FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 20

FASHION NOTES.

' I (By an Ex.pert.) PARIS, October 10. I The l.nuvro musoum is about to sell ' 2300 unclaimed pictures which have been lyinn- for th,> past thirty years in the vaults of the palace. They are. copies, often by well-known artiw'ts, made- in the Louvre, of famous pictures there. They were left to be called for later, but for unknown reasons, their owners did not, return to claim them. J'robably j I most were painted by young artists who j {fell in the war. Among the best of the ; pictures for sale are «>pics of Krajro.nard's "Uα Bacchante Kndorinie," a girl's [head by (JretizP, Lancrot's •'l-econ dc LMiMique." Velasqne/.'s "1/ Infante Mario(There ■■<>," and l!.embra.ndt"s "Portrait d'Homme." Talking of the Lmivros re- , minds mc that yesterday I visited the ■ new Mid century mom of painting! I there, where the two Infest acquisitions I of the National Vuseum are now e.vhi- ! joited. It might well be called Hi,, hall j j "of the glories of France, - ' „,. brilliant j I are the works on the walls. The ('our- : , bet. studio picture and the new I Via- i li-roix. "I, a Mort ,le Sardanaple." with 'its porgpoup draperies ami piiuiptuoiM I flesh tints, screen well out in the room j tiro great Ingres, whi.-h *cts the note [with its gr.nip of lignres on >v jlarge and harmonious » scale with il- j ichoiro ivory tints. From opening to , elosinp time, it was a constant streiini ot ' picture lovers; there were ninny well- j known people there, artist, actors, I [students, city workers, soldiers and I I tourists, all moving from one picture t' , J Bitot her. Two pretty little midim-tte* j (looked a.bout with somewhat wared i J faces, apparently wondering how ho' many of the paiiited la.lies did without , !dres-o». "They are really— roiilly—"

I ~~~ ' —' j one said to the other, and, nnabie to , oqiress her feelings drew her companion I quiokly away. ! SILK STOCKINGS THE LATEST VK.\U:.\i. ! There are several ways of being potsj oned lic-itlea arsenic anil mushrooms. j'vSiik etockings are the latest venom. A 'young and very pretty J'aris dancer, wishing to add to hi-r already well[stocked collection, bought nix pairs <>t ■ lace-work stockings, of the colour known as "UVte-de-iicgre." J One night, as she was in her dressing- | : room preparing fur her "miniero,"' slie ; noticed that her ankl.-> r-eoined unusually ■ large, 'but >paid no attention. 'Hie next I morning, the swelling had RO increased, I as to 'he most painful, and a doctor was ' called in. The malady was diagnosed as ] blood -poisoning, which was immediately ' traceable to the dye of the stockings. A chomiit analysed the silk, and found that the dye was poisonous. The dancer was ill for a long time, 'but hits now l>c- I jguu to walk again with great diliiculty. j |Mie has liled suit against the simp where the stockings wen-, bought, ami has the I .consolation of being richer in experience, land, having wiped her eye* anil powdered j her nose, will no doubt look forward to !ihe time, not now far distant, it is j j hoped, when she will once ni-orp charm | I her audiences with iier graceful dancing, i I With the lunv waistline at the hips.' j attention is immediately called to the I l bell. Chaste metal belt's are a. novelty.] !iui,| all the dressmaker- are u-ing them \ J in profuritm. Many of the new] I belts look as if they had conic irom a j 1 l.la.cksmith's shop with all sorts of queer things danplina from them that roul.l be . ji-nlli-d tools as well as anything else. | urn SKKTIII. Coat frncl.s in brown vplours-dc-laine is illustrated. Tiic body of the coat is '■ cut in p.incls fore and aft, and the t-ide

' panels are trimmed Tvith narrow bands 'of matching coloured leather. The j sleeves arc wide, ami thejrarment fastens !in front with buttons which end at the : waist-line. j