FASHIONS FROM PARIS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1929, Page 15

FASHIONS FROM PARIS

FROM A FARISIENNE'S NOTEBOOK

Paris, Dec. 6. All last season we wore jumper suits on every possible occasion. There was even an attempt to produce an evening frock of jumper suit design, sleeveless, but with a straight loose top and a finely pleated skirt. Jumper suits were by way of being an obsession. The dressmakers simply thrust them on us. Then they found we did not want to give them, up, and they produced them for every kind of function so that wo should get tired of them. ( Their ruse seems to have succeeded very well. Some women, ot course, will continue to wear jumper suite to the end of their days, but most of us realise how nice it is to have a one-piece frock to slip into occasionally. A PARIS DECREE. . . Paris is encouraging the woman who likes the afternoon frock. Dressmakers are concentrating on it, and very soon we shall be as smart at a tea-party as we are at a dance. The newest long-sleeved frocks are quite elaborate. Sleeves, I think, help to make them so, for there haa. never been a time when the arms have been covered so gracefully and with so much beauty. There are a hundred ways of cutting a sleeve now, and everyone agrees that an assembly of jvomen is much more picturesque than it was in the days when arms wore displayed, regardless of redness, roughness and superfluous flesh. Draped sleeves are not so much - seen as they were. Nothing looked more lovely than the fluttering “wings” and the wide handkerchief cuffs of a few months ago, but it has to be admitted that they were a trial, except for women who could sit and do nothing all day. 7 SOFTER MATERIALS. Now, all the sleeves of the new afternoon j frocks are more or less moulded to the arm, and most of them finish with quaint little wrist-bands. Materials are so soft, though, that they are never clumsy-looking. All the crepe fabrics are being advocated in Paris, with crepe de chine as first favourite, for these afternoon frocks. Lace is popular, too, especially beige lace, which the majority of women like and find most becoming. There are frills on collars, some ■of which droop right to. the waist-linef at the back; there are frills on cuffs; and frilled jabots trim many plain corsages. Tiny pleats in groups decorate both skirts and bodices, and are found, too, running from shoulder to wrist of the newest tight sleeve. Fringe is another popular notion, and many silk crepe frocks exploit a wide, rounded collar trimmed with fringe wide enough to fall several inches over each shoulder.