"An Adventurous Frame of Mind"
Wool for all hours of the day and night was the theme of a fashion parade sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat at Claridge's Hotel, London, recently.
Dr. Clunies Ross, in an opening speech, said that the fashion show was the first step in a great forward movement to convince not only the wholesalers and retailers, but the general public, that the wool industry today was in an adventurous frame of mind.
The editor of "Vogue" had selected a number of models for the coming winter season from representative wholesale fashion houses, and these were shown in the new autumn colours and also in plaids atid checks used with skill and in some instances h a certain amount of humour for practical garments. Buyers from the leading retail houses were present at the parades.
Evening gowns and dinner gowns j[showed unexpected ideas in the uses Of wool: an evening dress in a rich deep blue wool jersey and a coat of pink wool with the roll back sleeves repeating the blue was attractive. dark blue wool jersey dinner dress had a bolero in hydrangea wool. A black wool jersey short-sleeved dinner dress had a necklace design it. gold leaf inset embroidery and there was a charming frock in smudge-grey wool with a low corseletted waistline and a purple belt.
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