“FIT LIKE GLUE.”

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18642, 21 May 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)

“FIT LIKE GLUE.”

LONDON CLOTHES. OROYSAY ARRIVALS. “Fashionable women in London are as thin as laths, and wear their clothes fitting them like glue,” said Mrs Claude Macdonald, of Wantabadgery West, Wagga, who returned to Australia from London by the Oronsay recently, brimming Over with news from the other side. Mrs Macdonald who wore a beauti-fully-cut frock of tobacco brown repp with a three-quarter military cape* trimmed with a wide cravat of musquash fur, said that everything is new this season in London, evening frocks being particularly startling. « London is rapidly emptying itself of Sydney people, according to Mrs Macdonald, who travelled to Sydney with her husband and Miss Cherie Gordon, who was greeted by her sisters, Mrs George Macartbur Onslow, and Mrs A. J. Warry, after seven years’ absence in London.

“All the famous French houses,, including Molynr-aux, are opening shops in London,” said Mrs Macdonald, “but none of them can compare with yie fashion salon of Mr Victor Stiebel, a youthful Cambridge undergraduate, who has acquired fame in one short season among London’s smartest women for the individuality of his fashion des ; gns.”

Dario Sybil Thorndlko.

The most popular people on board, until the/ disembarked at Fremantle, were Mr ind Mrs Lewis Casson; the latter is the famous Dame Sybil Thorndike. They were accompanied by their theatrical company, which include 4 two we 11-known, Australian girls— Miss Phyllis Best, daughter of Sir Robert Best, of Melbourne, and Miss ifathleen Robinson, daughter of Mrs Matthew Robinson, a niece of the late Samuel McCaughey. Both gins are well-known in Sydney social and theatrical circles, and will be seen lat'.r in their tour in Shaw’s “Saint Jr an,” the famous production which Lame Sybil Thorndike has already imnortalised on the London stage. Mr .Martin Harvey, son of the famius Sir John Martin Harvey, is also a nember of the company. Two other well-known arrivals .vere Mrs K. A. Donkin and Mrs E. Busby, who have returned after two years spent in England and on the Jontinent, to make their home in Sydney. •

A pair of smartly frocked young people were the Misses Jean and Rissie Hunter, who returned from a holiday trip to Colombo. The latter was particularly smart in a navy repp coal frock which had a narrow shoulder capo trimmed with musquash fur. They were chaperoned by their parents, Mr and Mrs John Hunter,