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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Inspirational It's Not Too
Spring Accessories
CCESSORIES now
A being shown in nort
collections in New York. give a preview of items that will be in the lime- light later and which trend-setters for resort and summer fashions.
are
JEWELLERY: Little tur- quoise atud clips to to with dressy day dresses.
Chunky star-fish clips match coll necklaces in jet. Back- loop litter necklaces are im- portant with evening dresses. Gold accents important because of so much white shown in rendy to wear dresses.
WILITE-WITH-WHITE is
Much To Ask Of One Coat
W
London. which buttoned over the poc
HAT is a "travel kets; pale blue cotton poplin, with silk fish and high plain coat"? Is it a coat neck; and deep turquoise proof-
cotton, mode specially designed ed
all-weather for travellers? At present,
which would brighten any the term
In general, women are hercing, more colour-conscious
and there is a strong bon dency
ency to break away from the traditional grey, brown and neutral shades that dominated mincoats for so long. Tantan held its own for a surprising length of time, but women are finally tiring of it
is being loosely street. applied to all manner of conts, from heavy tweeds to water-proofed cottons.
In spite of the high clothing conte in England at the mo- ment, more and more women are buying their wardrobes here before departing to
warmer
Feature
Notable climate or a holiday
away from the notoriously now and white jewellery damp English winter. An in- is chosen by many manufac~ | creasing number of these turers for co-ordinating their women are demanding "travel" fashions. White bats, gloves, coats that live up to the name. shoes and white belts are the choice with white that looks newest. Because there is, so much of white-ground stripes, prints and checks, all-white is significant.
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out
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A travel cont, therefore, has to full a number of functions. It must be crease-resisting, water-proof, fairly loose, and extremely fashionable. It must look at home in an acroplane for a race-meeting or cocktail or on a boat-deck, be suitable party, and de duty as an even
Another Trend
BELTS:
Metallic Ashnet belts on casual dresses. Wide contour belts in blucking wrap. or navy heavily studded with big coloured stones stand on classic monotone dresses, Big metal huckles alve
look
to fabric belts. An elaborate buckle in a big fish form is new looking and dramatic on a narrow
belt. Polo belts of fabric to match casual dresses are chown fre-sea quently.
new
BUTTERFLIES are shown in the hair, worn on 1 narrow clip band, with bathing sults and playclothes.
SMOKED PEARL BUT- TONS in big water size give excitement to simple dresses.
STOLES
arc frequent, The long
rebozo type with deep fringe borders is one that recurs in many collections,
This is a great deal to require of one coat, but London fashion
houses hove produced an us-
new
tonishing variety for the season. Apart from the travel coat, another trend is fast de- veloping
That is the masculine and
practical, La flored, patch pockets, vents, deep cuffs and stitched collar, usually but toning right down the front, and narrowing at the hem.
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A feature of the collection was the re-introduction of capes in finest cashmere, Not women can successfully wear them, but the effect is
very Fraceful. Only one suit was shown, and it had a 7/8 length cape in brown gabardine, faced with brown and white West of England cloth.
A number of straight neat costs, in fine checked cloth, or herringbone gabardine, showed the masculine Influence. They had large patch pockets, double stitched scams, vents, and tailored revers. Sleeves were tabs on set in, and many had buttoned the cuffs. One of the must attractive colours was soft Lovat green.
type of coat with serviceable shepherd's plaid. It buttoned
New Combinations
One collection seen in London recently managed to
combine both new trends very fully.
success- Aquascutum produced what is, in our opinion, the coat of the
Cut year.
in a complete FABRIC GLOVES ap-
circle, it has the latest neefcline Chinese collar, is pear agnin to
cut high Uke a Chl match dresses. They are, often printed taffeta on white ground.
PATENT
SCUFTS
Bre
Jn
'The
coat
Gabardine was used for a reversible coat, lined with West of England cloth in the familiar
straight down the front had raglan shoulders, and a detach- able hood, Both sides were proofed against moisture.
Shepherd's plaid, and the iner hounds' tooth check, is becoming rapidly popular for coats. It is followed closely by the well-known Glen Urquhart check
Reverse Is True
AT LEFT: Designed by Aquascutum is
fall into tho this fine grey covert twill proofed
Some women mee error of thinking that a mas- grace
colour
with
Quite the reverse is true.
in line stone gabardine, and has 17 black facings. The line is ful, and
the lack of decoration culine coat demands severe length coat, complete with velvet collar admirable.
is particu- hat, LEATHER
larly good for going to warm By no means wear a hat piled and four lines of stitching round the hem. climates, because of
of its
decorations,
flowers, now beach
feathers Other
and veiling, but shoes shown at one important coats, light and gay enough for
ing and light weight.
the other hand, avold sportswear house. There is so hot countries, and at the same matching hats. Choose pest much texture (embroidery, time proofed against rain, were
fashionable shapes
the in Jewelled surfaces, prints, etc.) in musual materials.
gayest contrasting colours you can find. Aquascutum preferred
in bathing suits that smooth-
textured shoes are in order Scarlet rayon
poult, with plain coloured berets for most
for contrast. Another house narrow black belt and flaps of his models, shows beach thong-scuffs
black and white,
in
BY JOAN ERSKINE
SCHIAPARELLI
BOWS
AT RIGHT: scutum is
Also designed by Aqua- this coat in fine stone
garbadine with black facings. It is cut
in a complete circle and has the latest neckline cut high like a Chinese collar.
