SOME NEW NOTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 19

SOME NEW NOTIONS

While.we are enthusing over the Paris designers are way and their summer fashion shows an designs to start another fashionab.

Still "oh-ing" and "ah-ing" at some of the surprising changes our wardrobes will have to undergo to conform with up-to-date spring and summer styles, a lot of pur worries will seem hardly worth while when we look forward a few short months and see what treatment they have received at the hands of the great couturiers.

Now we are all agasp at the daring new dress lengths that hav^ shot up

above the knee for day wear. Too bad if you have cut all your hems 'shorter for this is just one of those trends doomed for failure from the! outset. Only the very young can wear them successfully so it won't be long till we are all back .o the more restrained fifteen or seventeen inches from the' ground skirts on 'c more. One designer actually advocates skirts of a new longer length that reach, below the turn bf the calf but this is ungainly on any but the slander. A fraction of an inch on a hem, as on the end of a nose, makes all the difference to the silhouette. . Therefore 'it is the safest plan to regulate them accordingly. For- sports wear; have your, hems higher than for more dressyfrocks., The usual street length for everyday clothes comes nicely over the knee, no more. ', DANCE DRESSES. Dance dresses still tip the floor all! round except with a few exceptions, as in the case of gipsy dresses, "which I may loop up to reveal the ankles in ,' front. The bustle dress gives a brush- < ing train effect at the back i:. contrast j jto the front hemline which just tips j I the toes. Dinner dresses, on the I other hand, are often shortened to reveal the whole foot, shoes and evening sandals being so exciting in themselves as to justify this\ attention. The bustle outline with its longI forgotten accent on hips comes into the mode by way of daytime dresses as well as evening gowns. ' Softly draped pannier effects, flanges of fluted frills at' the back of a waist, accentuated peplums and exaggerated bows give this suggestion in its modern guise.' CRINOLINES CONTROVERSIAL. Whereas we are now so interested in the crinoline gown to the exclusion of almost any other evening style, by the end of this season it will be the exception x-ather than the rule. Young girls will doubtless continue to- wear the romantic bouffant fashions so typi- j ca! of youth but the. fashion-wise j woman will be turning to gipsy styles for her gayer moments or to the j classic simplicity of a sequinned sheath of an Empire gown with irresistible trailing scarves, or the sleek draped dress with its mixture of Grecian and Indian inspiration in classic folds and sari swathings.

PARIS DRESS AND HAIR STYLE NEWS

the first, of the new season's styles. ahead of us already, rounding off d bringing forth fresh stocks oi' le winter season on its way.

Pleating continues in.frocks that are Grecian in aspect while capes carry out the sweetly feminine viewpoint in fashion. NEW COIFFURES. Hair styles in Paris effect a compromise between the up coiffures and :the down, by moulding hair in sleek rolls at the nape of the neck, chignon way, and drawing' it high off the ears to another sleek roll or a; series of fluffy' bangs over the-.-'forehead. I

This achieves the correct balance for almost all-of the cui'rent fashions but