FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 January 1929, Page 15

FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK.

(By YVONNE RODIER.) All the long dresses launched, so far this season flow lower at the back than in front, but the ultra-exaggerated long line behind and short line in front have “disappeared from circulation,” as the French folk say. Bizarre notes, in fact, whether of line or colour, are “off the map” of the best-known couturieres. Evening shoes, though they have never been more fanciful, are none the less in good taste. Crepe de chine is a close rival to satin for the exclusive evening shoe to match the frock. The trend of the smartest slices is indicated by high heels and high insteps. Gold and silver kid are elaborately used as trimmings. Straps are embroidered, and heels are stridden with stones. Jewelled buckles are worn to hold the strap coming from the hack of the shoe, and vamps are mostly plain and fairly long and slender. Quite a number of shoes are composed of two fabrics light and dark. More fashionable than all-gold or all-silver are crepe and satin trimmed with gold, silver, or jewelled embroidery. Shoes for daytime wear, with “towny” clothes, are again of the decorative order ; but for sports wear the Parisienne likes to he in the English movement, so to speak. It is “chic to have English-made shoes in bucxskin, canvas, crocodile, and other ) leathers of the sporting genre. Coiffure is of increasing importance in all sartorial schemes. M. de Coiffeur supplies skilful little “extras’ to place across the hack of the head, covering the nape of the neck. There are also “ear” curls, and very attractive short curls worn at the hack when the hair is now wrapped across. The tiny shignon is the recognised thing for" evening wear, and makes a satisfy--1112; change for tlio bobbed and sninglfid the latter being now in the conspicuous minority. Bobbing is the general rule; and in all cases the hair is worn longer.