NOTES FROM PARIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17575, 27 June 1925, Page 18 (Supplement)

NOTES FROM PARIS.

„ - shoulder yoke will'be one of the eatures-of the spring fashions. It figures on all the new models, and is ”erta.inJy an improvement. Dresses with yokes set better than those without, and a joke adds a line of Trace to shoulders and neck. So far, these yokes arc tiny affairs, that are more like shaped bands than the deep, cumbersome things of former years. Another feature of the coming season will be the gradual disappearance of the sleeveless dress. All the new models are fitted with sleeves. True, they are small, unobtrusive affairs for the present, but they represent the thin end of the wedge. Sometimes the sleeves are puffed, sometimes plain and ini shed with a binding put on on the cross, and sometimes they arc a little wider and slit down the outside, so that the flaps fall back to reveal’the arm underneath. Evening dresses, in the. full sense of v l continue to remain sleeveless; it is the afternoon frocks, t.ie dance and little dinner frocks that are rejoicing in the luxurv of a tiuv sleeve. Here are two quaint little devices for introducing novelty into a dance frock. 1 rom the shoulders at the back of vour dress hang two bands of the same material as the dress, about an inch to an inch and a half wide, looping these, one across the other, just about the waist-line, so that the ends, weighted with a tassel or ornament, hang down as far as the hem of the skirt. Jt 3'ou want to vary the idea, change these bands for silk or metallic cores, and weight the ends with long fringed tassels._ The other device is to wear a pair of funnel-shaped cuffs, edged with a narrow band of the same iur or embroidery as that which trims