QUEEN’S NEW FASHION

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20718, 31 January 1939, Page 3

QUEEN’S NEW FASHION

With Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth visited the exhibition of embroideries and needlework arranged by the Royal School of Needlework at Sir Philip Sassoon’s London home at 45 Park Lane. The Queen was wearing a fullskirted coat of black velvet, trimmed with bands of Persian lamb. The same trimming was used on the upstanding brim of her black halo hat. Pearls gleamed at the neck of Her Majesty’s plain black gown. The Duchess of Kent, ever prominent in British fashions, was seen at the premiere of a theatre the other night with an intriguing new coiffure in which her hair was coiled on top of her head. Her penchant for Edwardian fashions was again in evidence for she had a small black velvet throat band with a minute bow in the nape of her neck. She wore long black velvet glove*; and on each wrist a magnificent five strand pearl bracelet. Madame Bruyere, the well-known Parisian designer, still remains faithful to quilting her dresses. A particularly successful model is in dull black jersey. The skirt is almost entirely quilted, the corsage is slightly draped and over it is w’orn a short full bolero which Is also quilted.