For fashion professionals at the fall collections, it seemed like the old Paris. The French designers were not attempting to enforce new shapes or outmode last year's wardrobe. Instead they were presenting a big showcase of beauti. ful and splendid clothes. These pictures give Americans a first chance to see in color the rich and varied new Paris fashions.
The minor changes in silhouette that characterized both day and evening dresses appeared most dramatically in the formal clothes. Waists, seldom indented firmly at the natural line, were high or low or simply loose. Many of the fabrics were rich with embroidery but the most admired dress in Paris, done by Balenciaga, was almost starkly simple (next page). Dior made a big hit with a drifting chiffon (see cover). Short in front and long in back, it was designed to show off the female figure and was promptly snapped up by Marlene Dietrich. The elegant clothes in these photographs, all stars of their collections, are displayed against the elegant backgrounds of old Paris.
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