SPRING FASHIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23292, 14 June 1939, Page 15

SPRING FASHIONS

PARIS—I 939 Crisis—war scares—strikes —revolutions—yet all over Paris busy fingers arc fashioning exquisite accessories to inspire trade throughout the world. Seamstresses, embroiderers, famous artists, lace makers, button makers, mannequins, couturiers —the whole industry in fact—is determined to make 1939 a landmark in fashion history, writes Hetty K. Prentis in the ‘ Journal of the International Wool Secretariat.’ Every aspect of the fashion business in Paris is traditional and interesting—the little embroiderer will never do as fine work in any other city—she depends for ideas on the dissolute artist in Montmartre—who gets his colour notbs from his little friend the midinette. And so it goes on—fashion i$ a personal thing—nursed in Paris to build a great industry. This year sees complete , colour change, particularly beautiful in woollen fabrics, and the completion of a stylo change. Not for years have skirts been so full (one model I saw had 4,3 metres of fabric in it). Never before have so many spring and summer models boon in wool, and never before lias wool been so eiichantingly feminine.

And we must bless Paris that she has brought in a fashion so thoroughly and so charmingly that within two months every woman who can will find it essential to buy new clothes or she will look frankly and obviously dowdy. Colour is now. line is new, madam must buy.