Youth Sets Fashion Barbaric “Jewellery”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21103, 1 August 1938, Page 14

Youth Sets Fashion Barbaric “Jewellery”

If you run through the names of people famous in the British dress world you will see that youth has a great deal to say in the matter of modern modes. You will find also that some of the designers who have made names for themselves are young men. It seems queer, but there it is. After all, women do dress, in some degree, to win men’s approval and, as young men are admittedly critical, it is not, perhaps, very surprising to find them telling us what to wear and how to wear it. The latest recruit to the roll of youthful designers is Neil Roger, a Scotsman of 25 or so, scion of a well known family, and educated at Edinburgh. He held his first show a short time ago and, unlike the majority of designers this season, gave a display full of colour, with only a few black models. This was good. Although black is the perfect

background, it is refreshing to get away from it at times and revel in the cheering warmth of red, pink, purple, yellow and golden tones, and in the coolness of the green and blue ranges. Here, as in other collections, are shown fitted jackets “zipped” from hem to throat; also a number of straight coats swinging loose from the shoulders. And, besides the tight skirts to which we have become accustomed, with a few pleated ones to vary things, there are very full gathered skirts—for days as well as evening. Something “Different.” A model that pleases is developed in peasant brown surah silk—the material that is having a great success this sea-

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son. The skirt, rather longer than the majority now being worn, is gathered at the waist, and there is a short bolero jacket with fitted sleeves. The third piece of the ensemble is a dainty lacetrimmed white crepe blouse, and the fourth is a brown felt hat inspired by that worn by a Mexican priest! A 1938 note is the extremely wide buckled belt of brown suede. In particular one liked the green fine serge suit, made with a pleated skirt, and a straight “zipp” fastened coat, the coat bound, as are a number of the best models this year, with black braid. Colour flashes from beneath the straight jacket of a navy blue town suit, the waistcoat being made of rows and rows of navy ribbon gaily embroidered with multi-coloured flowers. With a black face cloth frock gaiety comes again in the form of a rich blue gros-grain bolero and a vivid red scarf draped to hide most of the dress bodice. A black cloth skirt is worn with a white linen jacket which has three pockets each side and black button fastenings, a delicate blue tucked chiffon blouse completing the ensemble. The jacket is cut quite high to the neck and has small revers and no collar, but very deep revers and a moderately deep, flat collars are suggested by piped stitching giving a “double revers” effect. With a navy blue day frock, the bodice pleated in front and the skirt pleated at the back, goes a leaf green coat, full, pleated, swinging jauntily over the dark background. Moro green is shown in the silk jersey dress, cleverly draped at the top to give a bolero line, and accompanied by a cyclamen jersey coat. The alliance of green and cyclamen is not startling—why should it be, since the natural cyclamen flowers have their own green foliage? A touch of rust colour relieves the sombre appearance of a black duvetyn frock which, by the way, follows the

vogue for fringe by having deeply fringed epaulettes. The dress is one part of a two-piece ensemble, the second part being a coat cut in alternate panels of rust and black. This Brightness. In the afternoon you may care to toy with the idea of a geranum red chiffon model, the brilliance nicely toned down by a draped black sash and black gloves. You can, if you like, carry a fan at an afternoon par this season, and if the fan is black, with the red” dress and other black “trimmings,” so much the better. Another bright bit—a cerise gros-grain suit, worn with a daintv black lace blouse, a picturesque black hat—and a gay little flower posy placed, not in its appointed place, but on the top of the left sleeve. To wear with evening gowns. Neil Roger has had some uncommon—what you might call “barbaric looking”—jewellerv designed. With an Empire model in black chiffon you are invited to wear a satin coat heavily embroidered with “near jewels’ of many colours. There is yellow embroidery on the dress, and the jewel work on the wrap is repeated in a somewhat massive necklac.