Chat From Paris (By, Mtrgret Manet)

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 111, 6 November 1937, Page 19

Chat From Paris (By, Mtrgret Manet)

I do not remember in many years a so charmingly decorative, summer as Paris is giving us this season. Linen', crepes,, muslins, laces—all bright, as gardens—are cut to new feminine lines which are strongly accented in every accessory, in hats and in , coiffures.

SUMMER OF "PRETTY" FROGKS

Occasionally one sees the tailored line but "even the type of women whose character .has always seemed to demand it makes clever compromise with crisply 'full sleeves, flared 'panels and, frequently,' many bows. Indeed, bows and' bright ' colours is the key to fas,hio,n for, bQth youth and age, the really young woman choosing the candour of the stiffer materials, the older preferring the kindness of the softer.--. - ~

MIDDLE YEARS. Truly 'becoming are the groundlength gowns designed for afternoon occasions and the woman of middle years.' They are,-generally speaking, smaller patterned and accompanied by a brief but carefully fitted coatee that is cut .in the bolero manner exrept that it it given a wrist-length sleeve, puffed- and upstanding, slightly at the shoulder. .When lace is Used waistdeep V's~are the "Chosen decolletages, and these arc frequently filled in with flowers. Skirt fullness is apt to be taken to the back and hem-length ,or uneven ribbon sashes are worn. One that took my attention recently was.in dim grey-green lace with flowers and sash of definitely dark tone and was worn with a broad and almost crownless, hat banded with ribbon that slotted through the brim at the back and hung in simple loops to the shoulder. Jaunty little Jackets, cut to hang open and revered in defined lines frequently are matched 'with a sash worn on a frock of plain light material. If the patterning ,of the jacket is one that can be easily appliqued it is sometimes1' used charmingly on hem or neckline.

One sees definitely fewer of the longer jackets. When one does encounter them it is noticeable that-they inakie no attempt ftt fastening but hang free, or are clipped in'by a little self belt. , From my notes I shall indicate three of the so-called simple frocks contributed by our foremost designers. THREE FROCKS FOR MORNING. One is In yellow and white ( a dainty lihe pattern .on a white ground, and is trimmed with tags and buckle of navy blue. The yoke of the bodice is cut to slope down to a central, as it were, inverted scollop from which run seven little tucks to give bodice fullness. The high round, neck -is collarless, ,but both it and the fitted very short sleeves are narrowly -bound with the navy and decorated;with tags—upward on -the outer arm ahd v downward" at the throat —which are secured with white but-