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PARIS FASHION NOTES.

THE SPECIFICNESS OF THE CLINGING LINE.

FROM OUR SPECIAL COMRESPONDENT. ISABEL BLINSAY", }

PARIS. March 23rd. Straight Lees have been the rule for the isons which have sucpreded 1913. The war cad its passion for venoms of everything from beef to material prismp- bed the beginning at the narrow, straight garments which have gone

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seful figures of our beautiful wonen (and some other figures not so hatul hat nevertheles each season has brought its changes. gear the Second Empire | influence was in full swing mul we were all wearing our shoulders very low findeed, ses low thus the steine lægera long after they

arm did. The result, naturals ugh, was a remarkably loose ggs Belice, which utterly come abd the forms of the bust and supressed the waist as as it as possible to suppress ang natural fact.

The present the Second Empire in the care has gone where all style inspirations co (wherever tha: 14) and in its place rules the Director influence. As a result our arms are very justle and exactly fitte into their sees, and the main of the goincide with the tists: periretiy

the body and the arm. As a juncture f further all the buslices descending from the armholes clasp the figure elverly and have a more than noticable tendency to follow the natural curves of thorax.

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un hip. This singing (though not, strictly speaking. ttoli e dominates the style of undas. The frock may have a low waistline or the indication of a high waistline, or a slightly below normal waist,

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no waistline at all (as the four is still with me in full force), but it is botni to fallow the lines of the arm and Front the armhole down it follows the tines of the figur in a mor the triguing

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and" suits have a pestions of apqaranop artetim and justures ur cat which is most attractive The material falls from the shoulders, but it is fired xactly to the older that it falls sery near the indy, and it takes on the lines of bust. was, and hip Having deruded that far the skirt will fall from the hips, an though it is cut wraight (unless it be a Changchun

Chefoo circular skirt) it somehow manages to stay close to the lines of the thighs. Th Dairen pleated skirt is a typient, illustrate of Hailar this tendency. Everyone knows how a pleated skirt behaves it falls from its point of support, but at the site in ing pleats give the cloth a tendency to

to cling to and follow the lines of the figure. By

Foreign Exchange,on the Principal Cities of some magic of cutting the Parisian cou-the World bought and sold. turier makes his straight skirt, cxecute

1. DAINES. much the same manoeuvre, and there is

Manager. Do circular skirt which is not made of supple enough material to cling in its own, supple manner

-trations of this clinging line appear

in i every type of model be it suit, afternoon zown, murning frock or grande robe. A ensemble of. Lucien Lelong the effect with a charming, deft-

at the three The ki

achieves th new

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ength coat are of navy blue crepe.

is of the wrap around rarely

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Irans granted on approved securities. closely about the figure, and

held Current Accounta apered and Fixed shut at the left hip by the wearer's left Deposits received at Rates which may be ascer elbow. The close fit of the armholes aalained en application.

The Bank the

A also conducts Saviez< the tight wrapping of the coat about hip mak fug the closest kind of lines Department.

K. LA in this charming garment. The coat further diverified by a series of thre Tucks at the end of the sightly belled slaves, and the insertion of straight side panels of tucks at either side of the cont the panels descending from the hip line the hem of the skirt. The under section

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the cunt. The skire is tight and mar row, and stop, well above the ankleÿ.

The blouse is one of those long, tunic affair; which thecus almost to the kires and is girdled about the hips with a sa-l of the anne material as the blouse, which i of a printed foulard of gay tints which enliven a harmonize with the navy bluc of the skirt and coat

The Same olinging lines appear in an evening gown from Page which is fashion-

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ef of lad, re-embroidered with many hued are non existant, The gown has a sok of Bowers. The кожа "is decreless and the self material embroidered at the ends with aries are utterly bare, the armholes being appliqued flowers of chiffon in three cut to very exactly tally with the joining colours. The cat which accompanies is of the arms with the body. The gown has is so long as to cover the short gown entim no gird but a shaded scarf of chiffon ly, and, the coat being removed the gown attatched at the right hip in a ling looped offers a surpris for the girdle may be bow whose ends fall lower than the hem removed from its place, knotted about the of the skirt.,

hips and ped as a carf, wound around Another exaraple of the rule Four the throat: Aung across the shoulders, or

from shoulder to waist, with a skill The loopet from is en in Lelong's collection. Tenu

of the ann. material

turn of ig black crepe marving, and i- embroidered in rhinestone brilliant. The The scarf is one of the continually recur- lines of the gown are simple but flatteringring motifs in the now summer styles. It From tine honderstraps the gown despers again and again with the tail- ends following the lines of the figure to pred suit making for softness and a touch hips, and on the left hip there is an of bright colour which makes milder the insertion of fulles, id in small, dia severity of those most severe of feminine

pil, which fall, straight, ad arments the tailleur-sailleur." Acty~!

them-eive into a train. This ally. I I nem willing to souch that it is the accompanied by a black satinfluence df t

the

carf that had made the Prewing wrap callared with white Fox, one

ut popular in France One

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of the most popular furs for the warm particularly mannish edition of this type of garment that I Milw yesterday on the One of the fashion authorities of Paris Place Vendome was of black serge with a has said that the morning gowns are nowhite

white hairstripe. The model of jacket

Yually

the

my while the afternoon gowns an answered to all the cannons of the season's preternaturally discreet: This furt draws taste by fitting the shoulders closely the two styles clow together in line, and

The Skirt was short widens the difference between them, and fling straight to the hips with a sligh

the waist. matter of colour. A charming morning it probably had a white linen blouse and narrow. No blotse was apparent, of bright Chinese red but is fabriced · alpaca and is with white

The lines of very discreet design hidden beneath clinging

though that fact did not matter the coat, well to

gown

of the

gown are darrow, the figure. The

the nerves fit

but on

beurli in the for rather a large handkerchief

brown and white and chineeve red which, gloves have a pretty way that dong kid.

of doing when wors by a 'womina

was tucked under the thin so that it fell

Like with pretty arms who knows how to so in looped folds for all the world

off at their full valus. The neck

wimple of a

showed is

a Medieval lady wid thims round, and so high that it covers the col in this guise between the severe V of the lar bone, and is adorned with a double jacket's revers. As the hat worn with it collar of white organdie piped in the same was one of the brown straw doches which shade of red as the gown. The girdle is is popular this

As the trimming was hi, year, 19 low and is fastened with a large galalit of chineese red leather flowers, as the buckle at the centre front, which is odd. stockings matched exactly the skin of thi for the gown is one of those charming, one pretty little wearer, and as the sandals sided affairs which class at the left an der than the brown of the scarf, and c wer of cordovan leather, ons shade red- had its closing accentuated by a white piping and a set of large buttons and has the gloves were of brown kid matching the tonholes closing the upper portion of the scari and strapped about the wrists with skirt

red kid straps would pronounce the en- Similar in line, but more sober in to semble one of the most perfect that could is a black satin afternom ensemble. Tha be achieved. Who shall criticis Paris fourreau is broken only by the insertion of favour for the tailored suit. Not I, nor, pleated pano's at either side. The square any of us, so long as coloured handker neckline is modestly high, but the sleeves chiefs and pretty gloves are allowed to

(Continued at foot of next colieran.) be wory with it.

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