PARIS JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 5

PARIS JOTTINGS.

SPRING SUITS. If you have a friend who is surveying dolefully her last year's tweed coat and is wondering what she can do with ,it tell her that she can turn the old garment into a bolero suit by mixing just a little thought with her materials. There will be enough materia] in the coat to make a tight skirt with three inverted pleats in the front, and a bolero-*with deep armholes and rounded edges, and no fastenings, of course. With this a jumper, fitting tight at the hips, should be worn (perhaps the coat lining would afford this), and it would be greatly enhanced by a little patient cross-stitch work round the hips and wrists of the jumper. A brigand belt could be worn with a bolero suit like this. One which has an enormous buckle .they cannot be too big for the present fashion) made of glass beads or just strips of coloured leather bound with gold. There is an amusing new collar seen on the furless costs now, made of black patent leather, on which is sewn a quantity o! lead-coloured heads, whieh givea an exact resemblance to caviare. Mock collars are made by means of silk embroidered spots, white braid or white China beads sewn closely together on coats of dark cloth. I haven't said anything for a long time about stockings or gloves, because there has been no change to chronicle. We seem to love our beige silk stockings as much as ever (they must be really beige, to look right; the piqkish shades are not in very good taste), and as for gloves, though many elaborate kinds "are shown and advertised, I never see well dressed women wearing anything but perfectly plajji sqede or antelope, without any trimming or fastening, in some shade of fawn, gre" or brown. Shoes for day wear are either pumps, one-strap shoes, or "Oxfords" J:hat is to say, low-cut laced shoes, With clothes of the sports type, the latter are the newest and smartest. . For evening there are satin pumps, and a huge assortment ef strapped and sanda] shapes. But if you are out to dazzle, you must, samehow or other, get hold of a pair of jeweh led Jieels —the stones, of coiirse, matching your frock. For an atmosphere of reckless gaiety, almost approaching gilded vice, give me jewelled heels every single time!