1938-03-26 — Page 2

Most sensible

day clothes for

years

ROBB & LUCY

MILNER

BEGIN THEIR SUMMING UP OF THE SPRING SHOWS

The only really helpful guide, because it has been written when ALL the shows have bean scen.

THE best news about the day

clothes in this spring's Paris dress shows is their lack of any. sort of exaggeration.

Women, says the head of one fainous tailoring house, are tired of playing the role of guinea pigs for fashion designers' experiments. What they want is something elegant but casy to wear, distinctive but unaggres- sive,

We have probably all of us thought that for a long time, but this is the first chance' we've had of getting what we wanted.

Your arst choice for spring will certainly

be a sult.

Points about Jackets

S

Lallormades have softened into more

becoming dress-

maker sult. Jackets are longer (short ones always were trying to every figure but the siimmest), down to about two inches above the

diz- wrist; exaggerated lapels have appeared, and so have high, close-fitting necklines.

New ones are open to show off the new blouses-and those are so elegant that you'll want to show them.

There is a new line in collarless jackets, In jackels that don't fasten at all, and in jackets and topcoats that are slit up the back like riding coats.

Coats are Collarless

THREE-QUARTER or wristlength coals are out of faveur; overcoats sweep down to full-length in an unbroken, graceful line, sometimes panelled, always with some fulness in the back. They are mostly collarless, and button with one or three buttons at the walsi, leaving the skirt to swing out and show the suit or dress un- derneath.

Skirt lengths are unchanged at about fourteen inches from the ground, but skiria themselves are far easier Atting than the dead straight ones of last season. They get their fulness from pleats or slightly flaring panels, generally set in at the buck, and pressed to hang flatly when you are stand- ing stil.

In case all this sounds a bit nega- tive, I musi say that designers have put enough ingenuity into de- tails to give every one of us a chance to assert our personality. Take your plek of these:-

In

TRIPES or SPOTS, sunc-

times both, appear on one

three of the 1838 suits. Pin ing. (One blue sult even hnd stripes, broad stripes, shadow stripes paisley hankie tucked into a pocket are cut vertically and horizontally, at the back, looking for all the world making their own trimming by the like a drake's tail), way they are arranged. Pulka dots

are in, as they are each spring.

BLOUSES:

Spots and stripes meet on this dress and coat. Coat, striped like a wasp with yellow lines on black, is collarless, has ond button at the waist, and swings out to show the spotted frock under- neath.

Frock is yellow and black too, but this time black spots on a yellow background, and the coat is lined with the dress material.

Stripes on the coat run horizontally across the front, vertically on the back, sleeves, and edgings to the cuffs. Frock is simple, with a stand-up wing collar and a pleated skirt. The pleats are stitched down as far as the knees in front, rise gradually up the sides and right up to the hips at the back.

Suit in powder blue wool crepe, with fitted waist, but no fastening. Panels of deeper blue are let in from the shoulder and run down to point, following the line of the lapels, and the two colours are repeated on the sleeves, light on top, dark underneath,

The skirt is easily full, pleated centre front, and this pleat is again lined with the darker blue. Waistcoat, with a fold-over scarf neck, is of warm, claret-coloured jersey,

Perky. Breton bat is powder blue felt, with a darker crown of gros- grain.

THE LATEST “HITS” ON REX RECORDS

HEMLINES are marked by 9207-That Old Feeling (Vogues 1018) F.T.

or

stitching Except for

scalloping. One of the skirts I saw few real shirtwaists, in had a double hem, one an

Inch tricately tucked, blouses go outside shorter than the other; good idea if skirts, and are pointed in front like you want to make your skirts look a waistcoat.

shorter but fear your legs can't take Necks are mostly high, arranged like a stock or Peter Pan-plain and

MATERIALS: Fine wool: round. Favourite material is the silk, Mflannel serge: gabadine; and very good it is; favourite designs, whipcord (lovely for jackets this, stripes and spots, or mull circles the sort of stuff they make riding and squares on a dark background.

breeches of): alpaca; linen.

QHOULDERS ore slightly

It.

♬ TRIMMINGS: Inset panels more squared than be-

of contrasting colours and fore, but not exaggeratedly so, only materials are seen over again running enough to balance the extra fulness up the centre back of a Jacket and in skirts,

down the seams in front. Pockets are present but unobtru- sive, patch or silt.

Quite often back and front of a jacket, or top and bottom, are two different colours Rows of white WAISTLINES are more or stitching, sometimes Imitating lace, less normal. As nest way stitchinandens, collars, cuffs, and

of moving the line about is to have jackels of dark suits.

