Australian Stitches

It’s the DRESS Daytime … Night time … Anytime!

When dresses move into the evening, they go in two distinctly different directions this season. On these two pages, we show a more classical turn, in long, lean but fluid shapes with a graceful ruby red satin knockout above. All the ornamentation you need is in the colour or the cut; David Tutera’s show-stopping waterfall of cascading tiers from a glimmering strapless bustier bodice on the facing page for is as ‘ornamented’ as it gets now. Those long, slinky satins and charmeuses also signal a return to the very glamourous ‘Hollywood’ looks from the ‘30s, as in the dress from ‘Archive’ collection, also on this page. Even though such looks are obviously very dressy and recall a very sophisticated movie star glamour, the line is still long, loose and easy enough to look modern … more long and easy evening looks on page 57.

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