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A PAGE FOR WOMEN
British Fashions And Fabrics
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Probably
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collection of No sooner had the first samples louse,
of materials been submitted to the designers than time bombs necessitated a hasty exit from headquarters. The samples had to be left to any fate that might overtake them for ten days.
fashion clothes has ever before been designed under such strange and strenuous conditions as the dresses which are included in the show of gowns from London to be shown in Buenos Aires and Rio, San Pao and Monte Video.
1ts history goes back to last year, soon after France fell.
come.
There were some who thought that the end of all high-class dressmaking had
Even dress designers with international reputations and branch houses in London were dubious about the future of the dress industry in London.
on
with
They had always relied France for the materials which to express their best ideas. Was it possible, they wondered. to And British manufacturers able and willing to cooperate in producing the
right kind of fashion fabrics,
The manufacturers said, in ef- fert, "only tell us and we'll sup- ply it."
care
matching gloves. and buttonhole. This particular model is a good example of the given to accessories. The buttons on the coat are in the form of watches, the belt a curb watch chaiq, with a watch replacing a buckle. Blue flannel is used for a blazer coat with a striped dress. A loose white flannel coat with squared shoulders, soft revers of beaver fur, and box lid pockets can be worn with anything you By this time the bombing of please.
1 London was at its height.
High explosive bombs led to further delay. Samples rescued from debris in new quarters were taken to another home.
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Cotton comes high on the fist Designers met, materials were of fashion fabrics. Experts have chosen to the accompaniment of given special attention to the wailing sirens, the roar of bomb-design, texture and colouring of ers overhead, the noises of ex- cotton materials. You meet them as evening gowns, brightly tailored suits printed, as smart with wide revers of washing grosgrain,
afternoon as snappy dresses, as garden frocks, or as a sinartly sophisticated beach out-
By Corisande
ploding bombs. And finally it was found that many of the fabrics chosen had been destroyed in the interval by enemy action.
fit.
It's interesting
that to hear well-known artists, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and John Arm- Inevitably this involved fur-strong-close personal
friend of ther delays, the choosing of other Charles Laughton for
whom he fabrics. Interviews between has designed many sets-with dressmakers and manufacturers others equally gifted, may soon were held in strange places and
be cooperating to produce pat- at odd times.
terns and colours for cotton fashion materials. The fashions this a
collection
and fabrics were born
in in
The tailored cotton suits were
Her
Meantime His Majesty's Gov- ernment had decided that the time had come to recognise the importance of the fashion trade as a national industry. With the backing of the Government committee was set up to act as a beauty parlours, railway station among the models which liaison between the designers waiting rooms, public-houses, Majesty the Queen specially ad- who had been asked to work on cellars and restaurants. amongmired when she inspected some the collection, and the export other unlikely places. Shoes, of the models in this collection at groups through whom all gloves, handbags, belts, hats, Buckingham Palace before they materials were to be supplied. were discussed under equally left for South America.
difficult conditions. The results you can judge for yourselves.
It was the first time that the nine model houses, Norman Hart- nell, the Queen's dressmaker, Tweeds and fine wools, rayons, Capt. Edward Molyneux, whose the beauty of which we are only models are known all over the now learning fully to appre- world, Peter Russell, Worth, clate, satins, jerseys, linens and Paquin, Victor Stiebel, Digby cottons are being shown. Morton, Creed, who came to London when Paris fell, and La Chasse, had worked for one col- lection.
Then wartime difficulties came along to slow down progress.
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(Reissued by The Mel? Syndiente, 1st.)
The day young blađe says If I' weren't for the bræas but- tons on the uniform, army life would the compistety minus"
Daytime dresses, with one or two exceptions, follow trim straight lines.
Evening gowns show wider dif- ferences in style.
There's a Spanish flavour In Great Britain we've always, about an evening dress of white been rather proud of our tweeds
spotted muslin with. two black and woollen materials; of our lace flounces on its wide spread- reputation as specialists in slick, clean-cut tailormade suits.
ing skirt, and its black lace cape, the hood of which is caught with a flower above the forehead.
Lace is used for slim, clinging gowns with ground length skirts. Frequently it is the background for embroidery in Jewel-coloured crystals at the neck, on long sleeves, sometimes on the bodice
These new wartime materials are better, from a fashion stand- point anyhow, than any yet pro- duced, and equal, the designers themselves admit, to any that came from France. They are the result of repeated experiments. New feather-weight tweeds are made from fine quality yarns in and skirt. soft pastel shades, as well as in
Simple elegance is illustrated brighter colour mixtures. Some in every line of a bright red are as fine and light as wool rayon dress. The coat is loose and crepes, and are, in fact, intended, knee length. It is worn with a for use as dress fabrics.
gold turban and n' specially de-
Women In the Shetland Islands signed gold necklet. have produced tweed soft as
A
On the whole I think South
: Net sprinkled with sequins, cashmere. The men formerly emi-rich duchess satin, rayon pat- ployed in the Industry are interned in pastel shades, velveteen trawlers, in mine sweepers, or our most successful cotton engaged in other hazardous war-material-used in black for time service.
jewel embroidered evening cloak, with gloves similarly decorated, Next to tweeds" come the are other fabrics the designers flannels, in high favour this year have used for evening dress
soft to the touch, cool to weer. purposes. Both are used for suits with slim. fitting or pleated skirts, with coats that fit snugly round the Americans will agree with me
is a reprü hips, or hang loose and straight that the collection from the shoulder. There's plenty šentative one. British designers, of variety and plenty of colour, probably more than any others If not in the material itself, then in the world, are forced to design Introduced in the form of a shirt clothes for people of a wide or sweater in a contrasting variety of Interests and view- colour: Green, yellow, and red are points. Their skill in doing this blended in one material used for is well demonstrated in the a buit; again a violet wool is models they have created for this shown with an orchid-coloured” collection..
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