FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

YOUTHFUL STYLES WIN.

LINGERIE MODES. (BY A PARIS EXPEKT.) The way in which women are wearnig Paris styles to-day is a warning to look out for dangerous curves ahead. If the rest of the feminine world outside Paris is going to take up fashion as worn there will have to be such a reducing and rejuvenating as never before.

The girlish ingenue tone of present styles is getting louder and louder, and from this to real adolescence is no more than baby's first step. We are at the end of a fashion cycle, something _ is going to happen, and this growing girl-

of instances. It is extraordinarily low in the back, and a new feature is the square back decollatee.

Collars are serious affairs on the new frocks. Designers have unanimously agreed among themselves that the feminine collarbone snail be decently covered. Sometimes it is interred below several layers of cotton, one of organdie or cotton being interposed between one of the frock material, or the frock may be throat-high, and a wide flared collar will drop to the waist in front. Organdie trimmings will receive new impetus by the way, for organdie will be seen in colours as well as .in white. In white it will be used for little rolled-down collars at the base of the throat on dark day dresses, ending with a big bow-tie, or as shoulder ruffles on dark silk evening dresses. In colour it will have a startling role of brilliantly contrasting shawls and fichus, sometimes several layers thick on evening dresses.

Scarves tied in a bow will add colour in the most unexpected ways. These