HALO HEADDRESSES

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19675, 7 September 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

HALO HEADDRESSES

[ MANNEQINS LOOK LIKE SAINTS. ! i PARIS FASHION PARADES. (By Air (Mail.) (From a Correspondent.) PARIS, Aug. 10. (Mannequins dressed exactly like stained-glass saints or pictures ol' saints by old Italian master/ were a I sensation at both Lanvin’s and Bruy- ’ ore’s openings. The materials used for these flowing negligees and dresses are rich velvets, crepes, brocades and shot taffetas. To complete the picture are halo headdresses of gold or silver. There arc also many lovely evening dresses 'in Grecian design. Paris is making a most determined effort to introduce the trouser vogue. Nearly all the designs show trouser skirts or sports wear, and Bruyere lias, as well, a neat golf suit with three-quarter length 'trousers which have no pretence of being related to a skirt. Calf-Length Frocks. Bruyere also shows a number of charming calf-length satin afternoon frocks, very slirnly cut and opening up the front to show thousers of the same material just a fraction of an inch shorter 'than the skirt. Me has a very lovely jeune fllle evening Frock of black <toille e|mbroidered in cire thread, the. skirt of which is made very full and shows through it long black .satin trousers instead of the usual satin slip. Worth’s version of the evening dress trousers is seen in a black satin frock with circular accordion pleated skirt opening to within 12 inches or so of the waist, so that black satin shorts show in walking. Lanvin contents herself with long Turkish trousers gathered at the ankle, worn with lovely brocade and metallised crepe three-quarter length tunics with swathed waist belts. Hats Are High. Hats for the most part are high, many of them having pointed crowns. Lahvin shows some regular dunce hats, or perhaps Plantagenet hats is a more d 'gnifled name for them, with coloured ..squares, of silk, hanging out of the point by' one corner. Lanvin also. has hats with pagodashaped orowns.