1941-06-19 — Page 11

By George MacManus

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

British Fashions And Fabrics

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of. No sooner had the fashion clothes has ever before of materials been been designed under such strange the designers than and strenuous conditions as the necessitated a hasty exit from dresses which are included in headquarters. The samples had to the show of gowns from London be left to any fate that might to be shown in Buenos Aires and overtake them for ten days. Rio, San Pao and Monte Video.

its

history goes back to last year, soon after France fell.

There were some who thought that the end of all high-class dressmaking had come. Even dress designers with international reputations and branch houses ini London were dubious about the (uture of the dress industry in

London.

They had always relied France

with the materials for which to express their best ideas. Was it possible, they wondered, į

to

find

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matching first samples blouse.

and gloves, submitted to, buttonhole. This particular model time bombs is a good example of the care given to accessories. The buttons on the coat are in the form of watches, the belt a curb watch chain, with a watch replacing a buckle. Blue flannel is used for a blazer cont with a striped dress, A loose white flannel coat with squared shoulders, soft revers of beaver fur, and box ld pockets can be worn with anything you

High explosive bombs led to further delay. Samples rescued from debris in new quarters were taken to another home.

By this time the bombing of please. London was at its height.

the

Cotton comes high on the list Designers met, materials were of fashion fabrics. Experts have

attention to chosen to the accompaniment of

Riven special wailing sirens, the roar of bomb-design, texture and colouring of ers overbead, the noises of ex-

cotton materials. You meet them evening gowns, brightly printed, as smart tailored suits with

washing revers of grosgrain, as snappy afternoon dresses, us garden frocks, or as a Smartly sophisticated beach out-

By Corisande

able and willing to cooperate in ploding bombs. And finally It was producing the

kind of found that many of the fabrics right

chest had heen destroyed in the fashion fabrics.

interval by enemy action,

Lo

fit.

wide

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-

terns and

for cotton at odd times.

colours tashion materials.

The manufacturers said, in ef- feet, only tell us and we'll sup- ply it."

Meantime is Majesty's Gov- had decided that the eriment time had come recognise the importance of the fashion trade

The fashions and fabrics as a national industry. With the

a this backing

collection were born of the Government

The tailored cotton suits were beauty parlours, railway station

Her committee was set up to act as a

the models which among between liaison

the designers waiting

public-houses, Majesty the Queen specially ad- rooms, who had been asked to work on cellars and restaurants, among mired when she inspected some the collection, and the export other unlikely places. Shoes, of the models in this collection at

through whom all, gloves, handbags, belts, groups

hats, Buckingham Palace before they materials were to be supplied,

discussed under equally left for South America. difficult conditions. The results

were

It was the first time that the you can judge for yourselves. nine model houses, Norman Hart-

in

in

Daytime dresses, with one or two exceptions, follow trim nell, the Queen's dressmaker, Tweeds and fine wools, rayons, straight lines. Capt. Edward Molyneux, whose the beauty of which we are only |

fully models are known all over the now learning

to appre- Evening gowns show wider dif- world, Peter Russell, Worth, clate, satins, jerseys, lipens and ferences in style. 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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The gay young blade says if. It waren't for the brass but- tons on the uniform, army life be completely, minus spark:62

There's

flavour ઈ Spanish 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, ing skirt, and its black lace cape, clean-cut tailormade suits.

the hood of which is caught with a flower above the forehead.

These new wartime materials are better, from a fashion stand-

Lace is used for slim, clinging point anyhow, than any yet pro- gowns with ground length skirts. duced, and equal, the designers Frequently it is, the background themselves admit, to any that came from France. They are the for embroidery in jewel-coloured crystals at the neck, on long result of repeated experiments.

sleeves, sometimes on the bodice New feather-weight tweeds are made from fine quality yarns in and skirt. soft pastel shades, as well as in brighter colour mixtures, Some are as fine and light as wool crepes, and are, in fact intended for use as dress fabrics.

Women in the Shetland Islands

Simple elegance is illustrated in every line of a bright red rayon dress. The coat is loose and knee length. It is worn with a gold turban and a specially de- signed gold necklet.

have produced tweed soft að Net sprinkled with sequins, cashmere. The men formerly em-rich duchess satin, rayon pat- ployed in the industry are in terned in pastel shades, velveteen trawlers, in mine sweepers, or

most successful cotton" engaged in other hazardous war-material-used in black for á time service.

jewel embroidered evening cloak, with gloves similarly decorated, Next to tweeds come

the designers the are other fabrica flannels, in high favour this year have used for evening dress -soft to the touch, cool to wear, gurposes, Both are used for suits with slim fitting or pleated skirts, with On the 'whole I think South conts that fit smugly round the Americans will agree

with me hips, or hang loose and straight that the collection is a repre- from the shoulder. There's plenty scntative 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 sult; again a violet wool is models they have created for this shown with an orchid-coloured collection!

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