FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

PERSONALITY AND STYLE

LOW-HEELED SHOES IN VOGUE.'

(By A PARISIAN EXPERT.) Formerly it was necessary for women 1 to adapt themselves to fashions and the adaptation was not always successful. The 1930 faslii&ns as seen in Paris, will adapt themselves to the women who wear them. They make it a success, for it frames and emphasises their personality. To coin a word the new style is truly egogenicit, releases, and thus apparently creates, personality. If I were to tell you that Paris has revived the princess line, you might think of something very 1912. It isn't so at all. Paris simply often Splays with an evening silhouette which miraculously narrows where a well-made woman narrows and from this smoothly flows a liquid graceful skirt, which falls in points or petals to the ankles, the slipper tops, or the floor. A few gowns trail as attenuated as wave-swayed seaweed fronds. There are scarveß that grow from and fall yon, frocks that sheathe the torso like a sheet of water, that catch in a ripple on the hips, and cascade down in a long unbroken sweep. Tulle dresses are on the crest of the wave. A lovely Parisienne in a misty sort of overlay of flounces on flounces of tulle, created quite a sensation the other day. She wore a wreath of white crystal roses above the yellow curls on her nape and a necklace of white crystal roses to match. Jewellery. Numbers of dressmakers to-day call in the aid of the jeweller, for the fashion that was started a few seasons ago of making sprays of jewelled flowers actually part oi an evening gown has developed to such an extent that the effect of a frock may depend upon its jewelled trimmings this season. The result, of course, is that the price mounts to an alarming figure, although the gown is otherwise perfectly simple—too simple, in fact, in its subtlety of cut to be anything else than extremely expensive. The passion for glitter has even descended to the evening shoes, or rather sandals, since the frail footwear worn nowadays has no claim to the name of shoe. Some of the latest creations of the bottier's art are so heavily embroidered in gold and silver thread, or are so studded with sparkling strass, that they might belong to Cinderella. j Concerning Shoes. Although low-heeled shoes are more or less the vogue in France with sports clothes, there is not much indication that the average French girl regards them with a great deal of favour. She prefers a-high and slender heel which makes her foot look small, and her ankles slender, whicli means, of course, that she does not, walk very much. In fact, almost the first thing which strikes the newly arrived traveller from England is the difference in the shoes worn by the English girl and her French sister. .It is almost the only difference so far as clothes are concerned, for_ the one wears copies of 'the latest Paris models, with, almost as much chic as the: other. But the English girl for the most part wears a rather long and pointed One-strap shoe with a half Louis XV. heel, which suits her height, and, while looking sufficiently dainty, enables her to walk with a swing which /suggests a leisure much given to athletics. The French girl, on the other hand, seems ? £o prefer a highheeled shoe, in which' ehe ' can only take small steps, although the effect is charming-' -* ' '

New Colours i» Stockings. Colour will count for a great deal in the new dress collections. , Not only is it likely that the bigger dressmakers will endeavour to launch rtew shades which have been especially dyed for them, but there are almost certain :to be clever combinations of colours shown which only a skilled artist could conceive. And in addition to all these, fresh tints of beige for women's stockings are on the point of being introduced. Two of the biggest manufacturers have produced some charming shades, which will probably be highly successful. Flesh-pink has long since vanished, but in its place is a "beige-primrose," which is pink with a brown tint, "beige-rose" has still more brown in it, "beige-naturel" is a light brown, and "beige-bure" darker still. It seems fairly certain that "beige-bure" will be popular at the fashionable resorts on the iliviera this winter. Our Sketch. The illustration shows a flounced skirt in tulle falling well to the back, and very gracefully caught up in front in