PARISIAN MODES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 253, 26 October 1933, Page 15

PARISIAN MODES.

Tho seams of skirts are outlined to give panel effects; pockets are set jauntily on the hips; there is no fulness above the knees and little enough below —these rules are carried out with little variation, states a Paris correspondent. One sees inverted pleats both back and front; shallow pleats all round for about a foot* up; fold-over effects,, or some subtle way of cutting tho skirt, such as Worth has in his excellent tailored suits. For the afternoon and evening the skirts receive quite a lot of fuss, but nearly all below or about the knees. There are fin-shaped pleats, ruches, back draperies, and pointed flounces. The sheath dress, the fish-tail drees, the princess robe with a train, the straight skirt with a ruche all round the hem, are all in and, although old fashions revived, they are a change from what we have been wearing. The morning skirt is from ten to eleven inches off the ground, the afternoon about nine, the evening dress may either escape the ground or sweep it. /Sleeves invariably change with the season. We have had such complicated affairs that the present ones look simple in comparison, though they are not as simple as they look. Most of the day sleeves are long, and you can wear a long-sleeved dress in the evening if the rest of the dress be stately enough. The fashion is to trim the sleeves of the morning dress with long, straight ribs, or bands of fur; or to put sleeves of fur or some other material different from the rest of the dress. Then there is the wide arm liole for wraps. It amounts to a sleeve in itself. Sleeve draperies are soft, but their outline is sharp. Even the short evening sleeve has the folded shape or is a drapery carried from the back. There are many shapes for collars. One firm makes a round# stand-up collar of fur and j r ou put your face into it.