A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 242, 21 June 1928, Page 2

A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK.

(By Yvonne Rodier) Frocks for really "dressy” social functions grow increasingly elaborate. They embody complications that proclaim, definitely and unmistakably, the ultimate mode, and that “date” creations only slightly older than these new designs. There is. for instance, the pronouncedly slantwise line, now characterising the latest coats as well as the smartest dresses. Yet, with it all. the newer elaborations are so subtly introduced to maintain the longaccepted ideal of the slim and simple silhouette. Though every phase of drapery and stitchery is represented in the collections, this first-glance impression of simplicity is created. The illusion is helped by infinitely clever arrangements of incrustations, godets, tuckings, pleats, gaugings, embroideries, and the rest. Flounces also are treated with exquisite skill. They, too, are in the slantwise category, and make it impossible for the really ambitious elegante to maintain her reputation for dressing to the height of the mode with the flounced frocks of last season! Even the uneven hemline spells something new. in unevenness. Lines and seams and other details of workmanship are equally indicative of the * i last word, ” intimating clearly, to the lessoned eye, the subtle changes that help La Mode to maintain some measure of her ancient tyranny.

Spots and stripes are notably the vogue for jumper-suit designs; those gay little suits that one meets in the Bois of a sunny morning. Typical was a model creation comprising a sleeveless cardigan in a new blue fabric witn conspicuously large white spots, and a finely-pleated frock of plain white crepella. Equally clearly labelled as the nouvelle mode was a godet skirt of navy crepella with a straight, narrow, matching coat lined with a very chic navy-and-white spotted crepe de chine. And the same gay fabric fashioned the basqued blouse complement of the little jupe. A picturesque corsage indeed, with its bordering fringe of red silk; and an under waistline indicated by a swathed folded band of the blue and w r hite.

As for fabrics. never, surely, was there such a variety to choose from! And t lie universal soft-surface vogue redeems from crudity the colours resuscitated from the somewhat violently vivid past—of forty years or more agone.

A marked feature of the prevailing trend of fashion is the tucking one sees everywhere. It is particularty j noticeable on the uncommon-looking I coats of heavy black georgette, unlined I and charmingly graceful. Here, tjiis * tucking .is graduated in width the tucks widening as they roach the hem; but again the slim silhouette is preserved. Collarless, too, for the most part, arc these dainty confections, unless one can dignify by the name of “collar” the piquant little neck finish in the form of a flat band . daintily piped with black satin. Altogether an invaluable acquisition. this georgette model, for wear over any kind of light frock as w r ell as the gown en suite for which such a w T rap is specially designed. 1