The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-22
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It's Fashion Revel In Fair time Paris
By RosETTE HARGRovE

NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 Paris Midsummer .. Bosky shadows in the Bois. Blazing sunlight along the Champs Elysees .. Cafe terraces bright with sheerest, coolest things-in costumes as well as glasses.
 Fashion creators are busy behind locked doors, frenziedly working with shears, tapes, materials. Once in while 8 whisper of the autumn styles-to-come leaks out through keyhole. .. Alas, how fleeting, how inconstant is the mode! So short time ago, "Wallis blue" was everywhere. Now it is as conspicuous by its absence as the lovely Duchess herself.
 As fashionable Chantilly, ritziest of race meetings near Paris, the very "dernier cri' was the white crepe dress. Among the arbiters of style who wore it were Madame Martinez de Hoz, Princesse de Faucigny-Lucinge, Madame Revel, Madame Achille Fould.
 Prints Are Conservative
 Vionnet's bias-cut dresses have that inimitable touch in the form of drawnthread work or expert flag goting," rather full umbrella skirts and elbow-length full sleeves, some with dropped shoulders.
 Prints are very conservative main ly small designs in white on black or vice versa. Polka and other dots follow the same rule, with quite 8 few navy dotted on white surah grounds, and good deal of black and white. Flower prints dis erect, though multicolored and in crepon rather than crepe de chine.
 White suits, whether in silk or linen, are completed by black silk net or lace blouses and black or black trimmed hats.
 The triumph of the wide-brim- med that is definitely established. Smaller varieties divide between flower and ostrich-feather trims.
 Very few trailing frocks of the "garden-party" persuasion. Those which graced the beautiful race meetings were much more tailored than in former years and seldom longer than just below the ankles.
 At the Exposition
 Latest craze: Lunching and dining at the Paris Exposition's Italian res- taurant, in the Italian Pavilion. Women come dressed in simple frocks, or suits completed by auda- cious hats, with high-f1ung brims turned up on one side.
 Dinner is pretext for the new ankle-length "tailleur" with short jacket or bolero displaying gen. erous portion of intricately- worked chiffon or organdie blouse or dress top or else the jacket itself is gay with spangled revers. It is worn with a small hat, Suzy's gay turbans with high crown in one color and torsade trimming in two or three different shades or chorister caps, bespangled or embroidered, completed by full, flowing net veils. Other evening hats-or rather coif- fures-combines flowers, ribbon and veil, all very gay and light in effect.
 Informal Dinner Dress
 Molyneuxs don't dress for din- ner" models in plain black crepe with pailletted pockets and inner vests are being worn by smart wo- men for cocktail parties, informal dining ending up with the show at the Bal Tabarin, as well as at the exposition.
 Footwear is reduced to sandals showing wide or narrow leather straps, sometimes facing well above the ankle. Pailletted crepe sandals (the front only embroidered with very high heels, are very new
 Soft suede gloves, wrinkled over the arm, in delicate faded pinks, blues, greys, champagne or duck egg blue, always contrasting with the color of the dress, are worn for afternoon and informal evening parties.