In the Paris Shops

Southland Times, Issue 19897, 16 June 1926, Page 11

In the Paris Shops

Lacquered green leaves, as trimming on a fine straw hat, made to look like lizard skin. Balls of charming silk flowers that unsnap to contain a handkerchief—very handy for the keen dancing girl. Scent bottles from Paris are made in enamelled glass, and have a long glass dropper for applying the scent easily and not too generously to the handkerchief. A basket of yellow mapolica filled with yellow leaves and very decorative mauve

and purple grapes of the same ware was placed in the middle of a table made of w'ax-polished burr walnut. A fob made of seed pearls, woven into a pattern like the popular bracelets of the moment, and with a tassel of pearls at the end, was pinned by a mannequin the other

day into the base of the V-shaped corsage opening of the beige georgette “Ascot” model she was showing. BUCKLES FOR ALL. In Paris shops the variety of buckles is bewildering. There are buckles large enough to cover the toe of any ordinary shoe, others small enough to look lost on it, and all attractive. It is not shoes alone that disport buckles. Hats have buckles, so have girdles and coats. One can have buckles in gold, silver, steel, or enamel, but steel is preferred by women who object to anything that can be imitated. There is no sham about steel, and nothing cheap. Having invested all her “trimmings” money in a single bauble, as she is apt to do, it is the purchaser’s duty to guard her treasure. She must protect it from sea air, dust it well and put it away wrapped in tissue paper. But a handsome steel buckle is worth the trouble.