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RAMBAY.]
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PARIS, June 20th. Everything will be shiny and glossy All that and brilliant this SOASON. glitters will be not be gold, it is true, bat instead it will be "cire." The most amazing materials and ribbons are to be seen, beside which the polished floors
cira of France are dull. The word is employed because this was the first idea creators of such things had in mind when they launched their first longth of shining ribbon on the fashion world, but lacquered" would be a far better word to describe this second edition- of their imagnation and efforts.
The idea is meatly confined to black, but lately there is a good deal of raven and navy blues to be seen, and also reds that ate quite startling in their novelty and brilliance. The black looks for all the world like a strip of asphalt, road on which the repairers have just poured a coating of hot tar; the black of it is intense and ripples and throws out fleeting shadows of light and shade. The red is like a piece of old Chinese lacquer" whose owner spends his days polishing its smooth surface.
The essential difference, however, between this new variety and the old is that chesp "eira" could be bought in quite quality and in texture was rather flimsy, whereas lacquered material or ribbon is inclined to be expensive and is very "As thick heary and rish in textura. as a board," the old expression women used to describe. the quality of a mate- rial would suit admirably this particular type.
Now that there is a rage for frocks that are a combination of two or more materials this lacquered material is used more and more allied to another more or less dull one. Serge, gabardine,
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tussore, crepe de Chine, organdie-all No. 2a, D'Aguilar Sirent, Telephone No. 2953. these make effective, if rather unusual, combination.. Taffetas, on account no doubt of its resembling in stiffness and shininess this new lacquered tissue, is rarely used with it. There will be a foundation of sheath-like
Jacquered material and a top part of one of the other materials just mentioned, or else
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the order will be reversed and there will | THURSDAYS:---- be a series of floating panels of, lacquer ed material over a foundation of some dull ore. A dress in some dull-faced tissue will be brightened by bands, revers, collars and cuffs or a wide belt with flowing ends of lacquered stuff.
As well as material of a heavy tex- ture there is also a new kind of talle "This is like the called sclophane." old-fashioned arpphane only it is lacquered to such an extent, that, it sparkles like the wings of a dragon-fly With this, hats are made or trimmed and dresses are ornamented. Not only are frocka trimmed with this diaphon- ous material but, if Madame's taste is inclined towards the fluffy and fly-away. she can choose a gown made entirely of celophane, toned down simply by a belt or a ribbon or two in heavy corded silk. Perisians started by draping their bats and allowing the Boating ends to bang over on one side, to blow into the face of their neighbours or else to en- twine, themselves round their necks; they have carried this mode to such extremes that one now sees yards of silks or ribben trailing from the brim of a hat, and there is not a little midinette in Paris who does not boast a hat whose sole trimming consists of a length of the same material it is made of trailing out from the side as she trots round the capital. This whim having reached and even overstepped its limit of po- pularity, Parisians are now trailing things from their frocks. Everything is A vision of panels, floating draperies, billowing founces and frills and lace or talle wisps. This idea and that of embroidering everything are what occupy the minds of designers and dressmakers for the moment.
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A phase of this prevailing fashion note is the skirt composed of a number of square pieces joined together. The STRAITS, idea to carry out when trying this experi- ment for yourself is to take four or any greater number of handkerchief squares, the length of side of which corresponds to the desired length of skirt, then join the top side of one to the top side of the other and gather the peaks, which will result, into the waist belt. The effect will be that of a cloud of billow-
ing material that will keep the slim silhouette of the wearer round the hips but afford a maximum of fullness round the knees. If even
a great effect of volume is desired, this can be obtained by taking smaller squares, and making a top and bottom row, one starting from the waist and the other from above the
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Walker, carrying His Majesty's Mails, THE Samship DUNERA," Captain will be despatched iruns this Fort on or about SATURDAY, the ruth, August, 1921, taking. Pgers and Cargo for the above Forts.
with and Valuables and Tea for Italy, France and Landon (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Bombay into the Mill Steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London.
Parcels will be received at this Ofos until 2
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Sleeves, too, are following the example, the day before sailing. The contents and set by hats and frocks, and when there are any are no longer but a complica tion of draperies and flowing ends.. Sleoves of lace or tulle will set off a frock of talletas-or-crepe de Chine; long, very wide sleeves fall to cover the wrist, not ajot of their fullness being caught into a cuft or band. One designer ro cently created for a well-known actress afrock in crepe Georgelle showing Sixteen there are quaint little pull original sleeves of the same materials; sleeves finished with a narrow frill. An- | about three yards length of this was other quaint notion, to be worn rather taken for each and it was hung acro by grown-ups, is the sleeve that in the arm, reaching from the shoulder to scooped out so as to show the tip of the the wrist it was then rucked slightly shoulder, the remainder forming a band and caught in on the under sido so as that is a continustion of the corsage, to mould the shape, the remainder of and the lower part of the sleeves form- the material hanging down in longing also a band encircling the arm. panels, Angels alcoves, bell sleeves, and Sleeves treated in this way must be very handkerchief sleeves are all to be seen short, and they must also be of the on the modern woman of fashion. There kimono variety and fairly tight-fitting. is also an inclination towards that be
matter of fact, very little else is coming type of slaves which fits in worn for the moment. tightly to the arm-and ends in a peak There is also another edition of this, or a curve well over the hand. This, type of slaves which is a continuation however, it far from being general, and of a kimono-cas bodice, the oval of when sleeves are not in the one extreme i which is rounded out eo as to disclose of being loose and voluminous they are the whole of the shoulder tip, leaving the other of being nothing at all, or at the actual sleeve no more than a band most a negligible affair, a few inches encasing the arm about three inches be- long that just cups the elbow and no low. Evening and dinner frocks or more. For the party frocks of Miss negligen treated this way aro
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