FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 20 (Supplement)

FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK

COMING CREATIONS AND NOVELTIES. (By Yvonne Ro’dler) According to all the prophets, the picture gown is assured of a long life. In its new guise, innocent of steels and crinolines, and adapted to suit the requirements of the moderns, it yet retains its old-world charm. Wonderful gold-cdged laces, tulle, satin, taffetas, lune, and some quaint Dolly .Varden flowered silks, all lend character to the picture frocks of the early collections.

.Evidng dresses for smart function* are elaborately embroidered with pearls Mid diamonds. And the fact that the jewelled head-dress is “in” again suggests a .heightened magnificence in the trend.

Those significant alterations in neckopenings and slceves-manipulation. which so largely lorecast thc early fashions, are already apparent in the modes of the South. Taking these as a criterion, the “V” neck, and thc long, slightly bishop-shaped sleeves, finished with piquantly dainty wristbands, arc to be modish on the simple, blouse-like corsages.

In many cases, the fashionable jumper in a pale colour shows n rounded or bateau nock finished with a border and tie in a darker shade. Woven junipers have shaped wristbands with lines of contrasting colours. In the more decorative category.

Mouses of tissue and lame look especially well when bordered, as arc some of thc most attractive models, with black velvet ribbon. This always makes a becoming finish to neck and wrists

Incidentally, blouses and skirts of a more elaborate character are to piny

an important part in the new sea son *s sartorial renaissance.

Jumper suits, some of the very newest in the loveliest shades of pale green, cyclamen, pastel-blue and pink, and a shimmering silvery grey, are now invariably shown wuth the correct and matching hat to complete the theme. AII thc foremost dress houses select colours and fabrics with expert skill, and the latter are woven to special design exclusive of individual establishments. Pleasant little floral forecasts for millinery intimate a revival of the trimmed hat. The modiste is particularly preoccupied with the possibilities of primulas, hyacinths, tight little rosebuds, and hrijliant-hucrt nasturtiums.

Some of the most intriguing of the new evening wraps owe their charm to a long, jcarf-like collar. This is attached loosely on the shoulders with a few stitcl.es, being otherwise left, free, and creating an impression of monk’s hood with wing-like ends. Though sometimes made from thc same material us the cloak itself, the new collar is more often seen in a contrasting fabric and colour. Thus a wrap of powder-bluw velvet is adorned with n monk’s-hood collar of silver tissue; while siiVer brocade gains chic from its collar of palest rose velvet in an embossed pattern. Epaulettes are taking lhe place of buttonholes. A highly decorative affair of lil.bon, embroidered with brilliantly coloured jewels, is the newest evolution cf the übiquitous shoulderflower vogue. Only one epaulette is worn—and on the left shoulder. It is an aftori'< or and evening fashion, of course; and is never worn when a ordinary posy is used. Violets are thc modish morning buttonhole. Quaint-shaped pockets are. a decorative feature of some of the latest frocks. Thc hexagonal shape, finished with a long silk tassel dangling from the lowest point of thc pocket, is thc most favoured.