FASHIONS FROM PARIS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 14

FASHIONS FROM PARIS

LONG-WAISTED SKETCHES

Extraordinarily long-waisted are the sketches from Paris in most of the bestknown papers, some being finished with girdles (which mysteriously keep in place), and others with choux, buckles, or sashes with fringed ends. The Oriental note, in shape and colour, is still very pronounced, and brilliancy is the slogan of the day. The Parisian correspondent of the Gentleman says .-—The well-known French saying: -"L'Hompie propose et Dieu dispose," can be applied in a novel version at present, in connection with the red fashions that have met with somewhat of a failure. Today we could say: "La Mode propose et Femme dispose," and would be equally right. The all-red dress in the street has not "caught-on," and very few women wear it at home in the afternoon.

A few instances on the stage show how a bright tomato or brick-coloured jacket and hat look well at the seaside with a white skirt, while shoes, stockings, sunshade, and gloves. There was recently a glorious red velvet evening cape that made a sensation. The material had a white sheen, and was trimmed with a thick, tubular, trelliswork collar in similar velvet, with a couple of slits for the hands. Beneath was an ivory cropo do chine, finely embroidered in red, in tlio design of apple blossom and long stems, after the Japanese, fashion. The bodice was veiled with red tulle at the back, and completed round the waist and down either side with scarves to match. These scarves crossed the shoulders, and were tied in a bow and ends over each hip.

The new programme at the Theatre dv Grand-Guignol was certainly less commented on at the dress rehearsal than the appearance in the hall of a pretty Parisienne, whose frock had a sleeve of one colour and one of another. But a pretty woman can wear what she likes, and people started analysing the manner in which the colour scheme was accomplished. It was a robe-chemise in black marocain, wherein one sleeve was in green georgette over red, and the other in red crepe over green. The fulness was caught at the elbow into a cuff of red and green embroidery fashioned into medallions. A similar idea, in medallions, formed the belt. A popular hat of the moment is in black erin, with a short veil in black Chantilly just masking the eyes, and a small green parrot placed in a slanting position at the side.

Mauve is once more in vogue, especially with self-toned trimming in ribbon. A sketchi illustrates an exquisite afternoon toilette in heliotrope crepe, with a graceful undulating movement at the hem of the skirt. At the waist one discovers one of those ribbon posies, in loops, to which I alluded a couple of weeks ago. This looped trimming repeats itself effectively on the cuffs and in a treble row at the hem. The hat is black.

I know numerous women who have succeeded in ronovating a last season's hat by raising the brim in front and embroidering the crepe de chine lining thereof with a raised floral pattern' in silk, wool, and chenille, upon a fragment of cretonne. These embroidered hats are the latest sensations in Paris.