HATS, BELTS AND SHOES AS WORN IN PARIS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 73, 13 April 1937, Page 12

HATS, BELTS AND SHOES AS WORN IN PARIS

X great deal of satin in soft but gay Colours — pink, blue, green, and a great deal of white — is seen. Tulle and laoe dresses worn over very slim underskirts, are deliglitful. The light lace • and tallo skirts, very full, over lightftoloured fonndations, give a lightness to the figure vrhich is charming. How easy it is to appear graceful in such dressfiS. They make small 'women I look taller and they give to tall women it gracionsness Which is really alluring. The Schiaparelli dresses and coats | With sequin triinnlings are evident 1 everywhere. The way Molyneux suggested for wearing flowers is also observed. Roses with lOxlg stems and green leaves and thrtlst under belts and sashes. And such gaudy belts as they are, all stud-

ded With jewels, embroidered so gfiandly. Everything, everywhere, sparkles and scintillates at night either "with jewels, eequins or beads. The hair is dressed rather fluffily on the top of the head, or it is demurely parted over a Madonna-like brow. A .few women wear what amounts to hats With thoir evening dresses. One in black velvet, has a big taffeta bow behind, which held the tiny crown in placfe and in front there is a big bunch of violets set in green leaves. Bright gloves are worn and some women carry muff bags made of velvet and fldwers. Brown furs are worn more than white and velvet and cloth co'ats are not trimmed with fur at all, but are richly lined with velvet or taffetas, and might have sequins on the shoulders. A dignified slippef -satin cbat in black looks very well over a White crepe dress trimmed with silver sequins. Black and White crepe shoeos are encrusted with Bilver and goid kid. Eor all the little woollen-and tweed Suits which are worn in Paris, there ittust be superlatively right accessorieS. Not only the bag, bnt the gloves. Hermes shOWs yellow doeskin with seam pipings of black kid and black Btitching. Again, thefe is a longer pair in biscuit coloured antelope, with the small finger of each glove in black antelope, the black skin is carried up the glove at the outer side and over the top edge of the glove 6n the arm, The stitching is in the colour of the glove. It is in such exciusive details that simple tailored suits are made to look expensive. From Henry a la Pensee, that home of novelties, there is an evening belt in gilt kid, It is bedifcened with encrusted Jeweis, imitatiftn Tubies, - diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, amethySts, topaz, all the trOasures of Pandora ^s casket. In front it ties with a gilt throng. Alongside it is shown a pair of even-

ing gloves in gilt leather, rather strong and very tailored in cut. These c'au also bo bought in silver leather. From Hergie there is a discreet afternoon bag in black antelope with a handle in patent leather which ends in a strawberry leaf, Dangling from it are three strawberries made of seed pearls. There is no clearer key to good dressing just now than the extreme eieganco of the accessorieS of the dress and tailormade. The dress and jacket mhy even be shabby, but if the shoes, gloves, hat, b.ag and belt are up to the Hermes and Henry a la Pensee standard, all is well. Shoes of sUede and antelope are still wofn, but frankly they are not very practical in winter afid W6t weather. Glace kid and patent leather Idok better and are easier to keep in order. When brown shoes are worn they need not be of the severely sport shanes.