The Gazette

So was it all because of the changing style in party frocks for the debutante. No longer can her evening dresses be pulled on over the head in a "jiffy." Modern gowns fit too snug for that. The call of the evening mode is for long slender molded-to-the-form bodices, with low-placed and extreme flares. Consequently most dresses now open at the side and must be "hooked up" or fastened along the underarm seam in some ingenious way.

Only the slender, the svelte and the youthful can triumphantly wear these new-type molded-bodice frocks. They surely belie the rumor that curves are coming back. She who would be lovely in frocks of this genre must, perforce, "keep on keeping on" with a dieting program. It's worth all the self-sacrifice, however, for the new silhouettes with their slenderized bodices which are skirted with billowy fullness are to the eye most entrancing.

Satin forms alliance with tulle for the majority of these frocks—if not tulle then some equally as sprightly thin material such as stiffened chiffon or dotted net or handsome lace.

The winsome frock in the picture uses flesh color satin for its bodice. The matching tulle for the skirt poses one layer over another, the pointed hem line of each outlined with silver threadwork.

Not infrequently taffeta instead of satin fashions the bodice. Then again all-over embroidered and beaded materials are media for the more elaborate types. However, such de luxe effects detract somewhat from the supreme youthfulness of simple tulle and satin or taffeta.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

(©, 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)