Paris in the Mirror Written for "The Post" by Germaine. AND SLIM.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 19

Paris in the Mirror Written for "The Post" by Germaine.

AND SLIM.

PARIS, May 8.

Paris "Fashion Openings" are a thing of the past. Fashion has picked the best, and many are the interesting novelties to be seen. Not so many years ago the fashion creators aimed to startle their public with extreme changes, great surprises, something that any one—even a man—could perceive. But today, anything so obvious is apt to off end. us. We crave subtlety rather than broad eflects—something that calls for taste to appreciate and brains to adapt. The mode, therefore, has become more and more an evolution, a well-defined progression, a matter of clever details, cleverly applied. THE NEW TAILLEUR IS PRACTICAL

One way to start the day right is to start it with a little tailleur, one of those simple, finely-tailored, unassuming suits that blossom along toe Paris Boulevards these fine days, and tdo their best to enlarge the power of the new spring fashions. The severely classic genre of the smart tailor-made >does not in any way put it in the uniform class, for Paris tailors exercise their ingenuity by placing those inimitable little touches their genius devises, upon the plain tailleur, thus lifting it. out of the standard costume class. The lines are pure and simple, devoid of any elaboration which would detract from the true ideas of the tailored costume. Yet most of these models have a strikingly new and individual charm of their own. Inverted pleats are .evident in many cases, and there is a new skirt with a slender line, slit up each side seam for about eight inches to allow freedom of movement for walking. Street clothes are remarkable for simplicity. Mannish suits, perfectly tailored and beltless with pinched in waists and narrow skirts are seen, made of men's shirting materials, navy and white pin

businesslike pyjamas, but those women who would be smart will appear on the beaches in skirts. Beach fashions are a definite section of a woman's wardrobe nowadays, and coiiie in for just as much criticism and tea-table talk as evening gowns or the latest hats. For the beach, too, are some fresh ideas from Paris: workmans' overalls and smocks of bright striped, checked, and flowered cottons, huge white hats with vivid cotton tulle veils, and worn

and combs. These include diadems of real lacquered hair, bird-of-paradise feathers, and 'seed pearls, as well as twisted bandeaux of velvet and silk. Several smart, women are wearing stars of brilliants and other decorative motifs holding their hair in position. Ear-rings are being worn at a new angle and look well with shortlycropped hair brushed back behind ears. Ornaments consisting of two small Mercury wings of gold are being worn set onto the upper rims of ears instead of on the lobes.