WOMAN’S WORLD

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2314, 5 December 1925, Page 4

WOMAN’S WORLD

FASHIONS I'HOM PARIS, The best dress houses in Paris still maintain in their models the chic simplicity which spells success, whether they be taiilcurs, coat-frocks day dresses or evening gowns.

The 1923 T ailor Made. In tailor-made suits only has the raised waist-line been actually emphasised; and this not by acute pinohings-in, but by perfection of cut and the introduction of well.placed gussets and seams. So that the modern tailored coat, while permitting the suggestion of a ‘figure’, leaves us free as ever to enjoy life without the constraint of steels and whalebone!

Tailored skirts remain short and plain; freedom of movement is gain, od by means of an inverted pleat in the centre front, or by a scries of fiat pleats inset below the hip-line; some models still show the fold-over skirt, which is really as comfortable and smart os any. dumper Suits. The Jumper suit shows no signs of

■waning popularity; in fact, it is more in favour than ever. Some engaging little models have slim, fold-over skirts, and hip-length noyieh Jumpers set into neat shoulder yokes something after Hie Norfolk jacket style. Inset long sleeves and smart

leather belts at an almost normal waistline make of them very adept.| able toilettes for morning or sports wear. The collar may be worn close up to the throat and finished with a large ‘artist’ bow, or the Jumper may be cut with a frankly high neck — not stiffly boned, but softly swathed and as becoming as it Is smart. Day Gowns. Day gowns are charming! Some very intriguing models are cut on Princess lines, lifting fairly closely to the figure from shoulder to hips, thence widening slightly into the approved Princess ‘Hare’. These are, of course, untrimmed, save for ruffles of lace at the wrists and a dainty fichu at the thoat. Crepe de chine with a printed border is used for more un. sophisticated afternoon frocks. The border is employed with excellent effect for a deep hem, a swathed sash, and turnover collar and cuffs. For Evening Wear. Evening gowns favour variously the tunic, the godet or the gathered effect. For the jeune fllie, the prettiest frocks are those of light, gauzy tulle or fine lace, posed over a roundatlon, slim and straight, of satin or silver tissue. The tullo or lace veils without completely hiding, the rich foundation, which may be cut several inches shorter than the overdress. A long tulle or lace scarf, a few feather flowers, or perhaps a velvet flower or a bunch of indigestible looking fruit —and you have a charming piquant toilette. For more imposing gowns, metal tissue, lame, velvet, moussellne de soie, chiffon —but not of the printed variety—and lace are the favoured fabrics. Mousseline de soie and lace combine to make some very er. fectlve dinner Itnd dance gowns; metal tissue, in gold, silver, or in shot effects. i s used for more ceremonial toilettes; lame is popular for almost any occasion, though, it should be noted, it is more suited to the oldr woman than to the debutante. Chiffon is charming; almost as charming as tulle, in Its new shaded colours. The manufacturers are now producing both tulle and chiffon, which shade from the deepest to the palest tint of the chosen colour. A very pretty frock is In all the shades of mauve, commencing at the hem with quite a deep purple, passing through the various violet shades and finishing in the softest lavender tint. All the shades are repeated in the sash of narrow satin ribbons,, the long ends of which fall below liie skirt hem. Talking of ribbons, they are greatly favoured for trimmings. One or two dresses have been made entirely of wide satin ribbons In various tones of one colour, or in three or four distinct, harmonising colours. And very effective they are! The ribbons are joined together with a fancy stitch to form the bodice, while each strand is attached separately at the waist-line to form the skirt, which is posed over a satin slip in the same shade as the darkest of lightest of the ribbon. Ostrich feather trimming is liked; so, to,, is seed pearl and crystal em. broidery. But bead embroidery is not so highly prized ns of yore, and is much more sparsely used on tire ! fimartfiaf. trowjaa.

