WOOL DEVELOPMENT

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 226, 28 August 1939, Page 1

WOOL DEVELOPMENT

NEWS FROM PARIS Whai Will bs Worn at Smart Resorts and on Continental Bethea? Paris Says—lailored shorts or slacks with shirtmaker blouse or sweater have become a..sort- of uniform for beach and summer resort- wear and, actually, nothing is smarter or more satisfactory to wear.

Any amount of imagination ran he exercised in the -selection and combination of fabrics and colours, and in unexpected details of cut and trimming.

Tiie cream-white heavy shantung jacket with one of .Marcel Koch as smartest costumes . couldn’t be more conservatively tailored, hut the trou.sei's are most unorthodox worsted ilanliel in bright green, and red tartan and cut very slim in the leg's, like the trousers gentlemen wore round about 1850!

High waisted trousers give a neat slim waist-line and make, the legs look nice and Jong. Wide sashes and eummerhandls or thin wool jersey wound tightly round the waist make it look very slim too—Leioiig uses black wool jersey for a cummerband with a gold dagger thrust through it. Jean Patou puts a wide sash and tiny shortsleeved bolero liandknitted in narrow stripes of red, white and blue, on a white tailored beach pyjamas. Choose Clothes for Amusement Value—They can still be Practical it’s also nice to include in ones seaside wardrobe, a costume or two frankly chosen for their amusement value. Jacques Heim’s pareo ideas come at the top of this category—they are gay, voting, amusing, and.—most important of ail—flattering to> the figure. To the thin printed woollens and jerseys, -Monsieur Heim usually employs for pareos and abbreviated wlraped shorts, has now been added a new heavy, firm rubberized jersey-—it’s called “Eelast” and is printed in gay bright coloured, patterns designed by the artist Marianne Ciouzot especially l'o-r Monsieur Heim. Also from Heim comes a eliannnig little black wool, jersey swimming suit, cut to make the waist-line look very sliin, and with lines of white stitching to imitate corset-boning through the waistline. Pinafore Dresses Of course lots of people would rather wear beach dresses than either shorts or slacks. Bruyere lias charming little pina-fore-dresses of blue-.and-wl.iite or red-and-white cheeked gingham, with shorts underneath, suitable' for either beach or gardening at home, Marcel Rochas makes workman’s smocks, gathered very full on to shoulder yokes, peaching about michC

way down the thigh and worn over shorts of the same length, they’d he perfect for northern beaches, in thin piavv blue wool * flannel over white flanneli shorts or Jong flannel trousers. Light-weight striped wool muslin makes charming little beach dresses like Greek tunics, belted at the waistline and! witli a long scarf that can bo worn round the shoulders.

Paris Says Woo | Beach Accessories Lead) .the Field •Just etK' with town clothes; accessories ior "the beach are the most fun of all- • • ._ • ' _ : Rochas’ - bag of red-and- * plaid woollen, shaped like a. * tranip’s handkerchief mack, and slung over the shoulder on a bamboo stick. - Lelong’s bright-coloured JittLe knitted socks worn with grand thick-soled beach sundials—the latter very simple, with the soles hinged under the arch, of the foot and with wide straps cr coloured cord criss-crossed over the foot and round the ankle, like gladiators’ sandals. Suzy’s little filets for the hair, in bright-coloured knitting wool, on a. grosgrain band tied in a perky little bow in front. ■ Paquin’s little berets in red wool embroidered in gold), in black or navy with bright-coloured wool embroidery, to wear with tailored slacks and short-sleeved jackets.