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Show HERE'S SPRING IN DECEMBER A'ffl 'I r ; I 5? 3; -1 r 1 Paris-l$Looking -At Styles You'll-Wear You'll-Wear Next Season By ROSETTE HARGROVE While women the world over have been busy making up their minds what they are going to wear this winter, snuggling wtth fitting, matching accessories and so on, the Pari creators have been concerned con-cerned with your spring styles, unveiled un-veiled In the midseason collections. Molyneux's collection offers, as usual, fashions that are easentially "ladylike." easy to wear and elegant ele-gant Colors are sober, and. while black still occupies first place In formal wear, it is alternated by dark greens, a reddish brown the color of old port, that undefinable shade known as eggplant and some lighter shades of beige. Including putty. Daytime) Necklines The all-black dress is always relieved re-lieved by a touch of color, and Molyneux's Moly-neux's latest idea is to complete It by a colored printed silk scarf In place of a walstbelt, or by a lame sash for dreesup occasions. Finely woven woolens and ailk erepon are made up into aimple little frocks that continue to show a high neckline, long, plain sleeves and skirts which feature a hint of fullness compared with the pencil-slim pencil-slim silhouettes of the August collection. col-lection. Pressed pleats or sunray pleated gores break the monotony of these skirts In vertical lines. Suits are equally simple, with skirts pleated and jackets short and jaunty, fitted through the waistline and nearly all finished with collars and revere In fur. Extremes for Evening Afternoon and sports coats either hang loosely from the shoulders and show a couple inches of the frock or skirt or else they are fitted and narrow. Flares have disappeared. ' Equally smart for town end country If this ocelot twegger, with interesting shoulder! end cone-sheped pockets pieced high et the waistline. The metching fur cap is e pertly modified version of the Scotch cep. Stained flats paillettes in n ell-over ell-over design ever black tulle distinguish Meinbocher's effective evening gown, which several smart women have bought. A simple black satin ribbon maris the waistline. The tubular, almost hobble evening eve-ning gown shares favors with the romantic picture frock. The former for-mer molds the figure and the slightest slight-est hint of fulness is Introduced low down at the back. Scarf draperies starting from ths decollete and carried car-ried to the back of the waistline, where they form detached panel trains, are featured, and there are some draperies reminiscent of the bustle but treated in a modern manner. man-ner. The picture gown acquires l width in a very gradual fashion from just below the hipline and is inclined to be less voluminous than those of three months ago. These are shown in soft satin, in moire ottoman and in velvet. Decolletes are generous but far less revealing than with other creators. cre-ators. Dinner gowns are either long sleeved or else show high bod- jices which leave the shoulders bare. Skirts are long, almost shoe-tip length and many end in short trains. Suite Fur Trimmed Paquin's new evening gowns are I divided between the glamorous "in-i "in-i fanta" dress with stiffened, often undulating hip-yoke onto which is gathered a full skirt, and the more modern draped skirt with fulness concentrated in front, leaving the back perfectly straight The tubular, tu-bular, pencil-slim line is present in this collection in the form of a black net dress with a petal-shaped ruche made of countless layers of the net forming a knee-high flounce. Suits and coats, for which the house of Paquin la renowned, are youthful, gay with color and always trimmed with fur. Black satin is not only featured for evening wear but also for youthful youth-ful afternoon dresses, which rely on intricate decorative effects achieved by fine handwork such as shirring, pintucking or, in some instances, the addition of transparent lace or net yokes and sleeve bands for their touch of formality. All these dresses are cut on simple lines, with skirts which preserve the straight line even when a gathered front panel is introduced. |