FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 26

FASHION NOTES.

(By AX EXPEST.i PARIS, October 14. It is entertaining to watch the change of light and ehade in colour schemes of the season writes our Paris correspondent. A rather violent start was made with intensely bright dyes. Then softer shades, the pastels came, and beige, tan, mole and grey had a phase, followed by green and purple .v every variation, with a good bit of yellow. Gradually dance frocks have seemed to catch the flower tints, and silks, crepes and voiles are shown in the ''Opera" shades, meaning fuchsia, petunia, dahlia, all the pansy colours and a new colour called black rose, meaning a deep, winepurple. Strangely enough, these extremes in gay colour are also to be seen for afternoon dress and tailleuri. For instance, it is nothing unusual to-day to see a coat of pastel-blue cloth, trimmed with some contracting fur. -is for jadegreen cloth coats, and tailor-mades, their name is legion, and tomato is also one of the leading colours for coats for winter wear. This season, our boulevards will present a gay spectacle, with theee bright coloured raiments instead of the drabcoloured coats and tailleurs which women have been wearing lor so many seasons past. This fashion for brilliant coloured raiment for day wear, originated at Nice and Monte Carlo. Styles in neckwear are many and attractive. The various arrangements for the neck change almost weekly, new ideas being constantly expressed in dainty things for different costumes. The round collar of lace, embroidered batiste, or net, has brought in the bow-tie. This is a quaint knot of velvet or silk ribbon with long ends. A bow of this sort, with streamers of narrow black velvet ribbon, is added with charming effect to light coloured silks. For the tailored shirts, the Windsor tie has returned to favour, and is shown in all the new shades of crepe, wash silk and georgette. Parisian designers are indeed making lavish use of the neckbow and tie. They have been introduced on some informal day frocks. Fluttering surah bows are placed down the front of a dress. In another French model, butterfly bows of dotted ribbon in a row of three are placed down the front of a navy blue serge frock. The la-test and quaintest collar line, rather high and round, is finished with a flat collar of lace, real or imitation, of embroidered net. or with one of the dainty frills of batiste and lace shaped to (it the circle. This frilling is sold by the yard. Some extreme novelties in coloured embroideries are shown. Vivid colour and bold designs have become so usual, that the art of the early Americans is being introduced in many styles of dress and in accessories. oirips and bands, and single motifs in Indian bead-work, cleverly copied, are effectively used on occasional gowns, the straight model being chosen as a rule, because of the need of a simple background. In some original models, this embroidery is combined with good results with floss silk stitches. All of it is especially ornamental in the smaller articles, as for instance, the trimming on sports hats, belts, and a suggestion now and then on the latest glove of heavy kid and doeskin. Some of the newest and boat-look-ing bags are heavily beaded, after the manner of the handcraft of the American Indian. Each year there is a fabric that claims popularity. Last season it was "kasha" in endless variety. ...is year it is to be velvet. The whole world lias gone velvet mad. Velvet for evening wear never entirely goes out of fashion, but this year, there will be a race for popularity in evening dresses, between velvet and the metal laces. And, mind you, the new velvets for evening wear are so light, as to be almost diaphanous. They are more supple even, than chiffon velvet. Velvet also goes to make simple afternoon gowns, cut on fourreau lines, and with no trimming at all. A squarenecked decolletage, and long, close-fitting sleeves generally accompany these gowns. Our Sketch. Our illustration displays a smart tailleur in bois-de-rose beige satin, a

referring to spiritual hills, but the idea is just as good -when it is applied to raising the eyes naturally. The result is rest. Occulists tell us that all too fewpeople realise the value of looking off into the distance. Try it sometimes, when your eyes are tired. Just look away, and up—don't focu3 on something near at hand. It makes no difference if you are not in the country— city distance is just as good—it is rest for the eye muscles. When you gaze into space the mind slows up too, and perhaps you forget your immediate trouble and think a happy thought. And behold, with the happy thought, your eyes begin to sparkle, you forget that you were tired, and the world seems a better place. It's a good idea, and a good motto to remember: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the M 113."