FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

TULLE EVENING FROCKS.

SIMPLE EVENING WRAPS

(By A PARISIAN EXPERT.)

| In Paris this autumn we are all very nicely dressed, records our correspondent. Whether you lunch, or have tea in one of the smart restaurants, go to the races, or the private view of pictures, you can see us all looking our best in neat coats—cloth coats, furtrimmed, in plain blue, black and beige. Or our coats may be in some luxurious fur, and often these are trimmed with some contrasting of fur. We wear flowers, neat hats, neat shoes, and a bag to match. We wear one curl in the middle of our forehead, or three curls on the side, just where our neat little skull cap is slit up. We wear wonderful gloves, buckles at the wrist, or with embroidered revers, mostly in brown or

beige, but white gloves are making a bid for favour. Gold fetters on our wrists, and just the right make-up. Or you can see us in luxurious black. This is wonderfully done this autumn. Fine silk crepes are tucked and draped, and hung on slim forms with close-tit-ting hats of black, gleaming diamonds and becoming pearls. Our stockings are growing darker; soon perhaps we shall be wearing filmy black ones again; and complexions that only one's particular beauty specialist can manufacture are the ret of each, one of us. The Parieiennc among us claims that she can beat Nature at the beauty game. It must be admitted that she can carry her colour through many a tight place where Nature's methods would fail her. Dealing with Colour and Satin.

! Then there is colour in clothes. We have plenty of gay little chiffon frocks, lots of pearly grey and. pinkish ensembles. When we wear flowers, they must "go" with the rest of us in colour. When the winter gets very cold we shall wear our flowery frocks under a cosy fur coat.

Satin' Do you like satin? Not very much, perhaps. But it is being done so well in Paris. A black satin ensemble for la jeune feinme when she feels like it. White satin for the evening can look the most simple thing in the world. The dull sort is the best. And then there is that thick rich satin which falls like velvet. Indeed, you may see five white dresses to one coloured one. "Savings period," said a couturier sitting by me once at the Ritz. "When a woman wants to buy only one dress, she always chouses a white one or a black one." Evening Dresses Seen in Paris.

Among the many successes of the season for evening wear are the tulle dresses which are being worn. One seen in black, with a silver lame yoke, had long sleeves, tight to the elbow, and then slashed to the wrist. Silver flowers were cut out and applied here and there to the tulle, and the skirt had a broad silver hem. At an evening party this week a very charming ensemble of gold and peach pink was worn. The dress was in dull gold lace, embroidered with gleaming jewels over gold lame, and the cloak was in peach pink velvet trimmed with brown fur.

Gold sequins are often seen, whole dresses being closely covered with them, and no trimming but a jewel or flower I'm colour. The importance of the evenling cloak is well realised. No dress is complete without a good cloak.

Full skirts for dancing are quite pcr-j miesible. They look much more grace-1 ful than the very tight ones. A slender, fair-haired girl was dancing recently in a turquoise blue crepe de chine frock with blue tulle, box pleats let into the skirt, and a blue tulle sash. Her only ornament was a big pink feather flower on the right hip. Another girl, with very dark hair, wore a rose-pink lame dress with a box-pleated skirt, straight bodice —no sleeves, of course, rounded neck, and a silver lace underskirt which showed below the box-pleats.

Evening Wraps.

Evening wraps require to be chosen according to the temperament of each night in this climate. For one night a fur coat is the only wear, and the next night a flimsy covering lined with some imitation fur is all that is required. Most of the couturieres are making simple coats of satin and velours, fur trimmed. The large scarf collar is being uaed, and one house shows a wrap in the form of a large rectangular lame shawl in gold, embroidered in large black flowers, which looks particularly well. These lame shawls, and gold and silver lace shawls, are remarkably becoming to a certain type of woman, and [indeed, arc superseding the Spanish variety in favour.

Our Sketch. The illustration shows a smart after noon dress in black satin. The skirt it arranged in overlapping pointed sections