FADS HOT FROM PARIS

Shannon News, 26 February 1926, Page 4

FADS HOT FROM PARIS

RECENTLY CLEARNED 'BY OUR FASHION EXPERT. Shaved kid is the latest material lor coats. Not that skin au nature!, but kid cut and ppen-woi-ked into patterns, with bright colours laid behind the openwork . Various shades of violet from a tich vivid hue to a tint that merges Impreceptibly into grey, are going to be very much worn. And of ail materials, velvet will be first favourite. In spite of all rumours, the bustle is not coming back. The big black bows sometimes used are not a half way house to this old-fashioned atrocity, but simply part of the vogue tor putting all trimmings at the back. Strange as it seems, mittens arc coming in again—but very different mittens from the black silk ones worn by groat-grandmother. Those Paris now sponsors are very amusing and charmingly pretty, in all manner of colours, and often made of lace or lavishly embroidered. Flowers, flowers all the way, is the slogan or the Gay City this autumn. Many of the new materials are uower-piinted and flower-embroider-ed, and even sports suits now bear some resemblance to a summer garden. One model boasted a sweater outlined in red and blue and adorned at the ctntrefront with an immense rose in the some colours, while the matching scarf and hat both bore similar blooms. Backs are trumps this season. As Paris is keeping to the same straight line slightly broken by godets and pleats which we have been wearing for some time, she is introducing variety by leaving frontfe plain and lavishly trimming out back views. Two long streamers of ribbon, depending from either shoulder, meeting and knotting well above the waist and then continuing their downward course almost to : the hem, are quite first favourites. So easy, for us of the slender purses to add to frocks that are no longer quite le dernier cri. Paris dressmakers are making fur of some kind the heroine of every garment. Never has it been more worn. On the sides one of the hems is a favourite position. Sometimes the fur is dyed to match the dress, but oftencr a colour constrast is aimed at and light pelts trim dark gowns 'and vice versa. There are even (artificially) striped and chess-board patterned furs—distinctive but rather eccentric. Even more fearsome are the new name/s for th e various pelts—sulesky palimi, galiak and burnsducky are just a few. But these pagan-sound-ing titles only mask quite humble old friends such as mouse, rat and mole.