TIGHT SKIRT ERV

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1920, Page 3

TIGHT SKIRT ERV

GORGEOUS PARIS FASHIONS. PARIS, Feb. 10. Gorgeous colours, expensive materials, a.'-id great simplicity of line are the features of the Paris shows of fashion models for British and American buyers . The opponent of tight lacing may he reassured. No model of the Paris dressmakers demands any but the natural waist. Corsets are practically unneces-

sarv. Vivid blues and -greens apd pinch gfdd and silver cmbiyidyry form a da-.Ming velour effect for both walking and evening dresses. Tailor-mades are very smart, particularly of a beautiful b'up, embroidered materia). Skirls are cut a shade longer than last, year, but on the other hand much narrower. Indeed, some models I saw were so narrow that one wonders how their fair wearers will be able to step into a- motor-car or yya\k upstairs. Evening, and dinner gowns include a few examples of panniers and crinolines, though the general style was either Grecian or Oriental drapery. Some evening gowns display silken tr-oiu sens under the filmy laye cyei'skivt, hut it is not thought that these will find favour fur the ordinary buyer. Straight silk underslips will be substituted for the harem skirt in most cases. 1 Air Mnlyneux, the British designer, had an effective display of spring and summer fashions this afternoon. Tailor 1 mailes of embroidered material, with, their straight skirts and half to threequarter long coats,„ looked extremely individual. Leather trimming- is used for many of tbesy, summer walking costumes, and one white summer tailormade had a coat entirely of white kid, ornamented with grey leather braid and with a corsage of white silk with hand embroidery, which also formed the lining of the eoat. The corsages shown by Mr Molvneiix bad a pronounced, bnHiing-suit effect. Colours and drapery were the notes of the evening gowns, tine was a shimmering creation of liquid gold, draped round the figure from the shoulders in pure Grecian lines, with a broad led gold veil or wrap floating loosely behind and forming the basis of the corsage. The decollates were not pronounced except in seine in the back. Another evening dross with a crinoline was a plain white draped with scintillating silver gau/.e. heavily silver embroidered overskirt stiffly wired out. around the waist-line. It presented fi distinctly Pavlova effect.