Spring fashions are to be definitely cheerful. It is to be colour, colour all the way, with a bright red shade the first favourite. Few new shades have war names for the war atmosphere is being avoided as much as possible in fashion. The British Colour, Council flew a range of the new dress colours to Australia a week ago and American manufacturers are looking to London for guidance on colour fashions, The four-colour suit is to be a spring novelty. For instance, a purple skirt, a primrose blouse, a blue short coat and a white topcoat will be perfectly smart. And it will not be wrong to wear with such a ensemble a forage cap of flowers of all four colours.
Sashes are a most useful dress accessary for cheering up any kind of frock. So, of course, sashes are to the front of the fashion scene. A woman takes away with her for a week-end holiday one dress but many sashes. With them she changes her one dress into three. The one dr is probably a perfectly plain afternoon frock with a little band of double tulle to lighten the neckline and a hem consisting of a score and more little godets, separately fitted, swinging just below the knee.
This may be worn with a plain tailóred belt or cord sash for the luncheon party, a pastel-coloured tulle or satin sash for the afternoon, while a lame sash turns it into a wartime evening gown.
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