FASHION-NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 10

FASHION-NOTES.

THE REIGN OF THE RUFFLE. Although it has but recently made its appearance here, in Paris the ruffle is " le grande .'monarque de la mode"; for England it is:mafcjng what may perhaps be best described as a furtive bid lor approval, but in : . Paris it has carried everything before it.- -'-To"-he.4ruIy>in the mode of the mouieht' : tJiii raffle should match the gown worn. Thus for a taffeta chiffon, flecked with pin spots of "white and piped in a wonderful and beautiful way with terise -panne, the ruffle provided en suite was of black tulle, mounted on a band (further adorned by a cut steel buckle) of cerise velvet; and for a white and black striped mousseliue de soie, superposed upon smoke-grey chiffon, the ruffle was of grey tulle. "To every neck its ruffle " seems the sartorial watch word of the moment. But then your true Parisienne is far too wise to indulge in a mode unbecoming to her particular type, and where the mentor is unduly fat, or of the uridegenerate kind known so .cruelly -and' uncompromisingly as"' a "■dbußle". chin," she adopts the "ruffle Henri Quatre," and thus, while contriving to be in the height of fashion, cleverly conceals her own defects. Again, the possessor of what I have wittily heard called " le cou Sargent," after the great English painter, will enhance her beauty with a ruffle " a la Reine Elizabeth," and these finished with a buckle and long ends of pleated cambric, are quite the latest .dictum of fashion with regard to thfCruffle.. ....„..., .