THE LATEST FASHIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1939, Page 8

THE LATEST FASHIONS

FROM PARIS AND LONDON. » With a bright red wool classic shirt blouse wear a beige herringbone tweed boxy jacket lined with red wool, that hangs straight from the shoulders like a small boy’s. Add a felt sailor hat with a green parrot feather. A pink taffeta waistcoat front is smart when allied with a black taffeta frock. Lelong paints the wide lapel of a crisp white sharkskin jacket with a big pink rose skewered with a painted pin. Evening hats are everywhere in Paris —Suzy’s black pillbox bepl’umed in green, and Reboux’s tiny lame skull cap to match a lame gown. From a London designer comes a shirred white chiffon gown, tied with sentimental bow knots on the bodice and voluminous skirts. ■ Latest in capes gives the apron effect, such as a sky blue cape, which is flared over the shoulders and falls to the knee-line in front. For the very young is a pale primrose chiffon gown smocked with tiny turquoise across the bodice and also around the neck. A London black crepe suit has silver and red embroidered pockets and collar, very tiny. Lighten the severity of a tailored broadtail coat with a topaz necklace and a coq-feather toque. This winter, if you do not wear a jewel, you wear a flower; and if you do wear a jewel, it looks like a flower. A small white Paris hat is trimmed with a large bunch of white daisies at the front. For the tulle wedding a golden bride with a ballerina skirt arabesqued in sequins and an immense veil, and maids in clouds of grey, tinted purple, blue and pink. Peasant coiffes are at the peak in Paris, and Talbot makes one buckled halfway up the crown and modestly veiled. In Paris there is a strong feeling for blues, for dresses with jackets, for black and white checks, and for skirts that swing out at the hem. To match the touches of gold on your black frock wear antelope gloves bound at the wrist with fine bands of gold. Like the curly bits of stucco-work on the ceiling of a rococo palace are three jewelled clips made of diamond and rubies. Four colours per tweed ensemble is the rule this winter, and there are mixtures of wine and purple, rusts, brown, banana, and burnt amber. Black mahogany brown and a ( darkish steel grey are a fresh combination. ‘