DRESS UP AND DANCE!

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21155, 3 July 1940, Page 3

DRESS UP AND DANCE!

Make the Most of the Opportunity

The injunction to “dress up and dance” is akin to that other modem dictum, “wake up and live,” for both are inducements to be more zestful and opportune. To get the best out of life, one must

Nowadays the opportunities for dressing up and dancing are not so frequeni as they were a year ago ana there is the growing possibility that they will become increasingly few. So, take the hint and make much of those opportunities of the moment! Dress up to make the most of every dancing second. Dress up in finery as you have never done before! This is no time to put off having the dress of your dreams until next season or later. This is the time to have it. Now! Let it be something really grand so that your partners cannot fail to see that you have dressed to look your loveliest. They will be flattered that you should have done that for them. And, after all, it is not such a very big thing to do for the pleasure it gives. No doubt you will be dancing with soldiers, airmen, or sailors who are all* actively training to fight to a victory that will make it possible for their womenfolk to go on dressing attractively and looking their best with the threat of serfdom under Nazi domination removed forever. Dance dresses of inspiring loveliness are those that are fragile and greamy in breathtakingly airy fabrics that are a swirling mist in mo-

tion. like the costumes of Les Sylphides brought up to date. Full, frothy skirts in heavenly pale flower tints are topped by star-spangled bodices, or satin ones, or by sharply contrasting velvet ones. Colours for dashing evening gowns are bright and gaudy. There is a new yen for yellows, emeralds, and scarlets while many swear new allegiance to the red, white, and blue colour scheme which is one of the most rewarding and becoming of all The bright colours lend themselves very well to those dancing suits that are very new and dressed-up looking albeit they have covered decolletages and rather tailor-made details. A gimmetal moire skirt goes with a blazing flannel blouse for one such suit. Peacock green makes a full harem-draped skirt to match up with a bolero jacket of the same that tops a stark white brassiere bodice. The brassiere bodice will be a new fashion if it appears in this country, although it has already been ipuch worn in Sydney and New York. It follows the lines of the swim suits that leave a gap at the waistline and is admittedly a style that only the most daring will appear in.