The Irish Fashion Group, with more than two dozen members, will be showing at Futura Fair in the RDS from next Sunday to Tuesday.
This is the biannual event that fashion buyers swarm to see and, if the Irish group is anything to go by, they are in for some very pretty surprises for next spring and summer.
At a preview in the Bridge Gallery on Ormond Quay in Dublin, examples from each manufacturer were shown. And whether sporty, casual, classical or just plain glamorous, the style has shifted firmly towards the feminine.
Colours are of the softest - lilac, pale blue, jade and ivory holding their own against the more traditional khakis and black. Fabrics are featherweight, with some wonderful printed silk chiffon, georgette and organza.
Of course, there are linen and cotton, but even the practical is given interest by over-dyeing, embossing, embroidery and topstitching.
The ubiquitous trouser suit may feature, but in white linen and given a fitted jacket and side-fastening, as in Regine's offering, it becomes sensuously feminine.
Irish manufacturers excel in dressy clothing: frilled dresses with matching jackets (Max Pierre, Lucinda Grey, John Bentley), and in those neat little suits that grace all weddings (Water Colours, Derek Duffy Designs and Michel Ambers).
Yasmin and Zen, however, are different. Yasmin is great fun, with young candy-striped jackets and trousers. Zen does interesting things with sandblasted two-tone jeans.
With some exceptions, most Irish clothing manufacturers have their designs made abroad, in eastern Europe and the Far East.
We will increasingly see labels saying "Designed in Ireland" rather than made in Ireland.
But wherever the clothes are coming from the Irish Group is offering very high quality.