LE TOUQUET AT LAST

NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 3

LE TOUQUET AT LAST

Fish Scale Bathing Suit and Wondrous Evening Frock GEORGETTE ANDTaCE AT THE RACES

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Parisienne . Correspondent.) Here is the usual breezy letter from that amusing lady, Charmian, our Paris correspondent, who has attained her Mecca at last — Le Touquet — of which resort she has much to write.

Odds and ends of social doings dealing with the mighty and the not-so-mighty all come in for comment from the cheerful one, and, of course, she does not neglect to add a page or two on the all-important subject of clothes. In fact, on the last subject, her range is of the widest, extending from the latest in bathing costumes as shown by the mannequins at Le Touquet, to a georgette froc\ worn at the Casino.

Ma Cherie Amie, Here I am at Le Touquet after being disappointed twice, although it meant Ceauville. If the famous Deauville is the rendezvous of all that is rich and exotic, Le Touquet can compare very favorably, for it has a certain air of distinction and good taste, which are sometimes lacking in the other place. There is more elegance and refinement, more .poise. Prince Henry of England spent a weelf here at the Hotel Hermitage. He is a tall, serious youth, keen on sport and unassuming of manner. I saw him several times get out of his limousine in his bath-robe to walk down the beach for a dip.

He was initiated to the delights (or otherwise) of ■baccaret, and enjoyed the usual beginner's luck. But he'll never be a gambler, he's too steady, •which is just as well, I suppose, for Poppa and Momma's sakes. The Channel crossing has been appalling for some days past, and the English arrivals have generally been distinguishable by their peculiar greenish tinge of their complexions. ' The Rajah of Fudkota is staying at the Westminster Hotel. Such weather has not been experienced in England for years, and it has rained in London for 19 days without a break. Almost Biblical!

Phyllis Mayman, Neville Mayman's pretty daughter has secured a prize in •xs— !->>•«- j the matrimonial \, - V ! stakes. Her fi-

ance is Mr. Thomas Carew, only son of Sir Henry Carew, of Hacombe, Devon, and nhith baronet di an ancient line, amongst whose notable' members w a s Carew, ' "King of the Gypaies." Papa Neville resides in Cannes, where the climate is more merciful to gentlemen who indulge in rheumatism. T h e wedding is announced for next Saturday, an cl London society is much inter-

ested. Last Saturday we had a floral

festa, and it was beautiful. One would not think there were so many flowers in France. One enormous car representing- the Casino was in the shape of a huge aeroplane, Miss America^ and was one mass of red, white and blue flowers. Fashions here, although not quite as freaky, are very up-to-date, and the great firms of Paris are well represented. Of course the slim silhouette is THE thing, and a designer's every thought seems concentrated on making the female form more and more ethereal. Skirts are still very short and the waist-line fairly low.. - . The bathing costume competition brought forth some very striking ideas. Mannenuina "walked the plank" without any fear of the weather, which behaved badly.

One smart costume was of black faced with white, with a head scarf worn like a pirate, another costume's skirt consisted of baby frills, and one lovely gh«l wore

white taffeta, which looked very smart.

But the sensation of the morning was a beautiful figure on the beach, whose bathing costume, from ? to ?, consisted of fish scales made of iridescent spangles.

There are changes in the two-piece jumper suit. The pleated skirt has about played itself out, according to Chanel, who now counsels a rather plain narrow one, with a pleat or two on the side to impart the necessary width. Belts are narrow, and of the same material as the suit generally clasped by a buckle of colored stones.

Bathing Suits

A little tie falling from the pointed neckline is finished with a pin set with the same stones. At the races georgette and lace reign supreme. One black and white ensemble was of finely-pleated white georgette and black lace. The wide bell sleeves and Medici collar looked very graceful. Beige georgette and cafe au lait velvet ribbon comprised another costume, very demure, completed by a little crinoline hat trimmed with velvet of the same shade. Dyed lace of all colors is also worn, secured at the waist by a narrow belt of the same. The tops are long, sometimes very loose, accentuating- the slimness of the hips, and the skirts are generally flounced, with two or three tiers often diagonally, and fall much lower on one side in a long point.

At the Casino at night, in between gasps at the magnitude of the stakes, I had time to sketch an evening frock, -worn by an Englishe ladye fawfe.

It was of almond-green georgette and had a beautiful rhinestone embroidery at the decollete line. The flounces were effeed with crystal drops, and the underskirt was sewn with rhinestonas., She carried a feather fan of peacock blue and green.

Ostrich feathers in all sorts of trimmings are very popular, which makes the recent death of a lady ostrich at the London Zoo all the more deplorable, although it threw some light on male ostrich ways.

The poor thing died from want of discrimination in diet. She swallowed a button -hook and paid for her bad taste with her valuable life, much to the disquietude of . the zoo curator. For it appears thiat the male ostrich, amiable bird, at the death of one of his wives (he ALSO is;, a. polygamlst) usually conscientiously"; sets to, to kick to pieces the remainder, of his harem. But ostriches must-be-evolving, for in this oas&Jtje ..fefraineft^.i' "Which-reminds mctftat yesterday, on the proiiieinade, I saw" a widower, recently bereaved, for whose sanity at the death of his wife the worst fears were entertained; " As he-had-a wide black band on one arm, and a dizzy blonde on the other, I gathered that he was well- on the way to recovery. "Potiphar's Wife," sensation play, is the talk of London. The newspapers devote almost a column to it daily, and the unshooked are standing in queues with a view to being shocked. The main shock occurs in a scene where Lady Aylesford cuts the electric fan cord and rings for the chauffeur (good-looking, of course) to fix it. In the meantime, she,dons a pair of black lace pyjamas and awaits the lad in her most Potipharesque frame of mind. She offers him a cigarette . . . No, thank you. A drink? . . . No! Herself . . . No!!!! And several usually sober-minded gentlemen are. at, "present endeavoring to ascertain how many layers of pink georgette lining would suffice to save the audience's supposed feelings without detracting from the lady's more or less revealed charms. London is flocking to see the show, and the old boys' brigade wishes the;)*would let things alone, and that georgette were off the • market.— Yours CHARMIAN.