Velvet wraps dominate fashion anew in velvet glamour
Rich fashion critique by Cherie Nicholas highlights velvet wraps as a season centerpiece for day and night wear. Descriptions cover Schiaparelli and Vionnet designs, ornate capes with fur and rhinestones, reversible velvet coats, and dramatic accessories, noting bold colors, metallic buttons, and practical ermine linings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schiaparelli
Vionnet
Che Parisiennes
Milady
Paris
Western Newspaper Union
Velvet Velvet Velvet: 1920s Fashion Velvet News
Velvet is noted for afternoon wear and glamorous evening gowns. Designers Patou Jodell Maggy Rouff Worth Heim Schiaparelli feature velvet in varied forms from erect pile to wool back velvets and brocaded, ribbed, or changeable velvets for tailleurs and dresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patou
Jodell
Maggy Rouff
Worth
Heim
Schiaparelli
Designers Embrace Purple Across Fashion Effects
Designers adopt purplish tones in fabrics and silhouettes. Rochas blends purplish red with black for Pompeian inspiration. Maggy Rouff ranges from dark to red violet. Mainbocher uses fuchsia while Jodelle offers Parma violet. Purple influences blue shades, with Patou introducing Iris a mauve blue mix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochas
Maggy Rouff
Mainbocher
Patou
Jewelry Designed for Wear With Sweaters
As sweaters remain top styles, new jewelry blends with wool outfits. A flexible beaded bangle uses woven colored beads and Hawaii brown koa seeds. Pearls appear in tailored bracelet designs for woolly sports clothes, with gold and silver accents and artificial stones in cobalt blue green ruby and wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Dinner Wear by Cherie Nicholas
Ethel Sbutta, a popular singer and noted dresser, models a velvet gown suited for dinner or evening wear. The costume features a trick neckline, short puffed sleeves, and a slim pencil silhouette. Paris reports favor slender lines with back fullness, as the gown shows.
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Ethel Sbutta
Paris
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