Masculine Fashions And Feminine Frivolities

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 10

Masculine Fashions And Feminine Frivolities

PARIS. Aug. ID. jV/TASGULIXE fashions com rusted with feminine frivolities in autumn and winter style showings by Paris dress makers during the last It) day's. Swallowtail jackets', coachmen’s coals and mannish tweed suits offset line brocaded petticoats, basque bodices and old-fashioned bell skirts fiyds. wide. The Directoirc period inspired the long tailed cutaway- jackets and redingote coats. Their wide revers headed double breasted closings and outlined frilled shirt bosom fronts. A in,ore masculine influence was seen in tall stove-pipe stylo hats; also knee breeches under split evening skirts and satin trousers under lace. Feminine repercussions were seen in windblown rippled back flares of coats, jackets, drosses and dress skirts slit rhe full length to show petticoat fronts. . Fox heads topped velvet turbans and veils floated off the backs of victoria boaters. Some evening muffs had clusters of violets and gardenias. Day silhouettes stressed a flare up at hip, knee oj- hem. Skirt, hems soared to new bights both as to length and width, while shoulders became more normal. Fur trimmings included astrakhan, fox, lynx, and sealskin.