The great dressmakers of Paris are tolling. us quite frankly why. they don't want us to wear etinolines any more, They hope the very wide skirted mode is declining and they fare qoing to do their best during the coming months to turn women's attention to other styles. The reason for much loss of interest in the cri-no line, 50 far ax Paris is concerned, this. "Tt is now held that the wide skirted dross is easy to make, The style in itself Is so arresting that no, one bothers to look for subtlely of out or invention in its lines.
'A good straight skirt, onthe con 'y, looks so. simple that the eye ges in every detail of its line, And this is what the great dressmakers refer. 'They want us to exclaim, What a beautiful cut that skirt has' jane" not, "Now exciting that frock Tooks.... You know, T think T could niet the same effect myself if T use plenty of material..."
The dressmakers realize, of course that they can't wean Women's interest away from. the crinoline and all-skirted modes. Immediately. The Weaning process will be done very gradually. In Autumn Collections. we shall be shown some full skirts in many of these models, the full ness will begin very low, below the knees, Then, there will be a number of quite new designs in frocks where What fullness there Is will be carried out by means of draperies. The "apron" drapery will be mich used og. will the long corsage, brought down in soft folds to the knees. One thing is certain. Whereas the erino-Une hid the figure, the new fashions will reveal {ts contours, After her confirmation in Easter, 1942, the Princess will attend her first ball, various State banquets and other official engagements. Bul fur ther plant have already been made for her future. In the sine year she will probably go on an Empire tour. A visit to Australia is already being discussed and this is quite ike ly to be her first official act atter An Empire tour in the early future thought necessary to the Princess's education, "It is easy to sce the magnitude of the task confronting, those responsible for her training Worldly knowledge is essential 10 9 fulure sovereign. Princes can ae: quire' this by Joining the Navy ie Army. But Princess Elizabeth must be given this education in other ways.
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