PARIS MODES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16621, 18 August 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

PARIS MODES.

OrK Parisienne correspondent writes — The most popular hats are in shiny straw | with high crowns and wide brims, and | tete de nigre is the colour a la mode. I Sometimes the hat shows no trimming but j a ribbon or string or beads, sometimes it ; has a softening fall of tulle round the edge | of the brim, and a ribbon draped round j the crown, and sometimes the crown is trimmed with ribbon sewn fiat to. meet in I a point at the top with the straight ends resting on the brim all round. A brown hat will have ribbons in blue, in red, or in green, and always in dull tones. A : black or a blue hat may have grey or I white, or a strips of black and white. The I shiny straw hat may also be entirely draped with tulle, and is in this way becoming to all, for hard, shiny straw does not. suit everyone if left in all its crude hardness, any more than shiny satin dresses suit all women alike. The Love of Jersey.

Jersey is very popular in Paris again, and is to be seen both in dress form with coat to match, as well as in the long overcoat in a different colour from the rest of the toilette. • A grey jersey embroidered very sparsely with blue looks well in a long coat, and there are some charming arrangements in grey and green, grey and coral, grey and black, also for long coats. They need no lining, and they hang well, and the material is one that suits everyone. It is by the way that I would suggest the importance of material in the choice of a dress or coat or hat. So much depends on it, and when economy is the rule of the day it is well to be awake to such details. You may get the colour you like, and have the cut you like, but if the material is wrong the dress will not be all it might be. A satin that is too shiny, a cloth that is harsh, makes all the difference. And this is why jersey is a safe thing to have. It looks just as well in one colour as another—a thing which cannot be said of ratine or serge and it wears well. It needs no trimming beyond a hint of embroidery, and. although smart, it never looks out of place. In. the form of a little dress it is simply ideal, and as a tailor-made it always looks well. In white it looks ultra-smart, perhaps; but when the cummer comes a little extra license in dress may be allowed to the young and pretty. Shepherd's Plaid. Spring in Paris always shows a certain number of smart women in shepherd's plaid, and some women always look well in it. Recently I saw a glim young person, wearing a little coat and skirt of small plaid, with boots of shiny black and cloth tops in a very email black-and-white check to go with the coat and skirt, and on her head the smartest of black toques, with a high, full crown bunching out at one side, and a little brim lined with white. A jet buckle was the only ornament this little hat of silk and straw showed. The gloves were white, stitched with black. The very thin woman in shepherd's plaid does not look so well as the one who can claim softly rounded limbs and cheeks, and she should not be too-tall. Neither should she try to suggest any hint of colour in the* costume, but be satisfied with one note of bright- : ness given by a bit of gleaming jet or I leather.

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