FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 9 January 1926, Page 26

FASHION NOTES.

(BT AN EXPERT.. PARIS, September 23. Because, like the sw-allows, a certain number of migrants—from the Americas, north and south—gather here it should ; not be concluded that the city is full to j overflowing. There is room for all, and those who do come to Paris just | now find the city at its best. The I flowers in the public gardens are still wonderful. The grass is green, and the trees are just beginning to change their colour. Personally, I prefer September to all other months of the year. And there are so many good things to be enjoyed. There is a plethora of delectable food on th- restaurant menus; flrst of all, oysters, plump and green (at 25 francs the dozen!), capons and guinea fowl, fat and'tender, red-legged partridges, cooked as only a French chef knows how to cook them, and becasses au fume. There are civets of hare, too, and salmis of pheasants. There are frogs and snails for those who can bear them. Wonderful peacKes, nectarines, figs, great clusters of golden grapes from Fontainebleau, and huge Duches-e pears from Touraine decorate the tables lat all the restaurants. He would indeed be a difficult and quarrelsome per- ' son who could visit Paris just now and I not find that his week or fortnight was simply filled with the good things" of life. Cult of Slimness. The aboVo paragraph is very interesting reading to those Dersons who either belong to that tribe known as "Pharos Lean Kine," or to those who don't care the least little bit what their "figures" become. For women, at all events, it seems to mc, embonpoint is the arch enemy to-day, especially when couturieres and painters combine to insist on the fleshless figure. Caught between her vanity and gourmandis"e, the modern woman is threading a thorny path, and I many are martyrs to the new beauty cult. Alone, they never could achieve their object, so they besiege the doctor who is said to work wonders, and obey his orders implicitly. His consulting room is filled with society beauties, actresses, film-stars, dancers—all waging war on their "too, too solid flesh." Pitilessly, Dr. X. cuts off cocktails in the morning, cakes for afternoon tea, and the sacrifices imposed at lunch, are beyond, belief. Sipping their mineral water and scowling at the sandwiches, women exchange weights and prospects. "I shall soon be a skeleton," says Antoinette, "I have lost eight pounds in a fortnight, and by the end of the month it will be eight kilogs, I expect." If the craze continues, the drawing rooms of the future will be peopled by shadows in flimsy dresses, like the phantom women in cardboard used by the drapers to-day to display their latest models. Popular Pompons. Milliners are turning out their new models, and every week sees a fresh batch, stamped with the hall-mark of Parisian chic. The hats of the autumn will be found to be characterised by the j variety they lacked in the summer. ' Velvet, plush and panne are being used for these new creations, in union some-1 times, with felt in contrasting tones. A j curved brim of pale felt, and a strip of felt runs round a crown of mole-grey panne. One, of velvet, is covered with stitching, ' the lines running round the crown. A black velvet hat is stitched with gold thread, and completed with a full soft brush or pompon, with golddusted points. A smart model is of panne, with flat brim and clean-cut lines, and a "Marquise," the hardy annual of millinery, is in velvet. There is plenty of colour in the new millinery, though, as usual, a great many women continue to affect black, and the pompon, which is apt to be a superb bunch of badger hair, is the most popular of trimmings. If the "Bustle" Comes In. There are rumours that the "bustle" is coming in again, and women are anxiously awaiting the decision of the Grandes Couturiers, as they have nearly all of them bought their autumn wardrobes, and any change made rapidly in the lines of dresses will be distasteful. However, the rumour persists. I Will Miladi really feel at home with a cropped head and a bustle? Will cropped heads "go" well with this old fashioned style of bygone days? Will she smoke, stride—with a bustle? It seems to mc that a bustle and a woman of the present day are at poles asunder. Is it, that women are at the passing of the ways? Only time can answer this question. Our Sketch. Dark green velvet tailor-suit, chiefly conspicuous by its admirable cut and its simple lines". The chemisette is of rose-pink satin with a turn-down collar

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