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The mode o{ 1921 emphasizes length of line. It was never better illustrated than in this dinner gown of black and white ■worn by Pearl White. It is of Mallinson pussv-willow satin with jet pailetted panels.
P ARIS, September — For the last month or two we've been wandering slightly alield in our fashion talks, but when I'm writing to you from Paris it seems the most natural thing in the world to come back to clothes. Clothes are to Paris what steel is to Pittsburgh. I suppose if the average Parisicnne were to be cast adrift on a desert island she would immediately begin to achieve a very chic anti dashing gown out of sea weed. She is like that — every one of her that I have seen on the boulevards. If you have an eye for line and color your first trip to Paris will be one ot unalloyed joy. No matter how shabby the gown or hat of a little girl of the Paris shops she will twist a bit of ribbon in her hat. or a knot of it at her throat, and — voilal — she is chic; she has attained the "something" that makes you turn about and follow with admiring eyes the trim, little figure and its trim, little, stubby sliocs.
She is one of the lovely sights of Paris — the little girl who trips blithely along on her various errands — but one's thoughts grow confused in trying to differentiate between the lovely sifhts here, they are so many and so varied. Yet they ail melt, somehow, into a harmonious whole. When you read this (he first snow flakes of winter may be flying, and it will mean an effort of will for you to vi^u ili/c Paris as I see it today —
Launching the
Photography by Old Masters
From Paris come hints by Photoplay 's
By NORMA
the Paris steeped in soft, autumnal sunlight : the Paris that is lovely at dawn, beautiful in the mellow light of midday, and fascinating when the lights begin to glitter along the boulevards.
Viewed from the Arc de Triomphe — where one looks along the colorful length of the Champs Elysees — or across the Pont Neuf to old Paris, under sunlight or softly-falling rain, it is equally lovely, this Paris of the artist, of the dreamer, of the sightseer from many lands. One of the things that I notice especially about the Paris crowds is that they seem always happy. One doesn't look to find much happiness in France, but it is here and very exndent to the eye of e\en the most casual obser\er. It is a quiet, cheerful sort of happiness, the
Such a rush for fur garments h«« never before been known either in America or France. Thi> wrap of evora and knlin.iky Gail Kane 15 hugging 19 smartly lined in printed pu5^y-willon' ti.>m M.illin'iin. .'Xiul -lu haj a feather on her hat, too!
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