The success of the
party this year will look-
VELV
SLINKY
By EILEEN ASCROFT
"mudguard," an important style
Best fashion news of the week is that permanent pleating has at last arrived in this country. After two years of experiment and research, "materials such as nylon and acetate rayon fabrics can now be pleated without the assistance of stitching or fusing, and the pleats will stand up to continual washing and hard WEIT.
IT'S AN IDEA ...
ELVET and net will be garments will no longer be pure Roy Alderson, artist and anti- favourites of the wool, but a mixture of wool and quarian, has introduced a novel,
synthetics. Christmas party season.
space-saving dining-table lato Prewar cost of on all-wool his Chelsea house. When enter- The new slinky "mermaid" worsted cloth WIS
can op- taining guests he
let the linc, introduced by Paris proximately 45. 6d. a yard. In table, ready laid, down from the designer Jacques
June 1950, the same Fath.
material ceiling by means of a pulley looks good in velvet, but cost about 255. Just before the with four ropes, Underside of Wool price advances the table, and its folding trestle care should be taken when manufactures were quoting 30s. legs, 19 covered with old. buying. Velvets have very Today, where a quotation can fashioned cabbage rose pat- different personalities; some further increase of
be given at all, it shows 4 terned wallpaper to match the
about 30 ceiling.
wear
Latest
wear
well, others mark percent more than coven times almost as soon as you look the prewar cost.
Mrs E. M. Henderson, from at them.
Manufacturons of utility outer- Switzerland, who makes many will have to face this of the sprays that decorate the problem when designing their dresses and hats of the Queen next autumn collections, as most and the two Princesses, has de- of their spring range materials signed a collection of dollar- are already bought.
cat-hing flowers, which salt in
The girl who likes a billowing skirt will find plenty of net and tulle models in the shops, with many-layered skints of shaded colours over taffeta underskirts. It is all very well for Mr the Mauritania. From old This is pretty young style, Harold Wilson to appeal for "a prints she has made copies of much favoured By
wider appreciation of the grow extinct cammations, which are Princesses and their
ing usefulness of synthetic named after Chelsea, London, friend Sharman Douglas.
abres." The
aroblem is full of anxi Greenwich Village, New been-aper will choose de pitfalls, and it looks as though York, localities. licate pastels, white is right for a lot of experimentation will
every
the
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Express Service),
and for the more have to be done reluctantly by (World Copyright Reserved-London
at the public'A sophisticated there is midnight manuf notarents bhic or black over silver or gold, expense.
Even among
models many
the newly. *
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arbroidered bodices.
A Bradford
textile
experi
If you makes this interesting comment:
rayon
feel that the strapless style is the technical dimeulty is not flattering-and, let'o to that only one type of honest, it suits one woman in (staple fone) is really suitable 50-It can always be cottened for blending with wood. Unfor- with a matching stelo of tulle. tunately there is a very great
shortage of this product. AL the moment every pound of the Obre which is made is being usod."
PARTY POINTERS
Something to give....festive perfumes hidden inside gay foll
I have seen this rayon-wool Christmas fairies and trees.
Something to w
wear....from mixture used in
and it does
300
of the
For the public's sake I hope #twill be made compulsory for garments made of the mixture fabrics to bear a label to that effect, giving the percentage of puro
wool and syrthotic materials used.
hair stylist Raymond comes a spring collections, party hair decoration idea, look and feel good. The tallar which can be copied for a few tells me that the material works pence, Erightly coloured pipe up like pure wool worsted. aleaners are dreaded through silver or coloured beatis, twisteet inte loops or bows, and fixed to hair combs or alldes
Bomething to servo....smnall sprigs
cauliflower arranged on a plate round centre bowl of pink sauce, make in unusual pre-dinner or party delkacy
To make the sauce
of traw
THE FLAT-SEASON
Spring shoo forecast made by mix two kinds malad mayon- a loading aboo menidacturer is one-hard tomato that four of every 10 padre of DRẮNG Band
and
should be shoes wold eat spring wil be into antice but outing. Matchooled sys starring the One thing is clour from, the wedge beni, ellhor the American storp - riso, of wool. 'prkony, by or imposed wodate OF the many cheaper outer wour Englets torpe wredaro, with the
HUGE BOWS on each shoulder catch the eye in this evening gown by Schlaparelli of Paris. Red and green are the predominant colours of the gown which is in multi-coloured velvet. The bown are of the same material as the gown.
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PINK SALMON
This Juliet cap for Xmas patila, la: made of very, Das.. painon – toned Pailletion and trimmed with tarte of fontbora
exactly to match, Necklace mad ONETIZEN ATO arsikofal,
'London Rosrun Berríos,