PARIS FASHIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 24 (Supplement)

PARIS FASHIONS

SIMPLICITY THE KEYNOTE. Agnes’s autumn and winter hats, in Paris, are blue —navy blue, cornflower blue, and turquoise blue—and the trimmings are often scarlet and brown. Carnival ribbons are wound about tall crowns, silk ropes with tassels about others. From many of these hats heavily spotted veils hang a long way down. A prince-ss bonnet shows a bunchof red flowers In front and broad stiff satin ribbons are to be tied under the chin. There are felt hats like cornucopias, and others are like children’s paper boats. There is a chef’s cap, and there is a four-cornered hat such as was worn in 18th century Venice. Felt, velvet, lame, are the materials for these little hats, which are overshadowed by wide wing trimmings, dyed cornflower blue, long quills, and cocks’ plumes. Some winged hats are matched with spiky and

decorative muffs. For the evening there are gorgeous but fragile little hats, with muffs like them, but they are of plumes which the law discountenances In.London. Otherwise the simplicity of fashion is illustrated by Molyneux, who makes brown, sage green, and black twopiece oostumes for the morning. The skirts are short and tight, the bodices slim and straight, with belts or sashes, the sleeves are long and -vvidewristed, and the necklines slightly draped. To go with such dresses there may be short jackets, loose three-quarter coats, long, easy-fitting coats, or tight long coats buttoned invisibly. Several black dresses have neck draperies of bright velvet tied to bows, or dress and belt may be lined with, bright velvet; Evening Costumes. Closely machine-pleated evening dresses of crepe and crepe satin are draped to kimono sleeve lines about the shoulders, leaving pointed neck openings. No trimming goes with these simple frocks. There Is a draped waist belt, light or dark, such as lavender blue, Parma violet, dusty brown, pale grey, and black. Navy blue is here an evening colour.’ A navy blue crepe princess dress has white flowers down the front of the bodice; another has a drapery of embroidered net. With a pale blue dinner dress is a red velvet cape, which reaches below the knees. Sapphire blue is the colour of a formal velvet dinner dress, and also of a tailored dinner dress. Here the longj_tight skirt reaches to the instep, the lavender crepe blouse has no sleeves, the fitted jacket and the toque are of velvet. A blouse pyjama Is of cyclamen crepe, with a long wine-red crepe coat. A black dress Is worn under a grey-green, loose three-quarter woollen coat with a beret like it. Several fur capes reach to the knees or just beyond.

A now not uncommon hat is the St. Cyrian shape of felt, with cocks’ plumes covering the crown. Black dresses predominate in the afternoon, with necklines draped or open or closed with braid frogs, ties or little ■ scarves, fur or fur-trimmed capes, and toques, caps, or draped berets.