Niki of Paris Says ... Dress to Suit the Part

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

Niki of Paris Says ... Dress to Suit the Part

pAIUS designers have a very special formula for ensuring smartness on every occasion. They stress the necessity for dressing to suit the part, whatever it may be; and of considering simplicity at all times as the sure way to chic.

"When you play golf, thev say, dress Sthe part; and if it is a day at a country race meeting that you plan, then be clad suitably. This implies tweeds, of course, and if it is likely to bo wet underfoot, it implies also that you will be wise to wear good strong shoes or

rubber boots and not your newest slippers. The latter would be ruiued before long and quite invisible under a coating of mud and straw anyway! Then, on rainy days, how the designers criticise tho woman who persists in wearing a frivolously veiled hat with her stalwart raincoat, tweed suit and stout brogues! Hence you will understand why it is that smart Parisiennes, following the creed of the designers, dress equally suitably for those other more formal occasions which demand outfits ol a . more elaborate nature. The Little Frock Scores For afternoon and early evening engagements they find the little frock and matching topcoat almost without peer.' Sketched is an ensemble of this type which the renowned designer, Schinparelli, sponsored in a'recent collection. She introduced an unusual draped effect over the chest and shoulders of the black woollen coat, placed a single pocket at the hips on one side and fastened the front with three little black lions carved from wood. Tho youthful black dress worn beneath this coat is typically neat ye*

with more of the rippling drapery employed again at the chestline. The pillbox hat of the black woollen fabric padded into shape features black wings soaring upward.

See What's on Foot Now look at the quaint shoes, which are just one of those idiosyncrasies that Paris uses as the exception to provo the rulo of her habitual practicality. They are clogs with thick "platform" soles bound on to the foot with bands of draped fabric. Call them turbans for the feet, or what you will; the fact remains that, here, they are the most sensational footnote to this season's fashion story—the most unwarranted yet intriguing whim to be evolved since the turn of the century!