Shown below is part of Vogue Pattern No. 8129, an evening dress "with a redingote over an independent slip-dress". This is clearly the "slip dress"part of the design. A small illustration of the "redingote", made up in lace, is inside the magazine.
Back in my very first post for this year I mentioned the introduction of the first backless evening dresses during World War I. In they 1930s they were almost de rigueur in formal evening gowns, though they could be covered up by garments like the redingote included with this pattern.
All in all, there seems to have been quite a variety in evening fashions in 1938! The Australian Home Journal reports:
In the evening we see princess dresses with drapings that stress the wearer's slenderness; further, there come dresses which cling till the knees and then start into greater width; some skirts are slit and somewhat cut away in front, trailing at the back in a line, and there are also reminiscences of the Empire, the Directoire and the 1889 style.
Australian Home Journal, May 1938
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