FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 224, 21 September 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

NATTINESS FOR SUMMER. SUITS IN TAFFETA(By A PARIS EXPERT.) Paris flings its fashions broadcast annually and only once in a way flashes a big surprise. After a stretch of prim high necks and attention snatched from bare backs by a flaunting of properlydressed fronts, comes a aaring triangular cut-out, a heart-shaped decolletage, if you will, but with undue suddenness, its creator reverts to an old-time Puritanism and cautiously conceals it. The shield, so to speak, is a bolero, with its covering flap designed with a provoking decision to fit the heart's rim. It was inevitable that the triangular front decolletage should develop from that most becoming of neck openings, the square, widened out below, and at the same time follow in the wake of the much-fitted bust, and the whole uncomfortable scheme of corseting. Throughout the summer there may be detected • by all who know, a certain rollicking nudity, under cover of the most discreet capes of Quaker grey, that bid fair to flutter all over the Paris streets. A cut-out back will

effective with a plum-rad robe, if you, reader, go in for contrasts that are unusual. Your pet suit this summer will be of taffetas. Also your suit blouse. To top it the perkiest of tiny hats, the smartest of fabric gloves with wide taffetas cuffs and belts and scarves. The tailor-mades are as usual among the moet charming items of the collections. For trimming them the Paris couturiere brings into play every grace, and an exceptional instinct for coloui's which causes her to delve in amongst the warm ones, such as brown, orclire, russets or the acid and fresh tones. There is an astonishing recherche in the details: Short sleeves to jackets, velvet cuffs and collars, queer belt-buckles, skirts entirely pleated, numerous collars in linen and lingerie, blouses, varied to the infinite. _ Costume Jewellery. Dull white costume jewellery will not only be used as "resort" jewellery for summertime clothes, but does a better job at home as the white accents for dark wool dresses instead of the liard-to-keep spotless white collar and cuff sets of other seasons. Wide bracelets, one on each wrist, and double clips, also of white, are four pieces that are inexpensive but tremendously effective, and new on all your black, blue and dark brown clothes that yoti are wearing every day. Try them and you will always use them.