At one of the biggest exhibitions in the Champs Elysees, writes "Fanfreluche," after witnessing the defile of some 250 ney winter models of day and evening gowns, tailor-made and fou dresses, just before leaving I remarked to the principal vendeuse upon the Bumerous models of all kinds that were provided with the new high throat collars, and she replied:
smart, and many foreign buyers they are very new and have purchased them, but oue'we, men won't have them at any price. So, of course, they will have to And so they will. French women have long ago discovered that the low-neck line is not only youth. ful and most becoming to all. but also now realize—because so many doctors have insisted upon the fact—that the woman who leaves her neck bare to the open air in all weathers never has a wrinkled neck in her old age! Nothing preserves the beauty of the neck as the absence of the high close-collar.
jose women who have adhered to the fashion of the tight collar rarely, if ever, show their neck en decollete in the evening.
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Jenny is the house in Paris for the petite robe. There are numereus models of this kind of toilette. The skirts are, if possible, shorter and tighter than ever. There is not a vestige of the "wide-hip" skirt now to be seen. Many skirts have an arche hem line in front, and are slightly longer behind. The favourite type of model for the petite robe has a long, rather loose, and lightly draped flat bodice which fastens at the back. But it does not close all the way down. I¢ is fastened by a single button or by a small, loosely-tied bow of narrow ribbon at the top, and is allowed to remain open to the waist. There is usually some band of contrasting colour beneath the open corsage at the back, which gives a very new effect to the gown behind. The half-opened corsage at the back is indeed a novelty, and there are many models of this. Another novelty at this house is the new manner of mounting the sleeves. They are mounted somewhat high, and the line of the mounting is surrounded with either embroidery or jet or metal trimmings that match other trimmings on the gown.
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