WHAT PARIS WEARS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17169, 3 August 1927, Page 4

WHAT PARIS WEARS.

SCARVES STILL POPULAR. Scarves and tortoiseshell —the two haunt you in Paris (writes a French correspondent). Colours, ranging from deep brown to pale beige, are everywhere, except where jade is. Jade is a serious rival..

Scarves arc even more important. We shall never get away from scarves —a gallant mode, that gives every woman a definite distinction, a certain dignified grace. You have them to go with your evening dress. You have them on your hats, or your day frock. Even on your walking stick. A scarf adds colour and pattern to the severity of the tailored line, and is a vivid contrast to the sombre fabric of the suit. When the epidemic of the Deauville scarf died out, a new and dignified scarf made its appearance. It is a scarf worn in a very different manner from the handkerchief-scarf tied in a careless knot, almost anywhere, that one could tie a knot or wear a handkerchief. Even’ little hat, too, is accompanied with its scarf to-day.

While black, yellow, pale blue, while, lavender, chartreuse green, poach, periwinkle, and a certain amount of red is seen for the evening, the new afternoon gowns show a great deal of the new quenched beige, much blue in every tone from navy to madonna, and a fair amount of soft silver grey. Patterned materials arc in great variety, and one of the most charming is a rod and white spotted foulard, which lias the new kerchief fixed on at the hack of the neck in its own material and loosely knotted iu front. A number of these kerchiefs were shown in London recently, and they looked very similar to those which had a vogue some years ago, when everyone wore them with sports suits; now, however, the fashion seems to he for using them on more formal gowns. The new ensemble shows a little drastic change. A long black coat seems a favourite finish to many of the smarter ensembles where a coloured silk frock is worn, and there are a number of three-quarter coats worn with blouse tops and skirts.

Among the sports clothes the sports three-piece was seen in the care with which jumper suits were matched up with either sleeveless coats or doublebreasted cardigans that suiled their colour scheme. A new idea is that of having with your chiffon or georgette dress, a little handkerchief of the same material to go with it. Just get your dressmaker to leave you scrap over tor a handkerchief of this kind. It must not be too small, and it must not be too big. But it must have a wide hem to it. It goes very nicely tucked into the pocket of your tailljaur suit, or a bright wisp of chiffon carried in your hand while dancing anu usually in a contrasting colour to your frock — looks smart. The Parisicnne is particularly addicted to these little chiffon or georgette handkerchiefs. They cost next to nothing, tool All the Parisian shoc i shops are showing numbers of black shoes in patent leather, dull black kid, black satin and dull corded silk. Gloves with the most elaborately embroidered gauntlet cuffs have wonderful black roses and grey leaves on them. Then there arc bags. With a black hat a woman will carry a black hag with the merest indication of a decoration on one corner.

This may bo two or three circles of black kid or a line of white and grey inlet, or a monogram, quite a tiny one, elaborately traced. In the evening nearly all the smart women are wearing white trimmed with crystal in delicate traceries, not in massed formation.

Some black frocks are to be seen. Most of them very, very simple in line, slightly fitting, in at the hack.