WOOL STILL POPULAR

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 266, 5 August 1932, Page 4

WOOL STILL POPULAR

Dictates from Paris SPATE OF NEW HATS The revival of wool for other thau sports occasions has considerably altered the aspect of the afternoon frock in Paris, states an overseas paper. For one thing it has enabled it to stand alone and to go coatless; nor need it be particularly tailored in order to be independent. For another, it has induced a number of smart touches which shall enhance the particular quality and depth of tone of wool. As long as silk held the floor completely, tod. there were occasions when it had to have a number of accessories in the interests of warmth. If there were no coat —which rarely happened then a big fur was necessary. The woollen dress can stand alone, and if it should need a coat effect, then suits are made to approximate it, rather than it should be altered to conform to coot fashion. Suit-Dresses with Boleros. Suit-dresses are made on lines which correspond with a dress-line. The suits made with boleros look as though the bolero were really the bodice, with perhaps an embroidery front. Bright green wool is used for them, the skirts being moderately, but not unduly, long and plain in cut —at least, to all seeming. In actual fact the slightly circular shape is due to a very complicated cutting which has an air of simplicity. Light shoes with green uppers are worn, but the gloves are usually white. White gloves have an increasing vogue, and seem to take no heed of stockings. Besides green, scarlet is rife, and it is perhaps its colour which sometimes causes it to assume an ecclesiastical cut. Slim scarlet dresses may be worn with capes which suggest a priest, and the capes are ornamented with little ecclesiastical buttons and many of them. Sleeves here are long and slender, and the whole effect is rather cossock-like, especially when the beret becomes almost a biretta. It is curious how all kinds of uniforms have come in again, and women are wearing coats, jackets, suits which suggest anything from a footman to a buttons, from mess-kit to an Eton jacket, A cross between the real dress and the suit is the tunic and skirt. Sometimes, of course, the tunic is merely a slightly bloused bodice with a fair.'y broad belt and a basque. Here all the blues are prevalent and deep tones are seen on all hands, where they are not cut out by green and scarlet. Skirts with tunic are usually made with a very deep hip yoke, so that the basque part of the tunic shall lie flatly. Basque bodices may be connected by some well-marked tucks at the sides under the arms, which are evenly distributed above and below the belt. This gives a good fit and yet allows of. looseness in the actual bodice part. The bodice has a V neck and is of the wrapover kind ending in a point. Round the point, is white lingerie, which also appears in a ring and a little cockscomb at the upper arm. With white gauntlet gloves, this makes a very fresh and businesslike dress. , Hat for Afternoon Frock. With the afternoon frock, the hat Is naturally of the utmost importance. Just recently there has been a spate of new hats, some of which are due to Jeff, formerly designer to Jane Regny. Here may be seen men’s boaters, the .crowps covered, with deeply patterned stuff,, and having a slightly Spanish 100 k... Here are - sailors of all kinds, but all with a ribbon deep enough .to ■cover the wall of the crown. There is, indeed, an attempt to do away with the all too shallow hat, which takes a great deal of putting on and which is not entirely in keeping with the modern 1 note so-called. In this interest there' is an Edwardian hat which is not unlike a policeman’s helmet, except that the point in front is less pronounced, and is a little to the side. This is very becoming for rather ceremonial occasions, and it looks very well with a veil, of which not a few people are glad to take advantage. The policeman’s hat goes best with dressy dresses of silk or satin, worn . with a dignified coat. There are other hats inclining toward a point in front, and when, they are black a white rose may be lodged upon the point. There are hats in charming basket weaves, and others which are made simply of the canvas used for neddlework and trimmed with butter muslin. They look very light and sunny. Finally, the poke is seen here and there, and should be rather a snare to the Englishwoman with her passion for the picturesque and her face which is generally too long and thin to bear it. At least there are hats to suit everyone, if everyone will not insist on being suited with the same model.