WHAT I SAW IN THE NEW COLLECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 19

WHAT I SAW IN THE NEW COLLECTIONS.

This season, there is a new. and very significant silhouette —a high waistline, and a length of limb, infinitely becoming to the majority of women. This silhouette of carefully studied fullness at the side gives the figure the curve of a spindle. Besides this line, there is almost a tendency to the umbrellaskirt. The first silhouette is destined for the fortunate few who can allow themselves all the fantasies and even some of the exaggerations of the moment, while the second is more practical to the general public.

The new evening skirts are mostly governed by their materials. The beautiful soft velvets, exquisite georgettes, flowered failles and satins, fall in smooth oval potaVpanels to the floor. Chiffon is shirred into voluminous volants. Flat tulle flounces crescendo into billows in the back. The new allover embroidered nets are simply dreams. A hortensia tulle dress covered with grey-pink flowers—you must touch them to be sure they exist—has flat flounces of plain tulle at the bottom. Companion capes or coats are draped or flounced with grace, and have enormous framiiig collars of the softest fur —real or imitation—according to your purse strings. Crystal still entrances the Parisiennq. Two enormously wide necklaces of thick cut crystal, one clear, one smoky, lie round the base of tho throat. Very thick, grapy crystal strands falling to below the waistline melt into subtle tints to suit each frock. lied nails are out of tho picture. The chic Parisienne will have none of them. Instead, sho paints them an opalescent white, or a very, very faint pink.