At The Theatre of Fashion FIRST ACT OF SPRING COMEDY "MADAME, PARIS SAYS SO!

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 17

At The Theatre of Fashion FIRST ACT OF SPRING COMEDY "MADAME, PARIS SAYS SO!

Styles May Come & Styles May Go —But the Slender Silhouette Remains Supreme.

Fas Mom’s Decrees In Terms of Silks, Satins and Laces

The Newest French Modes Adhere Strictly to the Straight and Narrow Way.

Written for THE SUN by Huia Mase

SLIM as a wisp of smoke . . . smart as a clipped epigram . . . breathing the very spirit of the Paris that gave her birth, THE SLENDER SILHOUETTE will play the leading part in the enchanting play of springtime fashions. In a dazzling setting of riotous colour befitting her luxuriant beauty she will make her gracious bow to her eager audience . . .. Everywoman! On a shaft of sapphire blue limelight spring will advance with lissom walk to the centre of the fashion stage, the while her colour turns in fickle fashion to the most delicate nuance of lotus rose . . . flickers back to blue as though loth to leave that heavenly shade . . . hints at a dewily verdant green . . . bathes her in a dazzling mist of white . . . and then invests her with the radiance of a million black and white and sparkling silver sequins that seem, to reflect a moonlight night.

All about her will cling a subtle odour of delicious springtime freshness that will be an integral part of the first charming Parisian gestures of Spring, 1927. Through shyly-parted curtains will follow quickly in the wake of our charming leading lady, The Tailleur, that perennial in fashion’s flower gardens, seen this time in a delightful character combining the simplicity that is essential with the individuality that is desired. Afternoon Gowns will make theii new debut in a variety of captivating phases ... in a diversity of materials ... in colours that have captured the pastel tints of a misted rainbow . . . with here and there a charming glimpse of spring’s beloved blue. Sports Clothes will naturally play a most important part in the pageant of spring modes, and their correct, svelte lines will give to them an ap-

pearance even more distingue than they ever possessed before. A Beauty Chorus will be composed of new and intriguing millinery, shoes and accessories from the reptilian world, and a thousand and one interesting fancies that provide a wondrous background for the principal fashion characters of spring. Ever and anon the principals and chorus in this sparkling show will be heard in a lilting refrain that promises to run throughout the season of spring: “We’ve got the blues, we’ve got the blues, We've oot those or eve, ere vella. Frisca, Jcasha blues We’ve got the blues, we’ve got the blues. We’ve got those mist, mistier, Midnight, moonlight blues. . . And who can blame them? Last season we had the reds, especially the

L wine-reds, to such an intoxicating extent that one might be forgiven for assuming that the Parisian colour artists had conspired together to force 1 upon the world a subtle wedge of silent propaganda against prohibition! Now, Dame Fashion having found i that we are determined at all costs to . remain faithful to our slender silhouette, has had to rack her brains to know what she can change for us, and appropriately enough has followed up cur long season of addiction to the wines with a very decided spell of , blues. But what alluring blues they are to be . . . and what charming forms they J will take In all their manifold expressions, as spring proceeds to play out her bewitching comedy of modes! The Evening Gown will appear in many daring yet restrained interpretations of modern thought . . . subtly sophisticated or exquisitely simple as you please.