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PARIS FASHION NOTES.
[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, ISADEL KAMSAY.]
PARIS, July 3rd. It would not be surprising if the papers during the next few weeks record the sui- cide of half the dresŝinakers and millicers of Paris, as well as that of the host of
people who spend their life
life creating the exquisita dress nccessories which go so far to complete the elegant emite of a Parisaune. If this happens then the Clerk of the Weather will be to blame for sending cold, rainy weather at a time of the year when the shining his brightest. Contrary weather for the grand Steeple chase and the Drags Day at Auteuil was. laud enough, but cold, rainy Weather for the Grand Prix was almost too much to bear. Even the win of H
500
should be
the English people prefourite and (for
another triumph
for their idol. Steve Donoghue, was scant rumpens for such a disaster.
spite of the weather, however, mont
of the women present made a brave showing, und thus nevented this year's Grand Priz fashion parade.from being a complete fisse, "is could only be con-
very sidered as a compromise. The parading mannequins from the big bouses, which is always one of the attractions of a Paris musecours, was rubbed of "must of its in- terest because it was not all designers who had e cured to send forth these harbingers of
Spring armyeri in feag which
threatening
welove to
state of hopeless rain. No doubt, too, there
been a vidt on the
¡ part of the man-
to don gol-web kind of vineariosny jeza a day when the Lemparature was as sinry ns on any grey day de Winter.. The who. did appear in diaphonous creations spent their time shivering and endeavouring to cover up the blue tip
of their mis with frequent applications of powder.
un-
colours "prelominating werd witty, al mative, with the usual pe deranen of black. Black and white in varicil forms was also a popular note, Whip rinky short couts were trimmed with black muni key fur, many showing a double yow of both black and white monkey für mixed; black cents were trimmed with hands of ermine or white rabbit, black hats were trimmast with white flowers. white strich plumes r white cock's feathers and some of the most effective dresses worn wert fashions of a figured crepe de Chine showing either black design on a white background De nice gerar. "Pleatel white skirts worn with a hose, shirt cont in eloky, fur or Paisley were legion... There is a new cloky which has been seen very frequently during the past maple of weeks at the big rach metine is now become as familiar as it is far more tiny than the type which has
crepe
de Ching itself, and, in fact, ut a Edistance, it has the same glossy look about it as the polishel ciré ribbons which were so last your This cloke
IN not
banchel on to a thin cotton foundation by a
network of stitchings, but is unline and is "therefore, inuch lighter in texture, and looks, in spite of its start, effect; ar though the wearer had slept or it during a succession of nights," an impression which accounts for tamine sometimes given it of froisse (rushed satin). This new varia tion of an already familiar material is certainly sure original than purely beauti
up into pinin capes, short
gats d
at frocks, it plays its part wall in the part of fashion, if it daca neonora than act as a fuil to the dull crepe le Chine and Marocain that intinue to flourish an all sidew
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In spite of grey skies, land was present
L great abundance as ever, way not only present in the form of dresses and capes such as we lave seen for tuiny mions now, but a new go had been found
and scores of optim for it by ists also
with them he sols, which, nelless to say, Bever opened. Still, it could be seen that this particular dress accessory was in frugile Chantily of silk face over foundation of some colourd silk. The len the milliners haul wils to take a Bigsinvl black or white Iner mantilla and throw it over a wire shaw with an ordinary head-shaped crown and, a wide, drooping bring; the lace was, gathered into the sluje of the crown mud në Certain amount left in front and on the sides, so that the lage just drooped over the ele of the bring a couple of in- ches
s the
untilla Exilaining bulk of the
from the lack
brina so as to form a long lace rape offret. Some of the wearers of these man tilla- hnts, when the wind blew inore sharply than before, evented for themselves a sensation of warmt
by drawing the two sides of the mantilla round from the cle and ddling themselves into it as though it had beeren plaid shaw).
ps
Another original innvoution in the millinery world WAN thnt of taking alert cock's feathers and sticking them to the hat by the (thus complypely reversing the old order of things) adding
a finish to the ends with La inub of white sealing wax. Feathers treat ed in this way were taver more than thre inches long and they were laid on in a pluck layer round the crown of the hat so that at first sight it look as though Madame. hud it into her head to decorate her Grand Prix hat with a particularly angry and ruffed porcupine
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It is evident, from the toilettes of several of the mannequins present, that designers are doing their utmost to bring in a vogue for long skirts. There were any amount of frocks in soft material that, reached below the ankim" of the
and one mannequin wearer,
paraded in a grey crepe de Chine frock that actually trailed along
the
after her as she ground walked. It is for the discerning in
such matters to decide whether such:
ap are to be taken as gevin dications of a fashion trend, or simplyak efforts the part of designers in estate adanand for a fashion they are obviously1317)
un
&
won anxious to suplak trorka,
were very
about
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women had persisted in coming out in frocks grey as thu colour for hilo choso
which were Ay
the only one being an 1830 ration Maroccain dress, she wore a cape in the same material finished with a deep silk filet showing an enormous skirt bellooping fringe in the same shade; her hat of pala out in a a series of flounces, for all the grey crinoline straw trimmed with a world as though there were a crinoline wreath of pale and dark grey steek, sewn underneath. What was most noticeable, on closely together and forming a diadem though, was that,
in spite of the bitter wind, in front President Millerand
and added which be wears cut us say evening gown! This tendency, on
m all official 'occasions, whether his suit, which I remarked in my letter of Inst week be grug or otherwise. In the Presidential describing the dressing at the Grand Stoeple stand with them were the Emperor of Prince, perhaps the degree at the Grand Prix; certainly, the
interested spectators of All the thou [amount of shoulder and arm displayed hy some worden was sufficicient to cause the and present, at Longchamp that day. In least puritanical to gasp and ask himself gold and jewelled embroideries, the Royal
native dress,
with brilliant covered where it is going to cad.
visitors formed a picturesque sight,
chase Wils developed to a superhitive Annar
had
the
young
Madame Millerand, as usual, was drcased President and Madame Millcrand-carrying with elegance and taste, but with the atmost the part of hosts to a fine point acted as
The Haig & Heig
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