Latest Parisian Fashions.
According to a French naper to hand, the skirt and bodice of the latest gown are still in one piece; but the waistline is normal and well-defined by a belt or trimming. The same long close-fitting corsets are “in ;” for the skirts, though draped in style, must lie closely round the hips. The drapings resemble- old-fash-ioned panniers, only instead of curving round tlio hips they fall right down the eide9.
Slenderness is still the only figure. Queer little tied-in trains are on all the afternoon and evening- frocks. Cloaks are long, but tlie out-dcor dresses worn under them are short to tlie verge of showing the ankles. They are tied in from the heels, as it wore, and the new fashion has created a new walk Tlie French woman now walks like a Japanese gi r L A very short time ago the panther-like glide was the elegant-woman’s aim. To-day, according to this journal, she reminds one of a doll on rollers.
Rice paner, upon which the- Chinese do such ■ charming drawings, is a thin sheet of prepared pith of a tree.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2716, 22 January 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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185Latest Parisian Fashions. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2716, 22 January 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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