NO MORE KNEES.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17533, 15 October 1928, Page 5

NO MORE KNEES.

FASHION'S LATEST DECREE. Shapely legs and pretty knees will be no longer a feminine asset if the forthcoming fashions of English designers are adopted. The trade organised at the Olympia was the biggest dress show ever held In Britain. Two hundred mannequins stepped to soft music and o\c.r 1000 buyers attended the opening, the groat majority being men. It is expected that .'IO,OOO will attend from all pads of the world during the fortnight's show. English designers declare that the new silhouette for autumn, winter and early spring is definitely fixed. Slim lines, Lhey say, are old-fashioned, and the Princess figures of other days will be the mode. Waists will be worn slightly above the normal waist-line. In skirts the short-in-front and long-al-back fashion will prevail, and knees will lie invisible. Evening gowns will have fish-tail trains, plain in front, and decorative at the back. Black and white, separately and together, will he much worn, and favoured materials will include chiffon, lace and velvet. Bustles, bows,' and frills, too, will reign again. Cleopatra helmets have displaced the cloche, but another type or hat is described as "combed coconut." .Many winter styles will be trimmed with fU'V There has been a great revival of Scottish and West of England tweeds. It is affirmed that this material need no longer only serve for sports clothes. Combined with fur, if is being used by a number of noted frock houses. Buyers from Holland and Germany are especially interested in sports wear. It is stated that London is now undoubtedly the world's fashion centre, not only for Englishwomen, hut for those of other nations as well. Many have given up Paris to turn to London. It is equally emphasised that the days of Eton crops and flat boyish figures arc over. Eton cropped mannequins are not engaged, and curves have displaced straight lines. In fact, one designer says that modern girls may be enforced to wear padding. They also say that they have great trouble in getting mannequins suitable for the clothes they display.