PARIS FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17008, 22 January 1927, Page 13 (Supplement)

PARIS FASHIONS.

AT THE THEATRES. RICH DRESSES AND GAPES. (Prom a Correspondent.) It is clear that the new fashions will not change much in line. Colour and texture arc the two important things. Every season the Rue dc la Paix grows more fastidious, and cloth and silk makers produce the most exquisite materials. In M. Charles Mere’s new play, “Le Lit Nuptial.” Mme. Simone appears in a salmon pink crepe de chine pleated skirt and plain jumper. The skirt is short, the jumper has Tong sleeves and a high neck, with the front embroidered from the hem to the edge of the collar. Over it she wears a long brown tweed coat with a soft, draped felt hat to match. Her evening dress is of fuchsia coloured crepe salin to which is joined purple chiffon. The dress looks like a fuchsia, so delicately are the colours blended and so gracefully are the materials draped . There is no embroidery or trimming. Over it is a purple salin cape trimmed with chinchilla. A surrlmer afternoon dress is of ye.llow chifTon stamped with a pattern in different shades of brown. Among the audience magnificent fur capes are worn over the. richest dresses. An ermine cape will be lined with black panne, and have a large roll collar of fur. At first, perhaps, such a cape is worn with the black panne outside, but later it is turned inside out with great effect. A grey squirre.l cape, is hung - with little tails'of a darker grey. Gold and silver tissue capes and cloaks are trimmed with fur and lined with velvet. Into some of them coloured flowers have been woven: red roses into gold tissue, piuk and blue into silver.

There are many shaded dresses, the bodices are pale, but gradually growing deeper until at the hem they are dark. A white georgette is embroidered all over in shades of green beads, both pale and dark; with it is a green ermine cape lined with green brocade. A red panne velvet dress has ruby beads worked over it, a black georgette glitters with' diamonds and the bodice is slashed into deep points applied to a rose-pink foundation. Two sisters may be dressed alike in white georgette with silver fringe put on in diagonal lines from the hem to the shoulders. Their capes are of ermine. Short hair is usual; it is cut and waved to give a good line lo the head and shoulders. There arc no wayward curls in the fashionable coiffure. Every hair is trained to do its duty and keep its place. When the hair is worn uncurled, the head looks as sleek and glossy as the plumage of a bird. It is drawn straight back from the forehead to be turned back over the ears so that it forms in a smooth coil on the cheeks. Complexions are made up with equal skill.