The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-17

I y out have achieved minor mir acles. They have still a long way to go, but the step for ward has been a long one. At the end of the war a great discovery was suddenly made by large numbers of women on this island. They heard of a town called Paris, and began to go there and buy things. They came home and gave their horrible velour hats best Manchester make ito their charladies and stepped out in creations. It became a habit.
 STYLES INFLUENCED
 BY AMERICAN MOVIES
 At about the same time hun dreds of new motion picture houses began to appear through out the land. These theaters have continued to increase. Most of them have exhibited American films exclusively, and girls began to notice what they were wearing in Hollywood. The bobbed hair fashion did the rest. Before the days of short hair Englishwomen hardly ever knew what to do with their hair, so they just didn't do it. They let it stray, and blew it out of their eyes if it impaired their vision. There you have the three chief reasons for the better dressed English girls of to-day:-the war. which brought closer acquaint- ance with Paris, American films and the short hair fashion.
 Now of course there were well turned out women here, and al- ways have been. In Boadicea's time some of the Briton girls must have caught more than one Roman eye With the artistic fashion in which they daubed on the blue mud. Now and then at Ascot, at the royal courts, at the theater of a house party English women as- tonished themselves and the on- lockers. They have always looked well in the uniform of the hunting field, and the shooting tweeds wo- ven in Scotland and the islands of the north always had an air of being the real thing, which they were.
 MOLYNEUX ENGLAND'S
 GIFT TO FASHION WORLD
 And then certain Lady Duff Gordon began to do things with nj r1ly e, ,via .,, don house she operated under the trade name of Lucille. Lucille be- came a name to stir the feminine heart in many countries. The Lu- cile touch was world famous.
 The Lucille mannequins were farmed out to Ziegfeld and mar rled princes and millionaires, and for time Lucille, in the person of Lady Duff Gordon, rode the crest of the wave. There was also in the house of Lucille a young fellow who had more than a knack with pair Of shears and mouthful of pins. He could drape piece of goods on a slim figure in. a way that made Paris begin to look slightly envious. His name was Edward Molyneux, French name, buI AlS lo 4IilS AASAls 1IC CdLlc Oub of the war a captain in the Brit ish army and staked every penny he could lay his hands to on a dressmaking establishment in Paris. Park Avenue and Mayfair know the rest of that story.
 Molyneux is a great name to-day in the story of haute couture. His line is famous wherever clothes of 6ictinnfinn ch Paris something. For time Eng Molyneux clothes were obliged to go to Paris for them. To-day Molly neux is established in London. He is perhaps the greatest artist in line of his time.
 RENOWNED FOR STAGE DRESS CREATIONS
 Another young Englishmsn whose clothes have attracted at tention in recent years is Norman Hartnell. He achieves wonders with tall girls, particularly tall actresses, and his stage dresses in black and silver, or black and white, or black and gray are lovely things to see and wear.
 The Honourable Mrs John Rus sell had a vogue here in the late 1920's with her creations and is still gowning many fashionable women.
 Reville, Ltd, design and produce clothes which seems to suit the English taste which is ever con- servative rather than creative. The The Reville workrooms are per haps the largest in England, and are particularly in demand for cos-