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PARIS, April 2nd,
Seeing that France is being accused by the world in general of having militarist ideals, it should not surprise some of these accusors that her greatest designers are out in vivid
Launching fashions cairi. One of the
scarlet cloth and gold
chiet culprits in this matter is the great Poirot, among the most fashionable morleis in his Spring collection being coats and skirts showing a little bolero est in bright scarlet trimined with gold braid and worn Iwith in red one.
white and rei checked skirt or else
Doucillet, also has made a feature of scarlet in his collection, but his is of the pillar bos shade, rather than the, brazen scarlet that inevitably makes one think of uniforms and brass bands. He is making short circular-capes scarlet slut and combining the with a whit erge dress.
He has a short loose sack-coats em broidered with white, these being work over straight, plestest dress
thick
white crepe de Chine. One of the successes of the collection is a bright scarlet costumie trimmed Berely with one large pocket-of shining guid
braftl. metal
Where designers have not dared to in troduce red openly they have compromised by adding one of the film handkerchiefs I have so often refered to lately, either a finish round the shoulders or the hips. The. handkerchief, in
pattern wherein is chown with a
red predominates.
is not seen to any great extent in the millinery sortion fashion, although most of the males are being trinal with fairly gay colours in ribbons
and dowers. For evening
red strich and there
many
to
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mor
be seen adding a note of colour to a dress in black or white or one in a neutral shade. Apart from these occasional outbusts into scarlet, designers appear content to express themselves in
sullued shades- mostly browne and all the long range in this colour from tete du negre to "the palest of tortoiseshells. Apart from these shales, about the only
Etting for women of fashion taste to wear is almond green. This, with gold or a touch of blur, makes
and
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dresses. restful-looking creations in almond green in every silk or button erepe known to the weaver, as well as equally delightful creations in cream relieved with touches or trimming of almond green. Hats thero are, too, in any quantity in this particular. shade st
of greencin fact, every second lint one sees is in almond green, or else, if it is in some other
her colour, it is soothered, as likely mr in almond green ribbon or other form of tri
trinneng.
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Other shades of green seen are jule and emerald, those being made up, as a rule, into anart sports clothes, and a deep
Nade of bottle green, which shade is reserved for tailored and walking quits, three-piece costumes, and counts and wraps of every kine.
At times there is so much of this particular colour about that ouek pygs become tired of seeing it, and one of the
st posing pastimes at any fashionable function is to try to count up the number of women who come into the xn wearing a green dress.
So fickle is Dame Fashion that whereas a season og two apo uo Truman could consider, herself well-dressed unless he possessed a majority of black dresses, hats and wraps in her wardrobe and wore them in pretence to the remainder, this year she had have none whatever, in her collection of clothes, and, for all that, he able to consider herself quite well dressed and up-to-date.. There are few light walking coats in black gabardine uni crepe Marocain de laine to be seen. but, instead of Leing able to walk into any shop and chose from an array of black models offered, it is now necessary to have 1L gown or cont made specially to order if one wants it in black. Even manufacturers to have forgotten that such a colour seem exists, because there is also a noticeable scarcity of lengths of blank material to be seen on the shelves of all the big shops.
In spite of the scarlet tuaches I have re- ferred to, there 13 very little evidence of other colour in a flamboyant note, and, any all, there is
is very little flame colour
to be seen-prielically rone, when one ris- members the wholesale display of this particular shade at
this time
last year. Old ruse, or bois le rose" as it is now called, is a delightful slute which is being
Int It well when soun
doep ahade
inaterials. Orange and yellow and similar shades
arc int very march to the fore, and these is little or
no. Davy blue to be seen, except when & designer has been obliged to us it as a foil tone down some vivid colour. · Royal bine there is in plenty, as well as one could best describe as sapphire blue, but only occasionally is this used. For the moment, brown, in as many shades na the dyer can work in between tête de negre and deep crtam, and green, in practically every shade from deep battle to lettuce groen, completely rule the day. Of them all, however, almond grown is the most popular, and to gach An extent that ir looks actually as though it will, huve outlived its sensational welcome long before has done more than make us lie first
thon is limited in the matter of
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colours for plain materials, she is more than eclectic when it is a question of embroider ed ones, for in these she manages to com- bine all the colours of the rainbow and intexluce.fowars and designs brilliantly vivir that they teanind one of the worst shockers ever seen at a
a futurist exhibition. Despite the fact that a short life was pre
by many for bala arxi bradding, in dicted general botli are more popular than ever. Not only are beads brought into play for the decoration of dresses and dress accessories, place in the
but they are erca, tacoration. home as eas of-
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Bend fringes are coming back into thair: worked in the most intricate and carious of own again ton, and are decorating lamp designs. Porcelain and ordinary glass beads shades and other, useful novelties about the of many. hues
are used, and the smallest size house. An off-shoot of this
renowed craze is chosen so that the effect of the in- for beads is to be noted in the number of broidery, when
will be that of quaint Venetian glass ornaments that rich tapestry:s the mutterns are decorate a room these days-glass floweri woven in a fine mesh instead of being and, fruit and quaint ornaments made in worked on, and the effect thus created is imitation of water lilies, fah and coral, to
as that of the bead mesh-place in flat Japanese bowls. which are always coveted by women Beading is being used a great deal, also, as love beautiful thing Clever effects. s means of trimming the diadem type of are also obtained by combining opaque headdress, and, mixed with imitation pearls, parcelain beads with the transparent glass beads can be fashioned into the most becom benula, used to such an extent by Venetian ing of ornaments for decorating either dress, head-workers, the design being carried out orhonddress. Bodembroidery long ago took in the opaque beads against a background its place alongside silk and woollon emi- worked in ruby, ememfi or opalescent glass broidery un dresses, since when designers, have discovered what a striking finish to a dress or cost a length of bead fringe can be,
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