FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 260, 2 November 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

THE WAIST LINE,

KEEP FIT,

(By A PARISIAN EXPERT.)

The slip-type of evening dress—for the modern woman—will be marvellous. These slips are being made short in front, dropping even to the floor at the back. Lace is being used for some of them, and the dropping hems are echoed with draperies from the shoulders. There is 1 going to be some wonderful beaded slips—nothing like the beaded slips of yore—not patterned. And the waistline is being placed at the normal, sometimes high on the hip, as there isn't enough incurve at the normal waistline to make belts interesting if placed' there, unless very slender.

Etire is the Motto. However, that word etire haunts my memory yet. It carries a message all its own to women who are primarily concerned with being smart. And certainly it says worlds for active women. This is what it says, to my mind: — Dressing Up Her Best Points. The most ordinary woman can "effect a transformation in her appearance if she dresses up to her best points. Let her stand before a full length mirror, and subject herself to a critical survey, and complete the examination by sitting

in a chair and repeating it. She should end by discovering at least one good point, if not more.

Take the type of woman with heavy, square-cut features and a sallow skin, whose hair is mouse in colouring, without any natural gloss. Her hands and feet appear to be her best and only good points. Instead of wasting precious time in lamenting 7 at not having more, let her count herself fortunate, and dress for her hands and feet. The present vogue for uneven hems will help her in this respect, because some, of the neAV dresses have all their drapery arranged at one side, and disclose on the other side a silken-clad leg and smartly shod shoes. She may also turn to a personal account the prevailing fashion for elaborate sleeves, because they will display her hands to the best advantage, ■while for the same reason the sleeveless dresses for evening wear should suit her equally weJl.

Cherry Lips. Cherry lips that don't turn pale at a cigarette are now a feature in the Parisienna's make-up, and the little lipstick no longer lives in her vanity bag or in her hand. She smiles, as ruddily after dinner as before, but she will never tell you how. she does it, and the tiny flask of liquid rouge is carefully secreted from even her dearest 'friend in the recesses of her dressing room. She is a changeable creature, the Parisienne. She has scarcely unpacked her trunks at the seaside resort she has chosen for her summer l stay—and already she has flung all her last cosmetics to the winds, and changed her colouring! Having bleeched her pretty dark hair to a delicate lemon blonde, she covers her face with white and pink powders, with a touch of reseda green for the shadows thrown by electric lights. She pays fabulous sums for .her make-up!" Is it really and truly adhesive," she asks, yearningly, of her perfumer, handling the dain + " box of her new powder, and waits till he has laid his hand on his heart and sworn that nothing short of hot water wilF s take is off, before she pays the kill!