The Well-Dressed Woman Is Never Self-Conscious
London,
smartest of women could wear it successfully.
FEW CRINOLINES
The woman who can forget her clothes once she has them on her back is either very well dressed or
There are not
many crinolines else she is the kind of woman who dresses in this collection. One of takes no interest in her appearance. the few is in black velvet with an Only the smartest and the dowdiest off-shoulder bodice. This gown is worn with a black ermine cape. A of clothes allow the wearer to be aslinky dress the colour of mustard without self-consciousness. The joy has a wide belt of bronze beads of wearing a dress which is perfect embroidered at the waist and is in every detail is that as soon as worn with a thigh-length jacket you put it on you need not give it bordered with crossed fox. A slim- another thought. If you have even fitting gun-metal satin gown has the slightest doubt about the cut bows of the satin down the front, or fit of the clothes you are wear- a deep narrow "V" decolletage at ing you cannot possibly forget them, the front and a high back. which is a nuisance and apt to spoil
of
one's pleasure. The models shown There are a large number in the two dress shows that I am dressy afternoon frocks. One in going to tell you about come under soft shiny black velvet has the nar- the heading of "Unself-conscious rowest insertion of black lace to Clothes."
outline the wide round yoke and the narrow hemline. Wide lace of Norman Hartnell's dress show in- the same sort is tied round the cludes a collection of fur models waist as a sash. The sleeves are designed exclusively by him, as well long and tight. This dress is worn as hats designed by him. The dinner with a tight-fitting broadtail jacket, suit sketched is called "Toreador," the sleeves of which are made of and is embroidered with dull gold. silver fox. The front of the jacket This embroidery is used on the is
also foxed. wide belt and on the front of the tiny squared bolero, and also to out- line the armholes of the black vel- vet blouse.
A black cloth dress trimmed with string-coloured braid and wood but- tons is worn with a buff-coloured wool jacket. Olive green, lime,
At the second dress show; last The little flat Toreador hat is not week I chose Eva Lutyen's, whose really necessary in fact only the collection is one of the best I have
frock.
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 31, 1988.
Black velvet dinner suit embroidered with dull gold. Without the bolero this ensemble becomes a dinner or informal dance
Gauzy shadow lace makes the pretty young girl frock, which has a wide, tight black satin belt accentuating the the waist line.
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With the bolero this dress is a mustard, tobacco, turquoise, Royal suit and without the bolero it turns blue and petunia are the smartest seen so far because the models are black plastic raspberries. The but- into a dinner or informal dance colours in the collection.
not only original but highly wear- tons of all the suits and coats are frock
able, and the colours are mixed hand-carved for this-house. superbly. Gauzy old-fashioned
A youthful day frock of fine shadow lace is used for the dress
material has a peasant's sketched, which is one of the pret woollen
peasant's tiest young-girl dresses imaginable. skirts and close-fitting The wide tight black satin belt jacket bordered with black velvet. accentuates the waist-line and The round yoke and sleeves of the shows off the fullness of the skirt. dress are also of velvet. The black afternoon coats are, on the whole, over full-length
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The two shoulder straps
each shoulder are made of
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the as the light cd close-fitting, where-
ruffled shadow lace threaded with generous lines.
coats are cut on A stone-coloured
satin ribbon, which is tied in bows coat of this description has the on the shoulders, and the bodice is armholes outlined with beaver and a gathered down the centre-front. stand-up beaver collar,
suit,
A cyclamen pink. lame evening,
cut on long, tailored lines, has a. close-fitting short jacket finished with a row of tassels at the neck and is worn with a tur- quoise blue chiffon shirt delicately ruffled
A black velvet evening dress with a wide skirt and heart-shaped bodice is worn with a tiny gold embroider- ed bolero, sleeveless but wide on the shoulders,
Coarse white.net makes a char ming dance frock with two V-shaped pieces of mother-of-pearl embroidery on each side of the bodice.. clover pink lame dress with fullness whatsoever from the bust- line to the hem is topped with puff- ed sleeves and a border smocking.
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Many of the day dresses have epaulette:* shoulder-lines. ̈ One black crepe frock has finely sheered. rosettes on the shoulders, and “.
is worn under a woollen.coat fastened with black plastic roses. A deep navy blue woollen suit has a Rus- sian coachman's collar, which gives a becomingly broan shoulder-line, the jacket is fastened ́with
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