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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 5 (September 1, 1933)

Spring Fashions

Spring Fashions.

The soft green of new willow leaves, the blue of a rain-washed sky, the pale gold of the first daffodil and the pink of peach-blossom have been carried into the shops this spring—hidden in large, ugly, wooden cases. But they have not remained hidden. Bolts of silks and cottons have spilled their soft beauty near the dressgoods counters, and frocks, dainty and flower-like as spring itself, are ousting winter from the show-rooms.

Smartness, in black and white, or in any shade from beige to brown, is fingering the new materials and buying dress-lengths to be made up for those first days of spring. Our long winter certainly gives us time to plan and prepare our summer wardrobes, especially as the shops so obligingly give their showings of new spring-goods in what we consider still the dead of winter. But the spring flowers aren't minding the weather.

We will continue to wear our browns and blacks and greys and our splashes of vivid colour for some weeks to come, but the spring fabrics we are buying now, while the choice is so varied, will be an absolute contrast in colour and texture. Fashion decrees pastel tints for spring, pale lemon, shellpink, sky-blue, nil and white—no bright colours such as we wore last season.

The new cotton materials are lovely. Organdies appear in plain and crinkled effects, in pastel shade, or patterned with dainty floral designs or checks. Cotton georgettes, pique voiles, hair-cord muslins—all have the same soft colourings and small floral designs or checks and plaids. An exquisite fabric is embroidered organdie.

In preparing your wardrobe for the summer, don't forget beach and tub frocks in sturdier cotton fabrics such as tobralco, which appears in charming designs this season.

For present wear, to cheer up your winter suit, make a blouse of floral-patterned cotton georgette. Unless you prefer to be very tailor-made, choose a blouse style featuring a bow or bows: These dainty accessories are going to rule the coming season which will be a “fussy” one as regards the more dressy frocks. Bows will be everywhere or anywhere—at the neck or waist of frocks, front or back, accentuating the sleeves, or (most becoming of all) falling as a sash-tie with bustle effect.

Scarves tie beneath the chin or on the shoulder. Hat styles are legion. The small varieties must all be worn at a jaunty angle. Smart sailor shapes are popular. There are whispers of picture-hats of the garden-party variety to be worn with fullskirted organdies and swiss-muslins in mid-summer.

Let's not be gay this spring, but fresh, and flower-like and feminine.

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