Fashion News From Parisian Designers

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20833, 17 June 1939, Page 18 (Supplement)

Fashion News From Parisian Designers

skirls in the same shade. The jumpers have little frilly fronts and smart belts, this type of front is made of tine lueke.j muslin, lace, pique, with crystal buttons, or it may take-lhe form of a plastron lik P a man's soft dre-s shirt. in which ease studs are used. Flat plastrons with small upstand-

The. “ front ” of pique, muslin, linen, or lace has been revived at Paris. It may be worn with almost everything except a tweed frock, and even with that sometimes it takes the form of a severe white how. something like a man’s dress tie but a little larger, worn at the neck with a smaller how on either wrist. Smart little white pique waistcoats with narrow upstanding collars are worn with cardigans and if the knitted jumper is open at the neck the gap is tilled by a white muslin “ dicky ’’ which has a small snug turned-down collar, fastened with a narrow velvet bow the same colour as the jumper. Cashmere jumpers of all kinds are transformed into afternoon frocks by the addition of close-filling velvet

ing collars of the military type, fast- ; ening at the back, look very attractive I with the tailor-made house suit, an J unlined coat anil skirt of soft wool . material or velvet. The fronts may ! be of linen decorated with drawn thread work, narrow lace insertion * and organdi, or pique on which coloured spots are embroidered. Women who have not time to embroider the spots use spotted muslin. With the white pique front a white pique belt is worn, if the waist is slender, otherwise the belt matches ! the suit, and is about an inch to an j inch and a-haif wide. Soft leather belts are also in order. " Ham frills ” have appeared again at the throat, but not at the wrists, and hardly any ol* the dresses arc worn open at the neck. Tlie so-called ” dressmaker’s neck- ! lace,” made of braid or cord, is worn with the tweed frock. There is ; something Egyptian about it, and many people are making their own. Three strands of different lengths of gold cord, for instance, are held to- ; gether at the back and on the should- i ers with strips of coloured ribbon sewn under the cord, which hangs loose in front. Bone rings may lie used at intervals instead of the "ribbun. A severe black dross can be finished with several strands of silver cords of different lengths attached to a fairly wide purple ribbon which ties at the back of the neck and stands out stiffly. Curd necklaces finished with bows of ribbon, made to match, or in contrast with the tweed dresses are quite new and very becoming. They are useful, too, for furbishing up a j dross a little the worse for wear. The bow should be attached with a little safety pin In the lurk of the dress. ollierwi.se it tends to slip down and i spoil the effect. When the hair is dressed high the I .-•nd* of the bows arc pulled strai-ht. i up to follow the line, when it is dros- 1 : ed bwv. the how G stretched out like ! a. butterfly with spread wingL # i