FORTHCOMING FASHIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 579, 8 October 1932, Page 20 (Supplement)

FORTHCOMING FASHIONS.

Colours Will Run Riot This Summer. PRINTED FABRICS POPULAR.

(By

A PARIS EXPERT.)

Everybody is in love with the fascinating new colours that summer has brought with it. They include a vivid new geranium shade which, while it is so becoming to the brunette, can equally well be worn by the blonde. Lipstick red is also a favourite colour, and there are bright shades of green and blue. The blues are so numerous that it is hard to choose among them, and each day another shade appears. White, the colour so suitable for young girls and so very appropriate to the new styles, makes its appearance with increasing frequency. With all these delightful colours at hand, one would expect to find the boulevards a riot of colour. And so it is, in a way, although the real Parisienne remains faithful to her faithful black and dark navy blue. The Choice of Your Morning Frocks. Try to be as informal as possible in the choice of your morning frocks, and have at least one informal afternoon dress. You have ample choice to be formal in the evening, when the long skirts, often ending in short trains, give so much dignity to their wearers. Don’t be afraid of these long skirts. If you are short and rather plump a long skirt will give added height to your figure. Although evening frocks tend to be very feminine at present, the Parisienne lias evidenced a great penchant for the evening tailleur, which is, as a matter of fact, very popular indeed. If a severe masculine style happens to suit your type, then so much the better, as such an ensemble is suitable for many sccasions.

Costume jewellery is still to the fore, and many models would look almost incomplete without it. Some of this jewellery is in heavy gilt and looks so enormous that one wonders whether it is not really tiring to wear. Still, the finished effect it gives to a toilette is unmistakable, and we must often suffer for the sake of fashion —“souffrir pour etre belle, e’est a dire!” Some of the New Materials. Sumo of the new materials, which are both dull and shiny, are used with the most pleasing effects. Many of them are either double-faced, one side shiny, the other dull, or else they feature a definite shiny pattern on a dull surface. Such a material was used for a wedding dress, the pattern of checks standing out vividly on the dull ground. Brilliant spots on a dull satin is yet another design used by many couturieres with splendid results.. Cotton, organdie and ninon, are among the favoured materials for simple summer frocks, and these materials are used for dainty blouses, which just now are being every bit as carefully worked and fancifully trimmed as those worn in our grandmothers’ time. For the evening the Paris dressmakers use any number of printed fabrics, but always in new and exclusive designs. Flowered chiffon is so lovely for hot summer evenings, and so delightfully girlish-looking. The Vogue of Beach Pyjamas. No fashion of late years has had such a triumph as the pyjama—that is to say, the beach pyjama. After all, it is not so long ago that its first appearance on the French coast created a furore which had its effect in Britain, and even in America. The slight bravado and the decided air of defying all the proprieties which its devotees affected, shocked intensely all those people who enjoyed being shocked by such things. But, like every other fashion, the nyjama craze developed considerably. 1 hese garments are far from being the simple affairs they were. One would gather that the object of wearing pyjamas would be to walk comfortably, and even to run. But to run in some of the full-skirted flapping trousers affected by some of the summer-seekers on the Deauville beach would mean an undignified tumble. No, those pyjamas ar<merely for display and for lounging. It the wearer of that garment desires to walk even, she has to pick up her • rousers! Then there is the second •ategory of pyjamas—-those in which one an walk and run—and, finally, the third, \ hiefi are suitable for both tlie exer■ises mentioned and arc decidedly at Ira c .live as woJLL.