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Fresh Fabrics, New Styles
Show Off Spring '52 Prints
Striking news in Spring fash
ion is the importance of prints
in a wider than ever diversifi-1
cation of styling and fabric.
Dresses and suits, of every
price range, are available in a
wide choice of individualized
prints that offer distinctive em
phasis to the full skirts and
soft, slope-shouldered bodices so
prediminantly featured for new
aeason fashions.
Look for "rustling" prints
when choosing Spring dresses or
suits. Silk or rayon surah, taffeta
ta, taffeta shantung and all kinds
of taffetized finishes are mag
nificently printed.
Whitewashed grounds are ex
citing news with black and white
according to The Silk and. Rayon
Print Institute, slated to be the
aeason's star. Frosted warp prints
are high fashion for cocktail or
evening dresses, and sequins
often outline prints in all-over
or spot sprinklings for glitter.
Stress Placed on
Greater Comfort
The stress is on greater com
fort, with lines that conform to
new princess, Empire style and
long torso effect fashions, in
foundations offered for Spring
election.
New high top girdles, with a
minimum of boning, are some
times built up as high as three
to four inches above the waist to
achieve a smooth, long torso
line. To prevent rolling, without
the use of boning, many makers
have created other safeguards,
such as bias cut elastic, doubled
panels and taped reinforcements,
While insets of power net and
leno elastic offer a maximum
mount of all-over control.
Corselets, too, are expected to
play an Important role beneath
new Spring Empire, princess and
long torso fashions. For this type
of foundation offers the one-
piece slimming most effective for
the new silhouettes. Often it is
designed In a strapless style suit
able for evening or daytime wear
with decollete necklines.
Also high' on the "preferred
list are surahs or twill printed
in tie motifs or in small abstrac
tions floating in white, black or
high colored grounds, organdies,
either nylon or silk, in floral pat
terns on mottled or white
grounds, textured designs, such
as herringbone, on surah or
shantung and black, abstractions
of all kinds, spacings and sizes
on white, champagne or pastel
backgrounds.
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Naw cotton suits ara practical
as thay ara pretty. This corded
and striped Spring-into-Summer
suit has a squared-off bolero and
full skirt, which may be worn
with or without a blouse. Of
Dan River's naw Wrinkl-Shad
washabla cotton.
New Styles
Have Accent
On Texture
Two Different
Faces Appear
The excitingly designed - and
textured fabrics that appear in
new Spring " coats, " suits and
dresses will make them irresisti
ble to own, whether the plan is
to sew a new outfit or select one
already made.
Two interesting and distinctly
different "faces" appear in these
fabrics; the icy-smooth crack
ling feel in new silks and taffeta
shantungs along with the sponge
like springy textured wools, both
in the smooth-surfaced group.
For contrast, there are ribbed,
slubbed and nubby effects. It's a
textured look that can be seen
in a wide variety of tweed-like,
linen-type cottons, sculptured
fleeces and wool and rayon
boucles.
Contrasts
In some new fabrics, striking
effects are achieved by combin
ing the smooth and the textured,
as in a light sheer wool with a
dark boucle check. - .
All new Spring fabrics have a
wonderful lightness of weight, no
matter how fluffed the texture.
This can be seen in a chiffon
weight wool coating, woven in a
loose weave with a nubby curled
wool, a pebble effect without ex
cess bulk and even wooly poodle
cloth that appears in a much
lighter version this season.
Oversized patterns, "blown up"
versions of basket weaves, home
spuns and herringbones, make
truly dramatic new-season fash
ions.
Combinations
Unusual textures combined
with practicality are the combi
nations of man-made Orion with
shantung, Dynel with acetate and
Viscose and rayon and spun ny
lon, shot through with gilt me
tallic yarn.
Spring coats are predicted to
be popular in deep textured,
nubbed tweeds or other loopy-
faced woolens. Suits, on the more
formal side, take to baratheas
and worsteds, emphasizing
grainy surfaces and a crisp dry
face. This characteristic is also
present in dress fabrics, as for
example the linen-like silks and
slubbed worsteds.
FASHION ON TOP
Look to shoulders and sleeves
for outstanding Spring fashion
interest. Shoulders remain nat
ural, but look wider with the
puffiness of low placed sleeves
Armholes are deeper with strict
modelling below. Sleeve interest
can be found in most dresses
with last season's full length
lantern and balloon style dimin
ished to powder puff and mush
room forms, with the flare
around the elbow only.
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designed to take household du
ties Aid shopping expeditions in
fashionable stride. This dress, for
nrnnlt. has a natural shoulder-
lino, deep undersleeve and one-
button closing. Ox embroidery
designed woven chambray. Honey-Brunch
by Nali-Bee.
Hemline Width
Guided by Waist
The width of the waistline
should guide the width of the
hemline, claims one famous fash
ion designer.
The exaggerated full skirt
tends to give too much width to
a silhouette with a not-so-narrow
waistline and broad shoulders,
says this designer. However, if
the -waist is slim but high and
the shoulders narrow, a full skirt
with a slender hipline, a skirt
with a yoke or pleated sections
across the hips should be select
ed, for most, flattering effects,
she suggests.
