SUMMER FASHIONS GO GAY.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3209, 20 September 1934, Page 6

SUMMER FASHIONS GO GAY.

(Says Travis Banton).

The entire fashion calendar for this summer spells.r-e-l-i-e-f, according to Travis Banton, famous designer at •the Paramount studios. “It is as "though women had been in mourning for some years and are suddenly emerging,” he says. “It’s a rise-and-shine mood, and has spread throughout style-dom. There is romance; there is flattery and there is grace in nearly every recognised fashion. “I particularly like the training, wind-blown tendency,” says Banton. “I like to dress feminine players in the type of things which will enhance their loveliness with swirling fabrics, trains and just a suggestion of drap-

eries. For Claudette Colbert, in “Cleopatra,” I have done several costumes which I consider ideally suited to adaptation.

“One very desirable quality which can be taken into the present mode, I believe, is the movable phase of these costumes* Silver lame is used for one gown’ and the entire thing is a drapery suspended on Jewelled rings. Whenever and wherever Miss Colbert moves, this gown responds with graceful accord.

“Next to the Cleopatra mode, I am emphasising’ the continued success of adaptations from Carole ' Lombard’s costumes. I designed these things along the 1914 silhouette,' yet in many of this summer’s gowns there is a di--re!ct reflection of the draped-up skirt, the split skirt and the wihite girdle.

Another revival from pre-war styles, is the transparent dinner gown of black chiffon, with the ‘camisole slip’ effect.. This. type of frock is in keeping with-the dramatic quality in new! * fashions.” -