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EDWARDIAN ELEGANCE
GRACES PARIS STYLES
Fully Flared Skirts— Brief Jackets—-Braid
EDWARDIAN elegance combined with Victorian charm at recent Paris fashion openings at which the newest
materials, notably velvety velours and broadcloths, were shown for ail occasions. Fully-flared skirts,
brief jackets and soutache braid or wool fringe for trimming were typical of the Victorian era, while the
Edwardian line was straight in front with a hint of fullness at the back.
Between those 2 basic lines
came the modern "barrel"
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Silhouette reminiscent of the
1920's
in
bulging
sacklike
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coats or jackets ana skitts
curving in at the hem.
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Set-in sleeves were reserved for
tailored sportswear while the new
designs featured raglan sleeves,
batwing sleeves or the intricate
kimona type
s £ irt f , f ° r daytime were
still the talk of the town although
skirts ^or ^evening appeared^with
ankle-length or instep hemlines.
Jackets were much shorter generally
and many flaring skirts
were teamed with little Victorian
fitted
Jackets, while long skirts
allied to j acke ts with little basques
emphasised the long and slender
leg line. Plain jerseys of the
smoothest stockinette type, many
of them brushed to a velvety
dresses from sportswear to after-
n o ° n fro f S " f , * „ S
Topcoats of pilot cloth and
blanket cloth had reversible backs
while other plain coats were lined
with
checked tweeds for additional
warmth.
Pierre Balmain's sheepskin coats
proved the highlight of the season
and included a full-length model
in beige-dyed sheepskin with a
wool bob-fringe for trimming, as
well as a batwlng bolero embroidered
with large — 0 „ cabochon pearls
i or cocktail wear.
Evening dresses in pastel broadcloth
made fashion news, while
bands of the finest broadcloth,
known as satin de minuit, were
added to tulle frocks topped by
broadcloth jackets embroidered
with soutache braM
Among the hostess gowns was
ternate bands of erev and sutrarr
tic & P^k duvetyS ^hne d JacSe
violet
Griff e showed a parma vio
model in velour de laine with a
Peg-topped skirt fiinished with a
French mustard sash in wool jersey.
D _ _ _ i u /
ivegai were used Wraps for regal
Velours were used for tp^i
evening wraps.many of them made
as cloaks or with acape
cape movearound
the shoulders
moveand
^ niGnt es
chose supple black wool jersey
tor one of her full-length
cioaks worn over a simple white
jersey dress.
bweeping skirts lent grace to
'™ y , ° f ^he evening gowns predon
I? 0 - Society.of Lonr^Q^Fashion
Designers in their
export
\vooiiens collections and fine
Were used fQr many Qf
e most
exquisite models.
w a i re sbouI ders, full skirts and
fry embroidery characterised
.El glamorous evening wear
^"nan Hartnell, whose
, bl T a< i k wool cocktail suit
named Jetty appeared first with
and
then with a
ng Io
I
n S skirt slit up the
Iront seam.
Eye-catching
was a
coat in
three-quarter
br i ght blue
blanket cloth with a sacked back
large
I Pockets of -multicolored
sequins.
• Fi ne striped wool made a striki-J?
skirted evening gown in
the Worth collection while Victor
btiebel used wool embroidery as a
wide corset belt on a pale pink
wool dinner dress. He also showed
a full-skirted hostess gown in
grey worsted finished with puff
pockets ot fur.
. Peter Russell's dinner and evening
dresses were flowing and
sweeping the floor, emphasised on
the hipline by side bustles and
softely tucked in wide bands on a
straight silhouette.
Three wool models shown by
Hardy Aimes included a moss
green crepe dinner dress, the
crossover front of which was fastened
with gold sequin buttons
while good sequin embroidery dramatised
the sash and the cuffs of
the
three-quarter length sleeves,
Barathea
Black barathea made his dinner
suit, which had an ankle-length
skirt, fully pleated, topped by a
tailored smoking jacket, while he
used pale blue wool crepe for a
lovely evening blouse with sequin
embroidery on the shoulders and
ppaulettes.
Highlight of the dinner and
evening dresses presented by Angele
Delaghe was a dinner gown
of palest blue wool georgette with
an
unusual hand-embroidered
w „
™Pover cape collar.
Incidentally,
neariy
nearly
all her
frocks
were boned to make up for
lack
of
g° od British foundation
garments and she showed a few
dm n er dresses with ankle-length
skirts in contrast to her formal
evening gowns.
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