Fashion Notes.

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6746, 2 January 1932, Page 11

Fashion Notes.

TAILOR-MADE# RETURN. VELVETS TO FIGURED. (By a Paris Expert.) Ono of the principal novelties for this season, is tho introduction of tailormade clothes (not to bo mistaken for sports clothes), which is considered the most elegant style of dressing during tho day. This, however, does not prevent the dressmakers showing a good selection of woollen robes do sport. Velvet is sure again to be prime favourite, as well as figured panne. This latter is destined, it is said, to replace satin. Tweeds are to retain a place ot honour. The new ones are extremely colourful, and some of them remind one of nothing so much as a field of many coloured flowers, seen from tho air. There are many types of tweed; some are finely and closely woven, in one colour, or in two not very different shades of the same colour. Others are so open that, in tho proverbial phrase, you could almost sew peas through them, and so full of dots and clumps of colour that the entire palette seems to bo represented. Some look like jerseys, till you examine tho direction of their threads. Tho jerseys on the other hand, from a little distance, look exactly like tweeds.' The erepy woollens have a tendency towards ever-increasing suppleness, 'flic broadcloth weaves appear for coats, and this is ono of the leading winter materials. A good many plaids appear, and even among silks wo find numerous plaids. Stripes are not so numerous, and polka dots seem to bo dying, though, like Charles 11., they are taking a long time about it. ° Models for the Coming Winter.

Tho models for the coming winter are m be nothing but variations of last season’s theme, with an unproved cut undeveloped. Dipping skirts are coining back into tho lin'd of '.asliion. No one, on the day that dipping skirts were first presented, could have malison what a success they would turn out to be. However, one thing is certain, and that is that the skimpy round-skirted gowns are no longer acceptable. They have had their vogue, and wero certainly most attractive. However, when an attractive stylo is too much seen it should, i.-.eu if seal CuusUmnd atvnitlvi. bo abandoned. Skirts are no longer than they wero last season. They certainly reach to the ground —the evening ones that is to say—in places, but never hide the limbs. Skirts, in any solid texture, hiding tho feet entirely belong to a bygono period. As to waistline, they are undoubtedly rising, and the models, close-fitting from shoulder to below tho hips, look particularly smart when worn with a belt placed rather high up, the effect produced being ono of extraordinary length, provided the woman is well built. However, for the women whoso figures it suits best, the waist, worn lower down, is preferable. Imitation Jewels. Twenty-live years ago, the discovery that any woman wore imitation jewels would have disgraced her. Tho oldfashioned kind of imitation jewels was a form of deception which tho year 1831 has definitely abolished. As a substitute we have invented the bijou-illusion, a make-believe gem composed of genuine matter, such as scraps of blown glass (genuine), crystallised gellaiito (genuine), bits of faceted mirror (genuine). Good taste in decorative jewels, in contrast to sophisticated simplicity ot clothes, requires an illusiou of unsurpassed splendour achieved by supernatural size and luminosity. Why? In order that all semblance of reality may bo destroyed, with no room left for deception. Tho wearing of imitation jewels with chic, means treating them as women might formerly have treated their ostrich feather boas and accessorics made to harmonise with their frock. Tho fact that modern mentality in

jewels runs to sizo above all things, is patent. Historical peari necklaces, such as are owned by famous duchesses, huve of late been found to pale before tho glittering bits of luminous mirrors simulating diamonds of enormous size, of the kind at present finding favour with the very smartest women in Paris. Autumn Millinery. There is a fascination about featkci trimming which one never sees, somehow, with qny other. A couple of perky quills perched on tho side of ono’s hat, has an extraordinary ornamental effect. They are being used charmingly on some of the new 1830 shapes, a shape which is neither beret nor toque, but a little hat with tho brim roiled away from the face. Memo of the round caps which cover the back of tho hoad are very becoming, they have once more made their bow to tho public adorned with an ostrich feather, fcjomc of them have a gros-grain ribbon, attached to thefn at the back, but unattached in front, so that there are soveral inches of hair showing between the ribbon and the caps themselves. Felt hats are not totally abandoned. Felts as thin as satin are the materials of some of the smart street hats. Knitted and crocheted sports and street hats are still part of the picture, but tho new ones have brims, and these brims are frequently faced with silk or velvet. Felt hats that look like a Chinese headdress aro being offered by some milliners in Paris.