PATOU’S FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18158, 24 October 1930, Page 5

PATOU’S FASHIONS.

SOME NEW IDEAS. » For tennis, yachting and golif there are clothes which, true to practical needs, yet show diversity in. colours and materials. Pleated tennis skirts have short yokes of pointed pleats; a blquse has supple fin-shaped excrescences on the hips; its, buttons are serried into an edging; handbags are flat, large, and decorated to match cardigans. There are tailored dresses to be worn with fur stoles or little capes with muffs. The capes are full about the shoulders and cut to a deep point; the muffs are also bags. A cape can serve several purposes, by covering the back, shoulders, and chest, or by being dipped over one arm so as to leave the other bare, or by being worn low down the back and leaving the chest uncovered. For the late afternoon Patou has made velvet and lame dresses without sleeves, and -to go over them are dark or black fur-trimmed coats. He makes a skirt like a coat and puls over it a long lame or crepe bilitis tunic which falls to within a few inches of the edge of the skirt. He also makes ensembles of black silk velvet trimmed with ermine, of brown red velvet trimmed with sable, and of his new green, which is also sabletrimmed.

Formal late afternoon ensemble admits of being worn at dinner. Many skirts dip behind and rise a little in front, after the Directoire fashion. Dance dresses of bilitis, satin or chiffon, all short enough to dance in, have slender skirts with fugitive flounces winding and folding over each other in spiral formation, or the dress may be double-skirted and draped to fall full in front and behind in broken lines. There are fishtail draperies, peplums, and short pleated aprons set behind and in front.. The bloused line of the bodice behind is maintained, but does not look quite the same. Formal evening dresses are long and have slender, simple, sculptural lines and slender trains. Patou’s hats are neither small nor large. They are draped about the head to.form a frame, disclosing or shading, a profile, the shape of the head being suggested in the crown, r Phese hats are often trimmed with fur to match a coat, cape or stole.