PARIS FASHIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21829, 16 December 1932, Page 17

PARIS FASHIONS

In Worth’s half-season fashions slategrey and pale beige in a rough woollen material are the two principal colours (says The Times). Brown and black are for the evening, and there is some brown for the day. Rough woollens, jerseyvelvet, jersey, crinkled crepon, black and brown satin, lynx and fox furs, and sealskin are the principal materials._ White washing collars and ties trim black, brown, and grey dresses. Buttons with steel rims, steel and copper bangles and buckles, coloured leather and suede belts, are other trimmings. To slim straight skirts are attached bodices which fit close and button on one side; they are straight in front, and the long sleeves arc puffed at the top. Three-quarter coats, or more usually short capes with deep bands of fur at the edges, go with the dresses. A plain brown woollen dress has a long cape. A slate-grey crepe dress has a threequarter coat trimmed with grey sealskin. A light beige woollen dress and cape are worn with a tomato-red belt and hat. A black dress has a white scarf collar. A black and grey plaid crepe dress is trimmed with white organdie. A black crepe satin dress shows both the dull and the shiny side of the material. Brown and black satin dinner dresses are made with low-cut backs and skirts which reach to the instep, and though full enough are rather narrow. The shoulder straps are very slight; the waist is set at the natural line. Mainbocher is making shorter skirts; they are slim, but fairly full about the knees. Bodices are cut with the neck lines slightly open and with a crooked line Sleeves are long and set in at the shoulders. Belts about an inch and a-quarter wide are set at a moderately high line, dipping slightly in front and fastening behind. With every dress goes some little shoulder wrap: the long stole which can bo worn as a crossover is the most frequent. A straight hand of material. satin, poplin, net, organdie, with a loosely gathered flounce on each side and across the ends, makes an afternoon or evening wrap. Flat silk and satin bows are spread over the front of the bodices of several dresses in a bolero line; bows are also loosely tied on the left shoulder. Belts are of gold and silver military braid or of bright ribbon, or they may be copper or steel buckles. Sleeves are simple and long, but do not reach the wrist. Bong, soft gauntlet gloves are drawn well up the arm. Big bunches of flowers, or large single flowers, are worn at the waist or in front of the bodice on evening dresses and at the waist on afternoon drosses. There is much black, both for the day and evening. Pale beige in soft rough-surface woollens is for the morning, with a gold or coloured bolt, while four fox skins in light and dark brown hang from the shoulders Black crepe dresses have gilt belts and gilt-edged buttons. A paie grey drrss of crepe de chine is worn wit'll a long navy blue coat and a blue deerstalker’s hat with cocks’ feathers. A pale beige dress is worn with a long indian red coat, belt, and red hat. A black dress also has a long red coat and belt. Figured black and white, brown and white, green and white satin dresses have the pattern cut out to lie as leaves across the top of the arm; a bertha frill lies about the shoulders of others; some have crossover bands from the waist behind brought over the shoulders to a bertha line in trout. All evening skirts are wide about the feet, and when there is no frill on the shoulders there is a frilled stole ns a wrap. Lemonnier is using velvet and fur, felt and fur, feathers and felt, velvet alone, in black and white and in colours for her hats. Smail shapes which fit the ciowm and may bo draped softly about the brim are made in colours 1o suit dresses, and in black can be worK with almost any dress and coat. The kigberowned hat has not become popular; a hat should be one in style with the dress, and that is why there are so many fur and fur-trimmed small h.aU.