| THE 'UNDERSTANDABLE MALE. (By Ann Travis.) The trouble started when Beryl asked her adoring', faithful Tom which, of all the frocks she had worn,’ ho loved and remembered most. The poor man stuttered and stammered .till dually, driven into a corner, he murmured something about a ‘blue thing- with spots on’. A cheap, roady.mnde thing! with a vision of past alluring frocks before her eyes, Beryl’s wrath rose; she I accused him of ‘not noticing’—of InI difference —and ended up with the impassioned statement that he “didn’t understand a woman one little bit”. And of course he didn’t. No rcalb nice husband-man ever does. When she is longing for a romantic tete-a-tete, he will persist in discussing drains or the cost of living. If she fancies she is looking slinky and mysterious, a la Pola Negri, he is quite capable of asking whether she has got a pain, Altogether a hope, less creature —and yet how ideal a husband compared with .that sieck male -who understands women from A to 53, Ho always knows exactly what to say and when to say it; he can give you excellent advice on what- clothes suit you best; ho has a graceful way of dancing attendance on you—in fact, he knows what -woman like. At first, it interests and pleases; then you gradually develop an uneasy feeling; he understands women because he has spent a lifetime study, ing many of them —a pastime he will certainly not relinquish. And with understanding comes criticism. However well-dressed you tried to bo, you would always feel that he had found some flaw, however charming and attractive you made yourself, you would know that by comparison with all the virtues of all the other women he has understood, you must seem fairly ordinary and humdrum. For a casual companion ,the understanding man fa possible—but for a comfortable, comforting husband, choose, I beg you, an undlseerning old dear who will love you blindly and find you equally attractive in a Paquin creation, or in —a “blue thing with spots on”! KING IN THE KINGLET CURLS. Longer skirts; fuller skirts, fitting bodices; puffy sleeves dainty frills and flounces; posies a ’glowing and a ‘blowing over our evening frocks — and ringlet curls!—all these charms aro to be ours this season, if we will! The new ’movement is responsible tor all sorts of delicious ‘new.old’ gestures. But none so charming, I think, as the two little ringlet curls which are to meander over each fair cheek when Miss 1925 takes her seat at the opera, or appears in the balllllllllllllllll

ililillliilllll room. The sleeker the head, the neater the shingle, the more engaging do these little curls look. Dark or fair' with hair brushed back from the brow, or allowed to wave becomingly over it, the two little bobbing side curls will enhance the boauly of the well-dressed head. And with fichus, and taffetas frills, with little bits of tulle and little bits of lace; with intriguing fans, and Victorian posies, already In the ‘offing’, the corkscrew ringlets and downcast eyes are bound to happen! Victorian maids were what tney looked, or they tried to make men think they werol Georgian maids may be—anything! But they are going to look as sweet and simple and demure as the most sweetly simple Victorian heroine who ever got into a novel! And much more intriguing! The Pirate. She steals your Ideas; fend uses them, either in their original form, or judiciously disguised. She steals the design of your new frock; she steals the shape of your new hat. She steals your furnishing schemes; she probably steals your maid. She would no doubt steal your husband if she could. But he, goo‘d man, has eyes for no —one but you, and turns deaf ears to her gentle guile. And you? Well you pretend to be dreadfully annoyed; quite furious. In fact, and you say that one day you will give her a ‘pieUfi of your mind’. But are you really angry? Aren’t you,, on the contfary rather flattered subtly pleased, that you are so near someone’s ‘ideal’ that you are worth copying? Isn’t it rather nice to feel that your taste in dress, in furnisnIng, In domestic arrangements .even in husbands .appeals to other people? Of course it is! And the moment your dearest • enemy ceases rrom copying that moment will you feel ’out of it’, a back number. The women who is ‘pirated’shame, lessly by her friends is the woman who is clever,, charming, gifted In some way or other. If no-one admires you sufficiently to copy you, you have simply ceased to count! So never worry. Give of your best always. The original thought or scheme or idea Is yours, and only you can' bring It to perfect fruition. The reproduction counts for no morn than a bit of paste compared with a diamond—except as balm to your woman’s souL

FOR EATER AND FOR EVER. They say our very language is changing with, the change in habits manners, customs and all the endless ange of interests mechanical Which make our Age of Speed. .. . That fliere is much of truth In this, no .ve’re all agreed. The devastating slang that irks an older, gentler mind; the stuff Youth makes its current coin of commune with its kind, is blatantly and shamelessly Increasing every day; there’s no mistake, our noble tongue is In a ■ad, sad way And yet. . . there’s still a perfect speech wo never shall forsake. . .

Our lips may desecrate the words (hat William Shakespeare spake; and we may mock with modern jibes old poets’ rhapsodies. . . . But Love still speaks as Love spoke then, from true young lovers’ eyes!