La Mode

Further unfolding of feminine modes for Spring at Paris (TIME, Jan. 30) resulted, last week, iri manifestations as follows by smart shops:

Jane Regny: All around circular skirts, swinging fully and freely with each step.

Madeleine des Hayes: Two-material gowns, uniting clinging chiffons with bouffant taffetas.

Rasmus: Chic jacket suits, matched and worn with tailored circular capes.

Lucien Lelong: Gowns of intricate cut, moulding and revealing the curved lines of the figure, executed in subdued light shades. Said M. Lelong, last week: "Woman returns to the elegant, poised, long-limbed, distinguished figure. She abandons with relief the bony, jazzy flapper figure, evoked by the aftermath of War hysteria."

That the scant-clothed figures of U. S. show girls must and will follow the new mode, rounding out bony flappers into elegant Junos, was proclaimed last week at Chicago by famed Florenz Ziegfeld. Added he: "I don't make a type of girl a favorite. I simply try to pick the girls to fit the clothes the designers provide."

British male fashions as distinguished from French feminine modes were subjected to ponderous analysis, last week, by Sir Edwin Forsyth Stockton, potent British textile merchant. His most vital point: "The recent general turning up of trousers at the bottom has opened up a very important branch of trade, since it has created a demand for the fancy sock. The modern man of taste wants his socks exposed to view and to harmonize with his trousers and the general scheme of his dress."