PARIS FASHION FREAKS.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 12 May 1910, Page 2

PARIS FASHION FREAKS.

H WOMEN IN TROUSERS. 0»e of the. latest crazes of the Parisiennc, says a Paris correspondent of the London "Mail," ia to w*ar trousers, or as nearly surh as she dares. The day when a) Rosa Bonheur or a Mme. Dieulafoy in masculine dress was a subject of remark and pleasantry among ta« boulevardiers has passed, and ,tho women whose skirts, if not actually replaced by trousers, are quite as tight, are less apt to attract attention just now than those who cling to the "demode" style, (which 1 made, some show of concealing the lower lines of the feminine figure. ! Heretofore the wearing of trousers by women in the French capital has been confined almost entirely to j

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Now, however, the fashionable dressmakers have frankly cast conventionality aside, and dress the more darimg of their mondaine customers in combination frocks, which are divided in front so as to form trouser legs, but still concede so much to propriety as to trail ofl in one piece at the back. The sensation caused by the appearance recently of pretty Pari'siennes in "jupes pantalons" wae equal to that which heralded* the slit-up-the-side' Directoire skirt o( last spring.

THE MAJORITY OF FASHIONABLE WOMEN

prefer to array themselves in what might be termed the one-leg trousei skirts, so narrow are they. Rut the disadvantage of this form of skirt is exactly that of the two-leg-ged garment of masculine cut—-it will bag at the knees. With all her coquetry, her love oi frills and furbelows, ono would expect the Frenchwoman to be ill at ease in trousers, but she is not. When she does wear trousers she does it well. She eschews i CORSETS AND OTHER FEMININE © ADORNMENT, though with the exception of Mme. Dieulafoy and Mme. de Montitaut, who are close cropped, she does her hair somewhat elaborately. Pictures of the actress Polaire in the title role of ""Le Petit Jedne Homme" show how well a French actress with the tiniest of waists and otherwise most , feminine ol figures can don trousers and really look .'■ QUITE BOYISH . In them. The poetess, Mme. Lucie Delarue Mardrus, in her Ulgerian expeditions with her husband, and Mme. Paul Franz-Namur in her Alpine climbs, wear knee breeches, Norfolk jackets, puttees, with, perfect grace and masculinity*