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Grey wool, in tunic fashion, with long, gathered sleeves and perky black and white taffeta bow 'tie makes this frock the choice of smart and fashionable women who are not too short. Added is a-cir- cular cape of the grey, lined in black and white plaid taffeta. Kitty Carlisle, youthful star, is the model.
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The Importance Of Being Slim
Sleeves Dissimulate Evening Appearance
SOME EVENING FROCKS
almost bound to savour of the period. Second. Empire dresses are recalled by closely fitting. They bodices and wide skirts.. have the low shoulder, with the It is not compulsory for every- upper arms draped, perhaps, with one to be a sylph. It is useful spangled material. Many skirts where the new evening frocks are have flounces. Tulle may be used- concerned. For while full, skirts for these, the edge being frequently are worn, bodices tend to it slen-stiffened. The 1820 frocks shows derness rather than bulk, Also the the more bell-shaped fullness and Some wide sheath prevails, and sheaths are often has big sleeves.
the width being not generous ns-containers, even skirts are seen, though they be modified with ae-produced by no greater couplies. cessories,
tion than gathers, There is als
The sheath proves that it is the spreading Tudor note, and one possible to promote still more fit. that is alightly conventual with While last season's models still tight bodice and pleated skirt, allowed fullness-at the waist, the Taken in detail, evening models immediate exemplars only allow of have, much back fullness, made by a semblance of fullness. That is gathers, panels, pleatings, and this to say, earlier models had integral may start high up or low down. fullness, while in the new ones it Sometimes the panels themselves! is promoted by extraneous means are pleated. The fullness ranges of drapery, basques, hipswathing from the straight Directoire to the This full- A new velvet model fits at the spreading Renalasance. [bust, the waist, the hips. It is ness to some extent takes the place! given a certain looseness by means of the train, and it runs rather na of a sling neck and by arum-like turally Into a good deal of hip panels curving down the hips. drapery, which is used in the ir But it is not really loose, and by terest of the well-defined waist. into back the side of an other model looks Pantier draperies run almost tight.
draperies. Big pleats or ruffles on
One sheath may be long, with a the hips make for side fullness,
Wings train, or it may barely reach the ground. Sometimes it widens out: The next pronounced detail about suddenly below the knees; some evening frocks is the great variety times movement is made possible in the necks. These must include chiefly by means of a alit. The the shoulders, for many necks seem edges of dresses are often stiffen- to drop off the shoulder or run into ed. A stiff flounce may be used, or every variety of wing.
Necks are the process may be reversed and high, low, V-shaped, mitre, heart- a stiff transparent flounce used shaped. There are Renaissancef over the tight sheath.
All Sheaths necks and small squares.
A robe & for a queen, this negligee is of green satin with long, bell sleeves trimmed with crmine. A long befringed sash ties at a high, draped waistline as shown by beautiful Kitty Car- Hisle, of film fame.
LEARNING TO DRESS
often run down into traina, some these may be combined with various small and pointed. The Main- sorts of harness, which also affects bocher model Illustrates the larger the shoulders. Wings are often of Stiffened kind of traina Velvets and satins a different material. are employed chiefly for the sheath, silver gauze, stiffened net, spangled
If people would only study their which often has the lowest pos material all serve for wings which
views and profiles sible back. The low back is some spring up from the shoulder. The back Fashion is indeed so versatile times filled in with lace or net or stiffening of the hem is a secord thoroughly as their front views this season that no woman need spangled tulle. Spangles figure instance of interference with the ac. when they try anything on, and if wear an unbecoming line.
targely on the sheath frocke, some tual nature of the material. Some they would test the effect of sitting | 15 off-the-shoulder drapery, whereby of which are made entirely of them. times the stiffening is actually down in a skirt as well as standing 18 the dress is perhaps supported only These also have the low backs, done with a hoop, sometimes by up, and in movement as well
by whalebone and the front is covered sometimes by a small cape, eording,
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standing still, there would be many Flowers fill in a number of gapa. more good results and fewer dis They are worn at the belt, within tressing ones. Necks are often high in front, the yawning cowl. They finish off and these go with the low back. a wrap, instead of a clasp. These Small sleeves sometimes further also serve to give a spot of bright- dissimulate the evening appear-ness to a one-toned frock. Finally, ance, or would do, so but for the feathers have come to stay again. length of the frock. Cocktail Ostrich feathers fill up the split in ed 17 frocks are made on sheath lines skirts. There are many ostrich gifts.
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This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling. such as harbor, plow, and altho.
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9-iron spike
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(pl.)51-Young girl
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15-Ruler of a republie 67-State of being prone ∙18 Royal Navy (abbr.) 60-Sons of Veterans 19-Contends
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22-German rearadmiral 62-Part of a boat
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29 incite
31-Mother of the goda (Class Myth.) 33-Extirpation
VERTICAL
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36-A collectivist
41-Network (Lat.). |- 42-Hawalian garlands 44-Foot-like.organ 48-Augment
47-A monetary unit
(abbr.)
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VERTICAL (Cont.) 16-Combining form.
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87-Chiness plant
38-Ancient
26A Pilgrim Father 40-Blok 41-A paper manBUTO 43-Transgressions 44-Plots
48-Let fail
48-Raw metal (pl.) 50-Device for lifting 52-Moved rapidly 54-Marsh 55-Large continent 38-Residence (abbr.)
59-Gait (Lat.)
(91-Point of compass
(abbr.)
12-An emperor of Rome 03-A military title
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The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle. will appear in to-morrow's issue.
CLEVER HATS
Paris.
A highly professional knitter like Annyblatt makes the most mar- vellous coats and skirts with Jum pers and waistcoats to go with them. Her knitted hats are also very clever, and the colours she uses, as well as the stitches she knows, give style to the ensemble. This season she is doing a lot of knitting in relief, in stripes, squares, little shells, all sort of wonderful things. She makes hor
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out of shapes. Dark greens, mix If you have dark brown hair, ed greya, blues, warm yellows for hazel eyes, and a medium com- jumpers with brown skirt and plexion with very little colour, nas sweater; orange with brown, bril- a deep peach powder, lotion as the lant reds with black, and quite a basis of your make-up. This will' lot of mixed yarns to go with the give warmth to the skin. Use new tweeds she is using this sea peach powder with a russet red lipstick that has a matching rouge.
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