BLUE PREDOMINANT
THE QUEEN’S NEW FROCKS Women are eagerly awaiting the Queen’s first public appearance after the Coronation. For It is Her Majesty who will set the season’s fashions, and everyor3 is anxious to learn the secrts of her wardrobe. Some details have already been revealed. In the collection of 40 dresses the Queen has chosen, blue of every shade predominates. One gown of hyacinth blue lame has an immense collar of smokegrey fox. A cape of turquoise blue velvet is trimfned with chinchilla. There are simple blue linen dresses; blue velvet tea-gowns trimmed with light blue fur; and afternoon prints, crisply tailored, with little Jackets to match ending just below the waist, or full-length coats. A beautiful model chosen by the Queen is an evening coat of dull silver lame trimmed all ‘round the neck, down the front, and round the short train with fox fur. An Ascot dress of heavy white Nottingham lace is worn with a small jacket to match lavishly trimmed with mink. The Queen will set a new fashion in hats. This is a small, close-fitting skull cap trimmed with flowers and a minute veil.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 12
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190BLUE PREDOMINANT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 12
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