SPORTS FASHION CREATOR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13108, 16 November 1935, Page 5

SPORTS FASHION CREATOR.

PARISIANS RISE TO FAME. It lias become a habit to associate French women with frills and sumptuous satins and all that which makes for the luxurious and the ornamental in life. So it is all the more surprising to find a small and dainty Parisian who embodies in herself the styles suitable for all manner of real sport. Yet such is Anny Blatt, the woman to whom the biggest yarn-makers in France comq for ideas, and who five years ago was a society woman, devoted to her flowers and her garden, and in no way concerned or interested in the business world and its problems.

“My husband lost 50.000,000 francs (over £*1.000,000) in two

weeks just over three years ago, so she explained her entrance into business. Before the financial disaster, Madame Blatt had had all that money could buy. She had houses in Paris and country estates. she had horses and all the jewels that a spoilt woman might wish for. And then one dav it was all gone.

Madame Blatt hiul studied painting, and it- is this, joined to her passionate love (if Nature, which gives her that infallible sense ot colour, so distinctive Q,f her work. Daughter of a. man who was a spin-E-er* and wife of a man whose business. was cotton, she apparently absorbed technical information without realising it; for, when the moment came for her to plunge into business, she just naturally turned to yarns and those things which can be made of them. In three years she has become the

creates new ones for the yarn manufacturers. She tells them what new tbreads can be made, and just how they should be woven in order to obtain surfaces in the knitted garments that have not been seen before.

Sho has a positive genius in handling yarns. The- most daring ideas arc hers in Paris to-day regarding knitted garments, ideas which others talco up much later, aiid winch enter the field ot popular consumption a tear after their creation. But to invent a now yarn and to have it knitted into a most

intricate pattern does not make a garment. There is the colour and the cut. and in these two Madame Blatt has the artist’s eye. DUCHESS OF KENT’S C LOTHES. The Duchess of Kent's Hair for elegant simplicity in dress was never more apparent than when she opened the new wing of the SouthEastern Hospital for Children in London, writes a London correspondent. NYeairing a navy blue crepe-de-chene dress patterned with small white spots and a hip-length sleeveless coatee of the same material with a shoulder cape to the elbows, the Duchess evoked the admiration of the crowd who had waited two hours to see her. A silver fox fur hung over her felt shoulder, and she wore an ideal hat for the somewhat windy afternoon—one of plain navy blue felt, with the briln turned off the face and fastened to the crown, creating a halo effect. At the back was a tiny bow. als NYi ist-h ngth navy blue su *de gloves left her arms bare to the elbows. and she carried a small naw blue handbag. Navy blue kid shoes, the heels not too high, completed her ensemble. Her only jewellery was a small diamond clip worn at the throat. Before opening the new wing ot the hospital the Duchess received purses • Marina greet each of which contained not less than to towards the cost of the extension..