Suits V (Modes & Travaux, May 1931)

 The cover of this issue of Modes et Travaux depicts a suit by Lucile Paray in green and black wool, with a white blouse made of crȇpe marocain.

The suit displays the pared down chic that was fashionable in the early 1930s.  Style is achieved by cut rather than by ornament.  In typical early 30s fashion, the suit lightly skims the model's figure and reaches to around mid-calf.

"Lucile Paray" was another one of those inter-war fashion designers who has been forgotten today.  Though now obscure, in her time she was well-known enough for her work to appear in the pages of fashion magazines around the world, had her designs sold as paper patterns through a number of major pattern companies, and designed the costumes for one film (Samson, 1936).  In 1937 she merged her fashion house with "Jenny", only to close her doors for good in 1940.