FASHIONS FOR WOMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 11

FASHIONS FOR WOMEN.

AUTUMN AND WINTER SHOWS

The first collections of autumn and] winter fashions have been shown in i Paris. Marcel Rochas has made a very] youthful collection. He retains (writes | a Londoner) the fashion of putting dark and light colours together in one ensemble. He uses velvet to trim Cloth and crepe. The waistline is raised in front, giving to the dresses something of the Empire or Directoire grace. Red ill several shades is used for morning and afternoon dresses and coats, brown is more worn than black, green has a place in the collection, and for the evening a good deal ot lame is ' used, especially for simple dinner dresses wliich are short ana straight. Long skirts are slit in front almost to the knee. . Germaine Bailly shows an important collection which leans towards the picturesque. There is a grey tweed coat, cut loose and of three-quarter length, with which goes a short, slender skirt, a brown blouse, a red bow .at the neck, a red suede belt and a big gilt leaf clasp. Again, there is a cool green tweed skirt, worn with a blouse of red and green tartan in miniature and a long green cape lined to match the blouse. A pigskin belt goes round the waist of the blouse. For the afternoon there are tunics in striking patterns and colours. They are worn over slender dark skirts with three-quarter length coats to match. AFTERNOON DRESSES.

The simple afternoon dresses are short, straight, and may have front and back panels indicated by ribbed seams. One or two have full backs. The neckline is high under the chin and lower at the back ot the nock. Dress sleeves are either cut as those called bishop, or they may be mildly leg of mutton. The waistline is raised in front. DaiU-faced silk dresses are trimmed with velvet in the same colour, cut to strips in different sizes and applied in patterns. A simply cut brown dress is decorated in this "my and has a big gilt clasp at the waist. No other touch of brightness is used on the dress. An almond green woollen dress is trimmed with broad bands ot black velvet arranged in broad panels and narrow bands, the former to run straight up and down back and front, the hitter to go horizontally about the shoulders. Evening dresses r.e long and very much slit about the hem. They have tunics long sleeves, low backs, and waistlines which are high m front. A very lovely-»brown velvet dress has the bodice and hips honeycombed, and long tight, honeycombed sleeves, a very full yet clinging front to the 'skirt, nnd a straight back. With it goes a cap with scarf to wind about the shoulders or throat. The whole thing has the statei]y simplicity of dresses in medieval times.