just a ruse for line, for

its transparency makes it as cool as twilight, and this confection is another of Schiaparelli’s “youthful sophistications.” Under any of these sheer blacks the slip should be low-cut and should dip very deep at the back to allow smooth shoulders to flicker bewitchingly through their sheer covering.