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Paquin deftly combines French elegance and British practicality and wearability. Throughout a recupt collection of this Coa- ture House, the Oblique Line runs. The illustrations on the page is an impression of this new line, of beauty.
Left: "Envoyage" Paquin's great tri- angular ieversible coat grey on, one side, banana the other..
Right: "A Tour"""Paquin's three-quarter length coat expressing the Oblique Line in Amadou tweed,
By Bettina Temple
NE of the oldest and with sloping shoulders. A small in mink most famous of Paris pill-box hat worked
completes a very elegant out. Couture houses which could do duty from six PAQUIN-has gone back clock into the night. to its pre-war habit of adapting its Paris collections simplicity of line-bul worked to British lantes. That's in more spectacular materials, why we unw what Paquin such as
of Paris
the believes fashionable woman with London tastes should be wearing during our cum ing winter.
PAQUIN stresses, femininity Jor all occasion, with the accett Ou unturaf curves and a small
-but not unnaturally small waistline. The skirt length about fifteen laches. from the ground, which is comfortable to wear without looking really short.
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Natural, Feminine Elegance without fussiness is
nuterlats and a deerplive sim- plicity of line. The silhouette lightly padded Is light, with shoulders abi gently-rounded hipline. Jacirely on sulls
well tailored, and nor-
desesperrts are
row, almost tapering, with any fullness in the front an
Janel worked in Suit (please note: dark
grey) weight tweeds are cut on classical lines with clever un-
Sight
or
piste on obliquely-cut pockets set invisibly into the side seam at the walst. The one "dressier" kult shown was made in black barathen, ent on classical lines and trimmed with black velvet nn collar and pockets.
Cocktail frocks also showert
shimmering satins, In gold rich-looking brocades or silver, and shot taffetus in red and black. One satin was in a subtle and mild
Somo have low ming blus.
others high square decolletes, necks with n teep front slash. Skirts, here too, are fight but an appearance of fubies sometimes given by loosely piented, npraa-like front panels. In some cases basques are used to give the impression
of sults. Sleeves ore
ellher of the dolman variety or cul straight.
is
PARIS COMES TO LONDON There's A
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on
The from
maid
the
Day dresses worked in light fine wool or tweed in autumn shades-pale browns, yellows, 1st -are long and wil- could be lowy. One which worn from breakfast unill tea- time, which impressed me par. ticularly by its unmistakable Paris touch, in tailored In flee black wool. Large fat but- tens ran to the waist. (Note: rge at bullont were used throughout the collection GA Jacket fronts, Jucket pockets and akiris). Four rows of the same buttons hold two in
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From EVELYN IRONS
PARIS.
E shutters are coming Tdown all over Paris. sleeves,
Restaurants which have been closed for the summer huliday display reopening notices.
front und two back pleats
place
For Evening
For full evening designs were
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occasions,
Paquina
back
is mountains
For two months cameras will bo
and Insy in the streets quares of the city, along the quays, and on the Seine bridges; three-quarters of the film will be inade in the open air. The story American ex-military govern will be the life of Paris round
clock told through In Germany. Ted the tent officer Ruddock, at a le bar he has ernotions of the citizens picked tuken over neur the Are de from the crowds who throng the Triomphe.
streets every day.
the
Customers pay 10s. each for it. Men responsible for this tea idea Julion Duvivier, who Reelpe in one egg yolk, spoonful of sugar, shot each of made the famous Carnul de brandy, cointreau, orange juice Bal. and banana cream Iqueur (this
We who have to carry on will our work in servantless apart last can be omitted), cracked
at
Poster bar
B
The flags come out
an-
#ttle changed. One dress, intended as a first 'grand dress for a young girl, Goats shown are either close- fiting with b. car-hugging is made in wille tulle with collars muide In
full billowing skirt; the strap- beaver,
nt tess
bodice is delicately rm- enormous, swirling, triangular
sequins wrap-around
broidered with silver affairs stressing
bends. For and
the more which the oblique movement
PAQUIN tung through the whole of the rophisticated woman
with collection. One of these, which shows a black net dress
particularly admired, Is work an enormous and finely-pleated
cloture coloured posters sold for use in processions. enjoying their
showing and skirt, and a light fitting, strap-
botanical od in rover bje KTEY
annuelle are preparing to enter schools, short banana fine tweed. The sketch less bodice eating in
tult their clients again.
aprelmens Clients who are in- shown on this page gives пп
hasque is embroidered in black
The Nu Look
terested call at an art shop on jet beads and
appliqued impression of this line.
bank and buy The swallows have Bown the left
posters for 5. a time. south. The chestnut trees on the Champs Elysees wear their The summer is autumn brown. Dendy over.
vals are getting plcture post- Ice. cards of the Savoy mountains from our daily mald, saying:
Will be back in a few days."
