Shoppers are guided by the fashion experts' advice that tulle for evening wear is for the very young, lace is for the not so young and velvet for everyone. Dress bodices for all ages and all occasions have fullness drawn down from the shoulders and finely gathered into a fitted "diaphragm belt," but with an upward point at the centre.
'There is a satisfactorily wide choice of dress decoration. Softest suède, in pastel colours, finds a new use as shoulder straps on' evening gowns. leather buttons and buckles are trimmings, as well as pipings, insertions and appliques of cut-out. suède. Flower-shaped pockets are seen on spring coats and as a change from pearls, a single line of brilliants is worn over the high neck of a black day frock.
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