THE NEW WALK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 9

THE NEW WALK.

A FELINE GRACE. The now lino in dresses and coats is bringing about a now walk. The mannequins always adapt themselves to their clothes very quickly, but the amateur is slower to realise that there must be a change in deportment when there is any drastic change of line in the dress, states a London writer. Take the new long, slim line which Jean Patou has designed. From the hips to the knees he binds the figure, and all movement comes from the knees. Tall and Slim, the mannequins moved with remarkable grace, not swaying from tho hips, with their heads'" "like bell-flowers buoyant," and their shoulders slightly stooping. Patou is clamouring for the feminine type of woman to come into fashion again; clearly he will have her frail and slender. Take, again, the now Poiret model. A woman is dressed to show rounded curves. Slender if you will, but not straight up and down. Then there are the Lanvin styles, girlish, slender, with free-flowing draperies which leave the figure undefined. The new walk has not yet evolved, since fashions are contradictory. But it is sure that a feline grace is being sought after by the dressmakers, and women will be expected to move and sit .more softly than they do now, All the boyish gestures, attitudes and movements of a year ago are oldfashioned. Ono leading modellist declares that she is inspired by the modes of midEdwardian days and is seeking to give to bustles asid paniers that graceful dip at tho sides which make «*ven plump women look slender and short women look tall.