Strives are ce of flits frock: Hack 4 are used to advantage in the noyed den nei for the: light" weight lady. dest lade ERE up the walis. Chestnut trees in full bloom were other reminders that May had begun. si Music with the Fashions There were fewer extravagant fashions seen on/opening night of the 1939 Covent Garden Opera Season than for years past. This, however, might be explained by the adverse critic of today's fashions by the fact that we arg becoming hardened to freak modes, The most unusual dress ensenible of this first-night was a wide crjholine dresss caught up in the front/by a bunch of gardenias to show a /frou"frou of petticoats and a knee-high pair of kid boots!
But music seems to be the right accompaniment to startling fashions. At th¢ opera, not a few members of the audience gazed in fascination at the crinoline, peeping petticoat and kid boots while they listened to Mr. Ričard Tauber singing the leading role in Smetana's "Bartered Bride." A/few days before, visitors to the mid-season show at one of the most famous of Paris fashion houses heard snatches of Mendelssohn, the "Blue Danube" and "Little Old Lady" as (he mannequins paraded.
No great tenor was singing to them end there was no radio in the room. But musical boxes were hidden in ihe crowns of hats worn by the mannequins, in their handbags—shaped like concertinas or pianos—and in the buckles of their evening dresses. These were the latest creations of Schiaparelli, who was presenting her collection.
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