д

wide belt made either of your

blouse stuff

look

(to make your waist

lower) or of your skirt stuff

COLO

OLOURS are gay and true misty and pastel, but make it look higher). (to

right away from the strident violets Outstandingly

were bells and magentas of last year. now

Grey (narrower than ever) buckling at and navy blue are easy winners for the side or back, never in tront. spring suits; powder blue, beige and When they fastened at the side dusty pink for later in the year. they just carried on the fastening Accompanying colours for line of the skirt; when they met at blouses, scarves, hats are different the back they were given a crazy shades of red, strawberry ico pink, buckle, a coloured tab, or a bow of periwinkle blúo and bright mlinesu some sort to emphasise the new iden yellow. Pink and blue go together of making back views more interest- a lot of the time.

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FASHION FOOTNOTE

Ergull over-the-eys beret la "still"

with us but we shall wear hala on the back of our heads again:2 during the coming months,

In the new millinery displaýa there are high and low hats, with Thrims and without, Turbans are» also part of the spring fashion" Ipicture.

Black velvet, black faille, black Taffeta mostly stitched, la used fo fathlon piquant little caps as well

as high hats, Black velvet, al-", ways smart for almost every ones who can wear black, is used to make twists masquerading as hats and they have a lure impossibles to describe with veils, and sequin trimming.

I Prefer Bachelors

THE HON

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ALTHOUGH I would be Mr. BUSINESSMAN

the last person in the world to add to the diatribes already written about that much-publicised person, the "bachelor girl," my long ex- perience as a landlady has taught me that male lodgers are infinitely preferable.

For one thing, young men are so much less fussy than young women. If the bed has been made rather hastily, or some- one has forgotten to sweep un- der the chairs, it is ten to one that the male lodger will not notice it. The woman lodger will "bring the house down" at

once.

Then there is the vexed ques- tion of food. It is my bellet that men appreciate their food more than women do. At all events they are far more lavish In their congratulations-though perhaps some people would say that is because they know less of the economies of cooking! Anyway,

praise is always welcome, and stimulates one to greater efforts. TIDIER AND MORE PUNCTUAL

were

I suppose feminine readers would be indignant if I said that men tidier in their habits than women. It la true that the neat- ness of some women puts the rather casual tidiness of men to shame. On -the other hand, some of my women lodgers-the type who have left the narrow conventions of their homes for the freedom of living by them- selves fling their possessions about with a careless abandon.

At all events, men are the more punctual, and for the landlady, this la an enormous asset. I rarely have to keep the dinner waiting for a couple of hours because my male lodgers have unexpectedly met an old-friend, though I am constantly. doing this for girls.

But why is it that no man seems able hour in the morning? In spite capable of getting up at a renson-

of all my efforts, my male lodgers steadily get later and later. The result is a burnt breakfast for them, and delay in clearing the table and making the beds for me.

Another complaint I have against men is that nono of them seems to know what an ash-tray is made for. I have long been resigned to my carpots being discoloured by aah, but I still jib at having them burnt, and when men are about that hap-

CHANGEABLE WOMEN

You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming. FT.

9200-When My Heart Says "Sing". F.T.

For Only You. F.T. 0205-Gangway, Q.5,

Moon or No Moon, F.T.

BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS LANSDOWNE HOTEL, ORCH. 9208-0 IIits of the Day. .18.

(80 Rare, You Can't Stop Me, First Time I Saw Yos, That Old Feeling, etc. 9203-Little Old Lady.

FREDDY GARDNER'S ORCHESTRA pens all the time.

Goodnight to You All ́

One of the greatest banta in a landlady's life is those peculiar "economy

waves" that да мапу -women seem to find necessary from time to time. No Aоoner has one do tho washing and arranged to supply four meals a day than the she cannot possibly afford these things.

9186-Bluging Marine, Selection...PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDION BAND. woman lodger suddenly decides that 9196

9197-Calling All Cars.

My Irish Song. b. Angel,

Something in My Eye.

You've Got to Take Your Pick & Swing 0195–Gianina Mia. "Firefly".

Sympathy. "Firefly"

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When other arrangements havo been made they do not satisfy her, and she thinks perhaps she can afford the original one after all.

To keep house for a modern young woman is like trying to cater for a person with three distinct per- to sonalities-and then suddenly discover that each of the three has boan multiplied by six!

Men, on the whole, are creatures

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`arrangements they stick to them even if they cannot afford it. In- doed, once they have formed a habit it is the most difficult thing in the world to get them to break it, even if it is against all the rules of the houso.

I think, on the whole, that men are more amiable and tolerant an lodgers than the majority of women but they are not always so prompt with the rent!

A Landlady

KEY FRENCH KENEDY,

ONINGS

GOING ON LEAVE

Don't hoard Moth Eggs, Grit and Crime In your Carpets, Rugs, Clothing, Drapes, Loose Covers, etc. You do if you permit them

to go into storage without cloan- ing.

Carpets and Rugs should be thoroughly Shampooed & Dried

Clothing, Drapes,

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Loose Covers should be "ZORIC" Drycleaned-in order to be sure that moth eggs, grime, grit, etc. are completely got rid of.

Take no chances, moth eggs in textiles remain fertile and soon become active when Clothing, Carpets and Rugs are put into use again.

Send them to the cleaners before storing.

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