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PARIS FASHION NOTES.
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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
19ABEL RAMNAY..],
AMAZING SWEATERS.
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The winter sports in Switzerland have been responsible for the launching of the most amazing sweaters and sports Pants, January 26th.
coats that have yet been created. "These show # neutral or natural wool colour The materials which fashion has pe background, but into this is woven pati pularised most this season are taffetas, terns at such varied and vivid colours Ottoman silk and kusha. with tweeds, that the finished article is more like a cheviots and marckellains, the nut being harlequin's coat than a garment
for one of Rodier's latest triumphs in wool modern woman of fashion.
The harl a dark len fabrics. It usually shows a or neutral ground flecked with bits of quin idea is further enhanced becaus bright colour. For smart effects that most of the patterns are carried out in square shapes. With Verge on the daring, thers is a marokel- a series of diamond and
which
caps to
and toned down match laine that shows a scarlet ground
by the dark coloured breeches that are is flecked with scraps of black, white and worn with them (no real Alpine sports
or widths of brown. Mixed with bands or plain material in either of these shades, or would dream of wearing a skirt) to tone it down, and with bright buttons they look the jolliest of affairs. wadd a finish, some delightful effects times, a white woolly cap, white muller and white woullen gloves are added in- are being obtained with what starts out by being a rather dangerous material te stead of caps in gay woels, to match the swenter or neutral coloured ones to match Tweed is the favourite material for tai. the breeches, and the effect of this is just lor-made costumes and also for light as good as the other. Bern in mers showroom, these morning conts to wear over simple frocks or less cold blood in a
harlequin sweaters are apt. to-terrify one grows cooler the tweed grows heavier in but seen against a background of glitter quality. Cheviot, too, is to be seen in snow and black, jagged branches,
they look most fascinating and great quantities, but more often in de Saite Browns and reddish tags than in though they belonged to the whole seese just as surely as the scarlet snow Blower
·does.
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Theo of Course, there is Since Bedier Arst launched this delight A new craze, on rather a new attempt to ful mterial, so many women have disintroduce an old craze has one there covered its rare qualities of softness, sprung up among coiffeurs. This is the As the shing- lightness and warmth that it has achiev wearing of coloured wigs.
Birinly in remain ed, favour almost as general as that te and bob persist
remova them at serge or erépe de Chine. What this ing, despite their efforts to ingenious weaver therefore is now doing they are now trying this little expedient 15 to take kasha lengths in the must to compel wamen to change their coiffeur bewitching, colours imaginable, so that, and spand the time and money they
The were wont to "on their bair.
Bew frora being essentially a material for wear in the country or for sports oc-form in which wigs are being launched of different styles and
casions, it has become one that fruresis in a anting and everything but
Sile floss, fax, metallic thread
in the wardrobe of every well-dressed made of woman for her smart afternoon frocks, hair coats and tailored suits. Three
the Parisian coiffeurs are exercising their costumes, showing a frock of one has the ass, these are some of the mediums talents on. And, as to colours, they of kasha and a short jacket of a deeper tale
and orange
shade or clae of a different one altoge range from violet, magen green and
worn nt
ther finished perhaps with parements of black are exceptionally smart. I noticed quite a number at a time at the Ritz the other day and what is the Ritz at this sacred hour you count on being the very smartest Paris has to offer for the commat. CHOOSE WITH CARE.
may
that
Taffet is to be seen a lot in the even ing and Ottoban, silk is still being made up into light coats, and Gnished with collar and cuffs af far, ermine white Fabbit" or "grrbe for preference as to strike the vivid contrast of black and white, for, naturally, Ottoman silk is only seen in its black form. Other henry types of ribbed silks are to be seen, also, but one must be careful to choose on in an exceptional quality as otherwise, they
down to the palest of silver,
Many of the big dressmakers are aiding and abetting the coiffeurs by designing dresses especially for wear with certain wigs. Poiret, a is always
i the case when it is a matter of some extraordinary originality, is one of the chirr offenders. Recently he organised a mannequin parade en purpose to show of the models he had designed for wear and difereat tex- with different coloured
An exquisite silver thread tured wigs. wig was worn with a sitter tissue gown and finished with ounces of silver lade great bows of black velvet. Other wigs, 15 colours, were worn to add the one note of colour to plain black or white White wigs, on the contrary, dresses.
act as 1 softening note were worn to is ensembles that might otherwise have bern too colourful-and so ou. Some of mass of
are api toirt is likely to prevail the wigs were as complete a
The shorter during this season and the coming one as well, but as a change from all the apron front effects fashion has insisted on us having for the past year or so, a the fulling is going to be swerved rous to the back.
VEILED AEM CREEPING 115.
Another note that is creeping in is the veiled arm. The sleeveless even- ing dress is still more worn than any other kind, but, the majority of women are realising that only those of their who have been blessed with arms tha:
cf the three possess
of should shape. texture and colour
ich a revealing ever venture to wear such a fashion and are mercifully adding long, wide sleeves of delicate lace that actua)-
sex
reveal just as much of the arm as though they were not there, yet cover up all the little imperfections of form and blemishes of skiu in the kindest manner
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curls and coils as acy that graced the Marie Antoinette's court: ladies of others, were, severely modern and were drawn back in tight unrelenting strands from the forehead and dressed with the 13 utmost economy: of line and material, So, there are wigs for every age and every type. Whether they will take on any more than they did last time the coiffeurs of Paris put their heads toge- ther and tried to launch wigs, yet re- mains to be seen.
aw charming infir dress that came from Martial et Armand's that illustrated this idea to perfection. The foundation was a nigon de soir in wide. stripes of black and white, over which was looped black Chantilly lar from the knees downwards; the only ornament was an embroidered motif worked out in barmonicus shades of crimson, pink, and black. Originally in Bended to be sceveless, the wearer. had added long flowing sleeves of black Chantilly lace finished at the wrist with tendrit of embroidery that repented the same colours as those of the motif at the waist. Sometimes these stoves, well as being long and wide have an extra width that hangs down from the outside of the arm just at the wrist or else following the sean from the elbow downwards. At others, they are cut so as to widen out slightly towards the wrist and are vaguely reminiscent of the sleeve of a priest'a surplice, If the lace one is using is rather wide, two widths joined together and shaped in this way can make up into a delightful sleeve and add a finish to any froek. GRACEFUL SPLIT SLEEVES.
Long, close-fitting sleeves is another. note of to-day's dressing. Some of these are so tight that sometimes they have to. be split up to the elbow so that they can be pulled on. They are most be coming, certainly, and never fail to
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Sy of rubbing themselves into What most women who stay their purse as with as their appearance, do tu couns ternet this drawhack, is to have two seta "of alertes made for one deres, that is if the material is a delicate one and the, sleeves are liable to wear out diapro- ‚portionately quicker than she rest of the,
drps.
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With close-fitting sleeves, there is un- other feature of the fashions, now prevail- ing, and that is the disappearance of the hateau neck line. Slowly but gradually this is giving place to a more definite round or square-cut
neck.
There are
some high collars "to be seen, especially 43 a a finish to the antin tailored blouses that are being worn underneath the more of the tailored suits, also a num- severe. ber of slashed fronts finished with; s straight collar, but the round and the square-cut neck-line and even the V. when it is not exaggerated, are roally, the inmportant features of afternoon dresses.
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