PARIS—THE CITY OF CHIC WOMEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 33, 23 February 1937, Page 11

PARIS—THE CITY OF CHIC WOMEN

The city of chic women, where biacJi with white is always the mode — that is Paris. The Erench woman never tires of black, no matter what new colours are invented by Schiaparelli, or any of the creators of the modes of each season. Black reigns always supreme in the heart of the French woman, and in Paris one realisos why the French woman still •remains the smartest woman in the world. It is not because she has large quantities of clothes. She is of the economical type, thrifty in every way. Her secret of being well turned out is that she depends on the accessories which, to her, count for so mucb more than quantities of clothes. Hqr belt, gloves, bag, and shoes, must all be built around the lines of her gown. They must all tone or match. Then her hat. It may be some fool-ish-looking, eccentric piece of felt, or velvet, ojr a feather, but when she puts it on it becomes something chic or exotic.. She knows the exact angle to wear it. Perhaps one eye is hidden:

perhaps it is away back off her head. No matter what type of hat it is, she knows how to wear it, and how to get the best out of it. A hat to her is something to be adjusted to suit the face; not to be placed on for mere protection against sunshine Or Tain. There are no untidy wisps of hair hanging out. of place with madame 's coiffure. The Parisienne is also very particular about the way she walks, and is entirely outstanding in this respeet, for she hates a blase air and the English slouch. She likes to appear to have a purpose in life, she has cultivated the animated strut. Madame goes along, aiming to appear to be happy. and busy, and to have in her life an object in view. One does .not see bored faces in Paris. The neatness of the French woman; the smartness of her walk, the absence of a blase air, combined with the alertness of her manner, have all lielped in gaining for her the eredit of being leader in the world of fashion.