FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

BATHING suits

THE NEW MODE

(By A PARISIAN EXPERT.)

The Deauville season has begun in real earnest and promises to be a very brilliant one. The famous plage is crowded with bathers and sightseers. There are two types of people who go to make up the population of the broadsanded beach at Deauville—those who are here to parade their delicate summer robes or elaborate bathing gowns, and those who are here to bathe and swim. Perhaps the paradera are more numerous than the swimmers. This morning there was a striking contrast in the spectacle of the gaudly-clad, graceful women promenading ankledeep in the sand skirting the seashore, and the dripping figures in skin- tight blue and black bathing costumes, breasting the waves or swimming far out to sea beyond the "danger" flags. Beach Parade, Vivid. The fancy bathing costumes for which Deauville has become - notorious are

chiefly worn by non-bathers, or, rather by bathers who never dream of going more than knee-deep into the water. There are many costumes to be seen in vivid, contrasting colours. In every case this dainty headgear, peaked over the ears, is made of silky material, in colours vastly different from the general colour of the bathing eostume and lined, in most instances, with scarlet or emerald green satin. The 'more startling the colours, the greater the peacock pride of its wearer.

Perhaps the most pleasing spectacles are the jeunes filles. Groups of sisters yet in their teens are to be reen robed in close-fitting bathing suits of identical cut, but of varied colours. Some wear scarlet and others bright heliotrope, saxe blue, nile green and primrose yellow. Black suite, cut low in the back, much slit up ovet the hips, are worn by the ultra-mode rnifcts. Futurist Bathing Caps. Sensational as are the bathing dresses offered this season for the fashionable plages, the caps present a novel variety of colour and it will be easy to recognise Paulette or. Mimi or Adele or Toinette in the water by her saucy little bonnet of so many futurist tints. Onei of the latest schemes in the way of new beach coiffures are the pearl and beaded nets which some women are wearing this season. They are in all colours and usually match the costume they accompany. They cover the head and forehead and the hair is plastered on either side of the ears. It is impossible to describe the daintiness of these sea nets and the white pearl nets, worn with white jersey bathing dresses, are too lovely for words. Embroidered Verse the New Vogue. A tender line or two of verse embroidered on the corsage of the- gown is the latest whim of certain fair Parisiennes, with a bend toward sartorial novelty. One elegantly-dressed woman the other day was noticed with the following lover's declaration worked across the front of her robe; — To-day more than yesterday, and much ■v< less than before. Another in pathetic strain announced to the world that: Sometimes the hand that one loves Touches the heart and wounds it. . Present-day poets waiting for fame will probably be keen to appreciate the new method for securing the publication of their verses. / Coarse Straw. A hat can be so expressive. It can be. aggressive, common place, nouveauriche, it can hold the romance of a lifetime in its f&ds or jn its .trimmings. It can correct most successfully the , blackest depression by its sprightliaess, «

or it can add largely to one's daily burden. Chosen without a purpose, it goes with nothing in one's wardrobe. Chosen with a purpose, it can link up two odd articles of clothing and make them one. Among the useful models which are much seen on the seashore this season and which rarely come amiss, are a firm and coarse straw, neatly trimmed with ribbon. Many brims are being lined underneath, either with the same colour as appears on the dress or in some pastel shade that throws a soft shadow on the face. Flesh-pink crepe marocain is an excellent lining for a black or brown hat, or the lining may be of the colour of the flowers that decorate the hat. A single flower, rather large than small, or two little ones, set back to back, is trimming enough for the smartest hat. points are line, colour, and the way the hat is worn. A water lily and its bud is just right for a large hat of crinoline straw, though grapes, or wild roses made in wax, are also much used. To be quite up-to-date, ostrich feathers should be slit up the stem, left straight and whispy, and then burnt and glycerined. They hang limply over the brim of a hat, with <, flat and desolate expression, for all the world as if they had just come out of a thunderstorm. They are first cousins to monkey fur in their ragged appearance. Felt and gros-grin hats are in great demand. Both are meant for seaside or country use. The former needs little

or no trimming, the latter is feminine enough to call for flowers and fruit, metal edgings, embroideries and the like. I v Oar Sketch. The illustration shows a robe-de-style, in pale yellow mousseline-de-aoie. The sldrt, which has an up-in-the-tront