PARIS FASHIONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 October 1927, Page 15

PARIS FASHIONS.

STRAIGHT LINES THE DEGREE. The new fashions will have nothing Co uo with, curves. in lies are preierreu. ©traigut ones, U you please. rotas ox material and tiny tucus indicate the waistline. How hopeless you reel u you Haven't got one. xhere is isueli a strained look aoont the nips, you won tier wliat happens when me mannequin sits down. Among tne amusing features of the shows are peacock's tails or embroidered siiadea chiifon appearing on the evemg models, winch used to consider tnemselves sufficiently sensational by dropping anklewards at tn© back. The tan is a new idea.

And the mask veils. This is an inch or so of transparent tulle depending from the brim of a tiny hat. They veil the face entirely, all except the mouth, and the Erench calf them “kiss-me” veils. Dark blue is generally considered the most becoming shade to choose.

How nice and old-fashioned these things sound, waists and kiss-me veils. Hair is worn longer, too, and much curlier.

It is also amusing to wonder what they will do next to that most-good-te mpe red-of - a 11-m ateri al s—velvet. The latest of its subjections is to suffer itself to be rubbed the wrong way, until it resembles pony-skin. This is only- attempted with panne velvet, and the results are highly successful. When the dress designers run short of ideas, they take themselves to the kitchen for new ones, I believe. The latest novelty for sports costumes (resulting, obviously," from a store cupboard inspection) is the belt that is made of transparent isinglass! Velvet belts appear more striking by cutting the edges in saw-like teeth top and bottom. One of these put on to a sports dress of a grey woollen material is very effective.