POSE A POSH :
. Add a fresh touch of Spring to
every ensemble with flowers,
pretty as real, posed in the eye
catching spots, such as a tiny
bouquet at the nipped waist of
a full-skirted dress; a flower
cluster attached to the ends of a
velvet choker; or matching little
buds, one on one glove and the
other at the suit, coat or dress
neckline.
Tricky Boleros.
Feature Formals
- A romantic, truly feminine sil
houette will brighten Spring eve
ning festivities. Sleeves puff out
unexpectedly, torsos are molded,
and skirts shower out from fitted
hiplines, some resplendent with
lacy redingotes.
The "covered-up" trend is ap
parent, this Spring, with' tricky
boleros that melt into the bodice,
then whisk off for dancing, and
higher necklines designed espe
cially to show off sleeves. Cape
let sleeves sometimes appear
with tiny accordion pleats for a
"floating" effect. Others, huge
and dramatic, resemble lanterns.
Complementing sleeve full
ness, are lines that are molded
and trimly shaped to figure con
tours. Skirt fullness is lowered
to flatter the hipline and make
the waistline less of a focal point.
GLAMOUR BEAT
Perfume should be applied to
the "pulse spots" such as inside
wrists, inside crook of arms, at
the temples, at the side of the
neck, even behind the knees.
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At-home fashions play a double
role this season, for along with
radio parties and patio entertain
ing, thay can also go visiting in
style. Above, a checked gingham
skirt topped by a terry shirt belt-
ad in patent leather. By Brig-
anca of Tula for John Robert
Powers Fashions.
Lighter Hosiery
Tones Featured
Hosiery, in lighter tones, will
flash on sunlit legs this Spring,
peeping through open heels, toes
and mesh insets so popular in
new season shoes that are more
opened than closed.
Whether seamed or seamless,
mesh or not, hosiery Is tinted to
heighten, brighten and blend
with new Spring fashion shades.
Prominent among these hose
hues is natural blond, a beauti
ful blending with neutral and
parchment Spring tones. Stock
ings in hazy taupe tints accent
the blue and purple tones. While
clear beige is good company with
shades from golden sand to rich
brown and black. A burnished
cast with a golden glow is slated
to be the most inten-re of these
new colors.
Embroidery and flocking on
many of this season's shoes mi
be echoed on hosiery.
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High Style
Stays Home
Glamour Seen
For Homemaker
Glamour has invaded the home
in new Spring homemaker frocks
that sing with imaginative fab
ric, color and style excitement,
so that, this season, the lady of
the house need never feel im
properly dressed when unexpect
ed callers interrupt her Spring
cleaning.
The "textured" look, so impor
tant in dress and coat fabrics,
now appears in the at - home
dress, giving these utility frocks
a high fashion look. Surface in
terest is achieved with clipped
raised patterns and "tapestry"
plaids that look and feel like ex
pensive hand-embroidery. Strip
ing also achieves the dimension
al look, appearing sometimes in
a satiny face in narrow and wide
widths.
A whole artist's palette of col
or tints these new fabrics in vi
brant jewel tones, exotic subtle
hues, unusual combinations of
tone on tone, and gleaming me
tallic gold against color. Luscious
amethyst, tangy tangerine, soft
jade green and many other
shades do much to beautify the
Spring indoor frock.
These fabrics and shadings are
combined in styles that have
swirling skirts, dropped shoul
ders and smart mandarin or roll
collars. Some of the classic coat
and zip front styles have taken
on free action gussets, placed to
give maximum comfort to the
busy homemaker in her many
daily activities.
EASY TEND APRONS
New aprons, with the look and
feel of satin or other fabric, are
made of plastic that can be
wiped clean with a damp cloth.
Especially designed for kitchen
wear while entertaining at home,
the new apron styles range from
permanently-pleated half aprons
to invisibly boned bib aprons. ,
FASHION U.N.
Learn a lesson in geography
from' new fabrics presented for
Spring. There are French wools,
Italian silks, Greek and Egyp
tian cotton, Madagascar straw
cloth, Indian gauze, American
silks, denim and cotton, Irish
linen and Swiss organdies.
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Golf dresses, offered for Spring
'52, ara trimly tailored for good
looking wear, off. as well as on
the greens. Hare, her dress Is
buttoned to tha waist, has a
notched collar, fly front skirt
and two large side pockets. Of
cotton broadcloth. It's a Lampl
Par-Golfer.
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A. POWLOWSKf
Rt. 1, Bex 8, Jacksonville
aenJ'Vill 570 Highway 238
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Hearts and Darts
Cupid aims his darts at this sweetheart
suit of fine wool gabardine. Vertical dart
encircle the tiny doll-waisted jacket . . .
give the bodice a soft fullness. Wide,
winged sleeves taper to turned-back cuffs.
Short jacket . . . plus widening skirt . . .
equals the prettiest silhouette of the season.
$49
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Royal Miss
Youthcraft carves fine worsted gab
ardine into a full-length coat of
princess lines. Full sleeves are gath
ered into contrasting cuffs that have
triple personalities . . . can be worn
up, down, or halfway. Jewel-accented
lapels for a queenly junior. Seven
self -cove red buttons match and con
trast. Wonderful color combinations
$5Q00
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