FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK

NEW MODES AND NOVELTIES. (Specially Written for the ‘‘ Chronicle”) (By Yvonne Rodier) The season is bringing us a profu* ion of plain and printed, fabrics in very textile guise. Up to the pres* nt, checks appear to be more popular han stripes, and are smartly illusrated in silks and in silk-awl-mohair lixtures. Nevertheless, there are some liarmingly novel effects in striped furies of the “ombre” or shadjowed ersuasion. Dark and light blues are eautifuily interw r ovcn into an ombre ackground of grey and “mist” blue; cige and brown stripes are blended ito a blurred surface to impart a eige-brown ombre effect while bas-et-weaving is piquantly suggested by Dine of the wool-an/l-silk fabrics herein the stripes -have raised surTrue to Parisian tradition, frocks nd suits of the “useful” order enst the more sombre colours. A great eal of black is still worn, though of-c-n mixed with brown, which sounds till to the point of dowdincss. But visit to Paris would soon dispel that fusion! Up a very different sartorial street re the thrillingly gay alliances in reeV-nd-white crepes and silks which arc catured in some of the big exhibits, "hese are worn under the übiquitous lain black cloth coat. Tiny patterns in sprigged washing ilks are the last-word innovation mong the models “pour le sport,” nd the coat complement is a plain ut smart affair in light tweed, allost invariably beige. The one outLanding alternative would seem to be rey kasha. The powers-that-be still insist, that rinted ami dotted or spotted niateri1s will have a more and more proounced vogue as the season professes. Aleanwhilc, advance gestures i this direction are calmed down, so o speak, by the coats or capes of cutral-hued fabric aforesaid. Afternoon frocks, while relegating le sport” increasingly to its proper rovince, are nevertheless inspired hereby. Very typically in the case f one famous “collection’' display)g a “pavilions” gown. “Pavilions” re the tiny flags of almost every nalou —x?ach of them no bigger than bout half the size of a postage stamp. The “robe de style” goes on its •iumphant way, complete with Louis A’T. bouffant skirt, flounces and jchos, with inccrtions of net, the lastamcid imparting an exquisitely airy nd ultra-feminine touch. The tight, hi in little bodices now have shoulderipes of net. fastened with taffetas owers on suite with the fabric of the own. For taffetas, lot it be duly rearded. is the chosen fabric for all the iveliest of such creations. A curias tone of shaded dahlia red vics with ink in colour-popularity. Among the millinery models, a tew ats with brims are struggling for u lace in the sun. They are cut wirlc t the side but short at the back, in coping with the new eoiifuro-contour. Hair shingled at the back but with inger side-pieces, now being allowed o grow so that they may he twisted nto “earphones”). Tught and novel mbroidered effects characterise some dvance examples.