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PARIS FASHION NOTES.
{FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, ISABEL BAMSAY.]
Pants, November 19th. Faris is wide awake after the sleepy sammer season, and everyone is very much in town-some because they are in- tending to pass the witte bare, others to prepare for a sortie to Chamounix or to the Anire coast. The Paris season up to the present has confined itself to the fashionable meetings at the rares and the dress-rehearsals of certain theatrical offerings. The presentation of M. Heart Bernstein's success "La Galerie des Glaces was the signal for a large and very smart gathering; in fact, every- body who counts at all in Paris was there.
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A number of small dinners and lan cheons have been given lately and the Ritz Sunday evening dinners have bee gun show extremely distinguished It is at the Ritz even more parties. than at the repetitions générates that one grasps the uniformity at which our fashions can arrive. As duncing is one of the features of the Ritz dining room, the short and the split skirts are to be seen in profusion, but, granting the practi- of this, there is a great semenéss cality
They are in most of the gowns worn. slender supple affairs of crepe or velvet leaving the arms quite bare and hurdly the collar bone, so high is their
They are beaded or em-1 broidered with brilliants, or etched with the new diamond painting," which is one of the novelties this year. They are slender as to skirt, and often have "no drooping tunic but simply sheathe a willowy form. If the form is net per feetly willowy then there is reason for a tunic.
The wraps also show a great deal of full-length aniformity, being narrow, enpes of velvet or ermine (often of both). with little, ruffled or rolled collars that stand up about the neck.
The gorgeous ink and sable coats are beginning to make their appearance at these dinners, but they still seem a little beavy and enveloping and the light. narros capes that are easily dropped on. the back of a chair and easily drawn up about the shoulders fire somehow smarter for the moment.
Of course everyone is out in the new winter wits and three-pieces costumes, and, haring these to go on with, every one is busy arranging the mid-season wardrobe which will do day through the Riviera season or Christmas in Paris, for the Parisian couturiers absolutely. themselves with cus- refuse to the month of January 16 tomers during
customers can't be reasonable enough to take themselves off to Cannes or Nice and the
where most of the Puutarices have branch houses, and leave Paris to the rain and the midlenettes they will not be encouraged in their folly by the couturiers. However, the present season sees the collections for the winter! season. Poiret, Worth, Vornet-all the great houses, in fact-are showing their hew WDS.
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Poiret has devoted himself to relining the and perfecting the Anamite und Directoire lines which he launched ear lier in the season. High necks and long sleeves in the day-time gowns, with subtle circular flare toward the knees characterize the better part of these costunies. Poiret further endows them. with subtly curved lines which follow. without clinging to, the figure. The evening gowns become more daring, often sheathing the torso in closely waaril or tightly fitted bodices which, without break of a waistline, enlarge into a de- lightfully draped skirt portion, A train sometimes appears in the evening gowns, and, though Poiret is one of the fow eturis to appreciate the value of this device, it contirnes the ne plus ultra of chic for the women who, defying the speed of modernity, keep the leisurely "to this decorative grace necessary
and at the same time drapery. Simple luxurious are Poiret's Greek Directoire gowns, which are finely pleated from Deck to hemt. Of fine velvet or of silver tisse, they represent a gorgeous bat classic interpretation of the tendencies of the mode I have always believed Poiret to be "one of the greatest artists
satin or silver cloth is hung with flmy devoting his activities to modern cos tumes, and, though the present tendency layers of chiffon austerely straight in as away from the voluminous and the gor-line and without one touch of trinag geous geure in which he is simply beyord Worth's evening gowns are delightful. Patou's collection 1 also one of the any other creator, he keeps abreast of the times and manages to give to the important ones in Paris. She dresses clinging genre of today's styles that at Patou's" has become the smart phrase touch of exotic magie which has always to indicate that the lady in question
as up-to-date as possible, for Patou has. made been Poiret.
chic, Worth's collection is particularly brilli- in his short career as a
himself ant this season. The long tradition
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of the house. which is the oldest unosteatatious luxury, which be expresses in Paris, and the actual appeal of a merveille in women's clothes. its creations have always given it a great the English tradition which makes for authority in the fashion world, but it the wear of loose, comfortable clothes that seems to me that there is a real genius do not overstress the fact that the
wearer
is a woman, but make the most of in the creations of Worth this senso They
extremely individual and as a lady-and a graceful human introduction of tweed suite His licing
mondaine levels. The short skirts, extremely launched earlier
earlier in the season. Con : the wardrobe of the Paris
has been nothing short of a revolution in tinue to characterize many of the creations of the house, and have led to good dressing in Paris. The easy swing new formula, in the fashion world. of his circular skirts is absolutely in showing a skirt length which is less than imitable, and his promulgation of the man enseigte costume, in which, gown, cont the length of the bodice. Every woman
and lining are planned to be one and what & dangerous thing this pro- gis, and yet Worth makes it a inseparable, has been another innoarsion.
His frocks for
It is difficult to describe the Eaton a suggestion creations they are so simple in principle largely on their finely and their character rests
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of speed and activity
of infinite one belts, and the very subtle fitting which he gives
pleated skirts, their their clear, soft culoarings.
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to the bodices, the hang of his circular tunics, and the long unbroken line of his coats.
The triple belt is a feature which Warth is using with great effect in spite
His colour combinations are equally of the beltless" trend of the season: Les extrémes se touchent, and three subtle and unusual, for the greater part Barrow belts, the same colour as the of his textiles are especially designed for frock, Are more lize na belt than i
him and cannot be matched in Paris. are creations that stand alone, ro
angle belt is, and, being much less trying The ting, in a sense, the movement of
to certain figures, it has found an imme diate success. Worth's evening gowns the styles, but too smart to be compar are brilliantly simple. Long straight able to anything else. He is one of the sheaths with a mera touch of drapery at great colourists, and a continually, in- one hip make the most of a woman's creasing refinement of taste leads him to grace, and give the keynote to many of create Larmonies so delicate that they t.taken in at first glance, when his evening gowns. Whether the gown are not.t is of black velvet with scarlet beads. they impress one as a fine, quiet combin- forming a large motif ever the drapery ation, though further examination reveals At the hip, or whether the sheath of pale such daring combinations as sky-blue with biege, or reduced scarlet with apple- (Continued on nest Column).
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