STANDARDISED FASHIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 24

STANDARDISED FASHIONS

People have been sayii.g that Juan-les-Pins is the new Deauvi" of the -.iviera. But a friend writing from Cannes says that he has moved on .here because he coulr'n' sleep in Juan-les-Pins. Tiny are working the feverishly. All night . ill dawn breaks the flares hiss and the hammer bang. \n American millionaire, Mr. Frank J. Gould, is the moving spirit behind 'ie hustle. It is Mr. Gould's money, ncidentally, which is behind the great new Casino at Nice. The "standardisation" of Eve proceed? apace. Perhaps it is the most striking sign of the new internationalism. In Paris, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Bucharest, London, Cannes, one sees women dressed alike and groomed alike—the same sort of hair-cut, the same skirt lengtn, the same fashion whims, like *nAA . n f kla ? 6B ' extra lon S earrings, SSntW?* 7 g^V ! S with turned-barik U down r7^ derfUll y d «»rated. I pnt to iZ \ the new trftvel h abit, added pictwesTndT °' '«■"«, i°eas ana New C übl< l uit o«9 "movie." andTholrmodSo'nV^^ s gI ° VCS Parisiennes f 0 thH' "* can sport suits whfoh «i Ame - n v" Italian and Rumanian XfhLond on snppli ££&,*££"£ world over w,th the mode in wuntry clothes, country shoes and ridmiTw? In Vienna now the bakers are compW £! that + women are v eati «g no pastes because they are slimming. And we had thought slanming was a whim of iNew York and - JSS pi