Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-10
dawn IS seen
|. OF THE FLOWING,
FLASHING SKIRT
IBy Latest NALL

PARIS, June 20.-Paris is very br.I-
liant just now. and every day between
4 and half-past the Place Vendome
and the Rue de la PaiX are crowded
with private motors waiting while
their owners have their dresses fitted.
their hats tried on, their shoes ad-
justed, or their spirits revived with
tea and fresh strawberry tarts. 1t is
a revelation in feminine luxury to see
the fayorite tea-rooms of this neigh
borhood any fine afternoon at this
time of the year. Every little table
is surrounded BY women so richly
dressed that each one carries a for
tune on her person. Her Jewels, her
laces, her feathers, her dress, and
every minor detail of her toilette are
absolutely perfect according to the
laws of fashion, and the more simple
the general effect, the more expen-
siVe are the separate points.
Frenchwomen are wearing all kinds
of feathers, and the prices they pay
for them are stupendous. 1t is in
vain that humanitarians appeal to
them on the grounds of cruelty; moth
ing seems powerful enough to wean
the Frenchwoman from her feathers.
Yet it would not be difficult to write
verse about the charm of the flower
hats, especially the white ones which
are now the fashion; white satin with
a tight trimming of white asters,
white MORE with grasses. white tat
fetas with water-lilies, and always in
shapes that are becoming. The draw
back to the white hats is that they
need the right complexion; otherwise
they make a tired face look more
tired and a sallow skin look sallower.
The main point is not to have the
white directly on the hair and near
the face, but line of black velvet
under the brim will generally put the
whole thing in tone.
The End of the Tight Skirt.
We may write the obituary of the
tight skirt, for it's day is, done, and
that of the flowing one has dawned.
All the dressmakers are showing
models with killed TUNES which are
quite long enough to be called skirts.
although a narrow underskirt still
protests against too much liberty for
our feet. But even in the case of the
underskirt there are scollops which
make for width; where a month ago
slit would show stockinged leg, it
now discovers a satin underskirt
Waists and hips are being swathed
in broad sashes, knotted loosely
either behind or at the side, and the
effect is a rounded waist-line and
slightly protruding hips, not exagger-
ated, scarcely indicated indeed, but
there, nevertheless: The bodice worn
with these skirts is a, long, straight
affair with long sleeves; sometimes
it buttons behind, sometimes in front,
and again, it may be fastened down
the left side from the shoulder. 1t is
not bloused and it does not quite fit,
but it loosely follows the lines of the
figure. At the throat it is slightly
open in square cut fashion softened
by loose frills or folds of net A mod
ell seen this week was in black lib
erty with a white liberty tunic trim
med with bands of black satin ribbon
in different widths, at least five rows
of them and the topmost quite mar
row. A broad sash swathed the waist
and the underskirt was scolloped and
frilled near the feet. Several modes,
made much on the same lines, but