Soon the laundry and the dry cleaners, shut since August 1, Hotel Bisson, on the Qual des
There were church. will be ready to receive long- Grands Augustins, on the Seine.
There contributions,
It was modernised by
speeches at young ceremonies, overdue are still only 24 thentres open, Parls architect named Pincurd, Hotel de Ville, dancing in the all night, torchlight but some of the 37 which have who has covered one wall with streets beca
They were putting out the for the sixth Decorative notion was seen niversary of the liberation of
another bar in the old Farle.
in
could either be worn open, black velvet. An emerald green a halter neck showing a panel in a contrast afin dress with
fallored ing colour, or closely wrapped has its front bodice
two around the wearer, for warmth. as a walstcoat-including
fall mall pockets; four.
panels Afternoon Ensembles
from the waist to give an effect For late afternoon PAQUIN of
fullness to an otherwise skirt. "Fishtail thows two excellent ensembles, sheathlike One, a block wool frock, is flounces" breaking at the knee
three- in worn with a straight
Ane pleats give the some quarter length coat in 100se effect of fullness to a woven Bristol red wool edged mauve chiffon dress. Here the with black Peulon lamb (the bodice, with its halter neck, is designer's impression of this also sequin embroidered in 11 shown in the one-sided sketch), slightly lighter colour.
Altogether, n The other, la ruby velvet, is a
In show niceveless frack with a deep V applauded, since it nicely com- decollete buck And front, jul- biries wearability with elegance, fing, pointed evers and a slight and the best of French designs drape effect over the lips. with excellent British la topped by a coolle-cut jacket materials.
DOUBLE
DUTY
sweet
Reversibles are the pole of the new season, and many of autumn's amariest costumes will turn about før double - fashion' duty. Those 'vosis follow the trend by being mado of black veret on one side and black-and-whlie check on the other. The peri coomory is a real wardrobe, stretcher.
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Starring Paris............ First shots are being made HOW of a film starring
Shops, bars and night clubs which packed up and migrated Parls herself. to the Riviera will shortly un lock their doors and display the gloriously suntanned charms of their returning staff.
This Parisian habit of shutting up shop for most of August is fiercely criticised as being bad for bustness in the height of
So it fo the tourist season. Buf Paris goes on doing it.
Tourists coming to Paris this month can hear German, Italian and Russian operas. They can see the Folies Bergere and the Nu Look at the Mayol. But they have to wait until
Sep- tember for the great French playwrights at the Comedie- Francaise. Because the Comedie- Francaise is elased for the holidays.
Mine's a gallon There 1: so much alcohol
France that soon petrol sold will have a dash of
it.
There will be two mixtures, the ordinary and the super. The ordinary, coloured bright orange, will have 15 percent alcohol and will cost about 45. 5d, a Kollon In Paris-one
franc less than the petrol sold now.
Effect of alcohol on cars their liquor consumption will go up.
the
But the feeling about all this
Sald not what it used to be. a former Resistance leader endly, as he mixed a dry martiril behind his bar. "We have been forgotten. They're thinking about the next one now."
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Now they're wearing LEATHER
by EILEEN ASCROFT
TEWEST of the winter fashion fabrica is leather. Points in its favour are durability, warmth and its shower-proof qualities. Against it: Its price.
A full-length belted top-coat of ultra-soft suede is one of the cosiest travel associates any woman could possess. Beryl Grey has chosen one in royal purple for Violetta Elvin is taking a her American ballet tour. Jerkin in brilliant coronation red to wear with blouses and skirts.
Whittle your
waint
down Biggest buyers of the boxy- jacket-straight-skirt suits are with one of the newest adjual-. Americans, Canadians and able waist-bind skirts.
Lon- American women have an Scandinaviar visitors to don. One thing they all like autumn craze for fake fur. They about these wear-forever out use it for trousers and casual is that they can choose hats, Jackets for evenings at home, In black to go begs, gloves and bells oll dyed as waistcoata exactly to match.
with town sults, and, nicest
and icy will find it more Most of the best skins are difficult to start on a winter Eat Indian. They take strong. morning.
74. picnic
This has been a gift to French gure dyes well, and their only LeDuly care sa shake nfier cartoonists.
wearing, and 011 occardonal brushing with a rubber suede- Another
development of shoe, brush. interest to Britons motor- ing here-petrol-pump
craze for
With the present picules.
The idea is being tried out at a brightly coloured waistcoats to wayalde petrol pump on the way team with country suits,
women are choosing them
to Fontainebleau.
