FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

FASHION NOTES.

THE NEW COLLECTIONS.

SKIRTS TO BE "WIDE.

(By A PARIS EXPERT.)

The first visit to Paris is always epoch-making in a woman's life, because she sees with her ,own eyes what she has read about, heard about and perhaps dreamed about for so long. Paris is bathed in the rosy romance of forbidden fruit. Paris is historic, its monuments, its museums, its broad avenues, and its silver river. All these things make everyone long to go to Paris. But there is one other thing, too, which draws all women to Paris: it is the shops. What woman living has not longed for a Paris hat, a Paris frock, Paris lingerie, shoes, gloves and all those other dainty details in which the feminine heart delights? Very often a girl's visit to Paris is brief and unless she knows how to make the best of her time she misses much that she might see and do. If she stays at a wrong sort of hotel she risks being uncomfortable or over-charged. If she goes to the wrong restaurants she may

tion at centre top near the belt. Studded belts with novelty fastenings are numerous and, in fact, there are formal gowns with metal studs for trimming on neck pieces and sashes. Other details include the banded shoulder in evening dresses, the glass fabric-cape bordered with satin matching the gown, cut out flowers applied again in relief on the scattered bouquets of evening material. The low cut front bodice filled in with an organdie ruching, ruffling put on with a deep heading round the front of evening skirts and the non-strap camisole, like a band of blue or whits under the sheer organdie blouse.

Small pockets on the very end of a not too narrow scarf reappear in the right place on each 'side after the scarf ends are slipped through the dress belt, and pulled neatly where they should be, back. Its small buttons are often silvered. The Goal Of Every Woman. A small close-fitting effect should be the goal of every woman. Especially aim for this effect immediately beneath the crown of your hat at the back and don't be caught with the squared off finish to short hair in the back. That's entirely too mannish for feminine use. One can get shape and beauty thete, by thinning the hair out underneath from the top centre left and right, pursuing the tapering and cutting down to behind the ear lobes, where the hair will be given a tapered finish. '