IN FASHION'S REALM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 2

IN FASHION'S REALM.

UP-TO-DATE NOTES ON WHAT TO WEAR.

The Americans ■ call this the "barrel"; the French, the peg-top. As said in a previous note, ,you may easily overdo it, and in. any case you must have the right figure. While many extreme expressions are evidenced in the pictures we get from abroad, they are taboo alongside this. As you will see, the draping is from pleats at waist to regular distances

save for front and back. The art is to retain the contour and yet follow 'the lines. ' These skirts are a very late note, and will continue to be favoured.for some time. I have used with the selection a very pretty blouse,', slightly swelled front< , with frill,►. buttons and holes,- collar in keeping, simulated pockets, crescent design, simple sleeve cuff in sympathy with collar. With such a dress a sash ia a-great improvement, and so I have included one. Some time njjo ' it was rumoured that the famous designers of'the old world intend'"signing" their dresses as artistes do their pictures.' I see that the rule .has come into force, Paquin, for instance, says that for the •'protection of their clientelle'! *ill garments will bear a seal embossed with their name, and that the ..purchaser's name will lie added. How this'pi'otects anyone buying a Paquin is not shown; it cannot be against copying. Lucille ia giving her guarantee by sigjning her name on the waist-band or label attached thereto, and others are employing something of the same system. .So far as I can see, the chief advantage in all this lies in the opportunity it gives the wearer by a iriastev to. boast of the face. "Yes, my dear, I always get imy dresses at Paquin's. See, here is the name, also' my own." Inci-