Beside the pump
Autumn ideas
iden to copy in briniant colours, to line a winter coat.
Entente cordiale
PARIS seems to be taking
sudden Interest in London as a fashion centre.
Two top designers who have Duld recent visits to London are Juls Pierre Balmain, to show two-colour, four-way,
rever- which
many
in
or
kible raincoat and hat,
has designed for an
is a giant suedo in ernerald, mustard. refrigerator. Drivers stopping yni blue. to refuel their cars ean De served at the same time with an lee cold, neatly wrapped packet, containing hors d'oeuvre, roast beef or chicken gruyere cheese, an orange, a boille of beer and a table napkin.
Like every other meal around here this one is expensive. Seven shillings.
Just like London
reason here, as in London.
HAND-KNIT twin
Deta
EngTM
from
fish fem. and Lou Claveri, talented young designer
Paquin, who Is Just designed In the first London collection this Paris house has produced, since before the war.
high
black, or a real luxury set in pure cashmere.
Claveri adapts French
Tiny round Genghis Khan fashion points to British fabrics Englishwoman's do- ellars of fur, muffs as big as and the
a small suitcase, or a very old and for practical clothes, His ICD- fur coat turned into a very new small compact collection. Ining.
tures oblique-line coats, nipped-
New Feeling For Sweaters
TLOPMENTS in the TWO NEWSY DEVE-
New York sweater market for autumn are the big in- crease in styled-up swenter. blouses, and the use of now yarna for classic sweaters.
Out of the first sweater lines to open, the most stimulating fashion, items of the year are now sweat, ers, styled with ribbing or voke and collar details, to look much like blouses.
They all have that well- known Paris sweater flavour.: Many are actual adaptations of sweatur-blouses from Paris, the manufaturers report.
Most of these sweaters will be washable-
this is one big reason manifneturers have su much confidence in the item. The sweaters have the style appeal of wool Jersey blouses, they polut out, but they can be washed. The yarns involved are regular rabbit's hair and One Lauge wool.
New Treatments
Here are Fome of the style ideas already coming through in these sweater novelties for autumn.
1. Middy types with a low- waisted, bloused feeling.
2. Button-on yokes.
3. New sleeve Ideas such as short, puffed sleeves which are tightly cuffed.
4. All kinds of new neckline' and collar treatments.
3. Double breasted, waist- tength toppers.
New Yarns
NEW YARNS are the big new, in clasate sweaters-in autumn lines now being shown.
Cashmere-nylon blends are cropping J everywhere. Samples alrendy shown are fine Finge
and very soft to the They are most often biends of 25 percent cashmere,
touch.
75 percent nylon.
The
new yarn which is part Vienra" (a protein Abre resembling wool) and part wool in a big entry at one large house,
of reported. Some
the qualities attached to the yarn are its moth resistance, absorp- tive power, washability.
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Lamb's wool is another newsy Yn on the autumn schedule and resident buyers already say they're enthusiastic about early previews and discusions they hal about it. At one house, lamb's wool and cashmere is a wonderful soft, new blend for that "budget cashmere appeal."
METAL MATERIALS In
lame Jersey and brocade. Hardy Amies uses wool fer- ney,
with д Fold' metal thread, for this fillored din- ner suit. The tapering skir! has slanting pockets, which tive hip emphasia.
Ideas for
your autumn beauty list include:
A bicoching cream to remove the last allow traces of tan-
Home
me touch from abroad.
Jol bead trims are the Intest in waists, high stand-up collars, This is the holes-in-road thing ins Parix, and you can three-quarter length jackets,
buy
jet-beaded bowe or flower fet bead embroidery and pill- Preumatic drills clatter cut-prays to transform a plain pair box hats of mink er Persian ning: o new 20-minuto pack ride the most elegant shops in court, skLocsi
the Rue de la Paix, where road blocks are being ripped up and A new kind of head scarf you can make yourself to protect replaced down the whole length your hair on blustery winter
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lamb.
you can use yourself at home pick-me-up,
Last days of summer for a complexion
and a new shade of deep bright” rod nail varnish and Lipstick specially designed to go with the winter colour, black.
nt the street Parts of the evenings: Banke a straight stole THE last days of summer and Rue de Rivoli are up, too..
of chiton to match your oven-> sunshine bring a new set
Cocktail which
not thinking" about fun lotions and makes de a matching panal of. people talk is the one called yelling which
the tanning and start striving for the winter camellia complexion. Club, served by
The military touch ing dress, and let into the mid- of beauty problems. You'n stop
Cotton
rogs over
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