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Accessories for Sprang (Provide EDetaoied and Decorative Costume Contrast
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Elegant Detail,
Cushioned Edges
Contained in Hats
Effective new hats look subtly
larger with a suggestion of bulk
and greater importance. Little
hats take cushioned edges, built
in fit and elegant detail.
Importantly shaped little hats
Include the chignon hat with a
pouf of straw or fabric to ex
tend the silhouette. Some have
horseshoe openings, framed
with ribbon or flowers, to show
up back curls or a chignon coif
ure. Others are worn far back
on the head and secured by dec
orative devices while their op
posites are perched far front,
looking backwards with cut
away backs or small brims that
turn up in back.
Deep cloche hats have a new
look of bulk and importance,
yet are kept from disarranging
the hair by their shallow
crowns and deep brims. Off-face
cloches fit well down at the
back of a smoother, longer bob.
Early Entrance of Large Brims
Large-brimmed hats appear
earlier than usual, probably be
cause they make such excellent
complements for long - jacket
suits. Trimmed simply, the
large hat takes drama in the
use of a single gigantic flower,
a huge jeweled buckle or a
striking bow.
New straws and synthetics are
beautifully decorative. Molded
into sleek shapes that blend with
costume lines, they need or trim
ming. Checkerboard straws com
bine smooth and textured
strands, pale straws are woven
with inky velvet and satinized
straws take sombre shading for
intriguing texture.
Designers weave white braid
between colors, stripe cello
phane plush in rainbow colors,
loop sheer colored braids, in
terweave straws with tiny beads
all indicating a spring millin
ery trend to delicate detailing.
Flower Look Real
Velvet and silk roses sparkle
with crystal dewdrops. Shaded
pastel roses quiver on rubber,
stems, with life-like ladybugs
and bees whimsically posed on
petal or leaf. The effect is a real
look for flowers of all sizes
from tightly furled buds to full
blown cabbage roses.
Feathers are ' newly mated
with flowers. Some straw hats
re dotted with tiny feather
wisps and sparkling stones.
Sheer veiling and lace add deli
cate patterning to. crowns or
brims. Matte jersey, chiffon and
organdie are shirred, pleated or
draped for accent.
Even modestly-priced bonnets
frequently achieve an amazing
wealth of detail with a hand
made look. And so appropriate
it is with such understated trim
mings as suits, dresses and coats
are featuring.
Technicolor Trimmings, Too
While there are navy and
black hats a-plenty, most are
color-trimmed. Golden honey
tones from creamy white to deep
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SPRING HATS A belled cloche of woven straw, shown at
left, gives a light contrast. It is by Mr. John. Shown at right,
sheer white organdy makes a demure half-bonnet with em
broidered flowers for an airy effect. It is designed by Beatrice
Martin.
New Foundations Favor
Eased Waist and Flat Hip
The Alliance of foundation
garments with ready-to-wear has
never been so apparent as in the
lines for spring.
There are brassieres and gir
dles to shape the "gentle look"
with its high, round bust, eased
waist and flat hip. There are
other foundations to pull in the
waist,- giving the bosom accent
and letting the hips curve. The
foundation now conforms pre
cisely to the preferred sil
houette. Since necklines are wide and
shallow, rather than deep this
season,, many brassieres have
off-the-shoulder or w i d e-set
straps. Brassieres with straps
often have wiring under the
cups or crossed band to raise
and round the bosom.
Extended Strapless
The strapless bra, too. is im
portant. Some styles offer cups
pre-shaped by foam rubber lin
ing or non-woven interfacing for
firm uplift. '
The strapless vogue extends
into garments with longer con
trol the bra-lette fitting to the
hipline and the corselet, which
extends to the thighs. Both types
feature rounded cups, some lift
ing, the bust up to two inches
with wiring or princesse-styling.
Even though the waist is
eased in new fashions, it must
still be defined. The bra-lette,
the corselet and the high-top
girdle achieve proper waist con-
"burnt" straw shades harmonize
with every costume color. Lusci
ous bonbon pastels range from
sunny Lemon Drop to Candied
Lime and Raspberry Frappe.
Far East influence is mirrored
in brilliant jewel tones, for ex
ample: Siam Sapphire, Arabian
Ruby and Kashmir Emerald.
Particularly important blues are
hyacinths and lavendar-tinged
violet. Turquoise and Midnight
Blue rate high for evening.
Bright sun-splashed colors
orange, coral and flame are sig
nificant as body and trimming
both. Taupe-tinted grays and
chalky white look new and
wonderful in the millinery de
signs of spring 1955.
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BRIDE
A Delight To Be
A Delight To See
Select your precious bridal gown from
our wide selection and be doubly '
lure or having this big moment as per
feet as your 'heart's desire. Have Burel
son's bridal department take care of
your entire party, including your brides
maid's dresses, and that all important,
trousseau, from your bridal lingerie to
your going-away outfit.
trol. The one-piece foundation,
allowing no break in the figure,
emphasizes the long-lorso look
of the sheath or the overblouse.
Hip Flattery
New girdles straighten the
hipline with all-elastic con
struction or by calculated com
binations of elastic and sheer
rigid fabrics. Waistlin girdles
are more prevalent, to be worn
with short or long line brassiere,
depending on the need for dia
phragm control.
Firm control is achieved with
light-weight fabrics, new meth
ods of banding and seam con
struction. Girdles are losing
their bulky look.
This season's foundations ap
pear in such dainty fabrics as
marquisette, power net and
embroidered cotton. Emboss
ment and embroidery in a sec
ond color adds prettiness. White
is the favored foundation color,
but there are many girdles,
biassiers and corselets in black
and some in soft pastels.
Extreme Shorty Glove
Stays in First Place
Designs among new gloves
show both imaginative styling
and classic practicality. The
extreme shortie glove, so youth
fully gay in feeling, continues to
hold first place because of its
versatility. Leather Glove Indus
tries report a trend to high
color.
However, new finesse in trim
ming and details, provides much
fashion excitement. Shells, but
tons, colored beads, self-embroidery
are sefn more often and are
more ' beautifully handled this
spring.
Shorties in glace kid, pigskin
or cape leathers, or cotton fab
ric are trimmed with dress mak
er piping on leather gloves is a
charming new touch. Another
group features decorative motifs
in tiny leather-covered buttons
at the side or a single line of
rice pearls sewn at the hem.
LOVELY
Low Torso Rates
High in Teen-Age
Fashion Design
The fashion news this season
is the elongated torso and teen
apparel is making the most of it.
The lowered waistline, releas
ing full or pleated skirts, is here
in dresses, suits and coats; and
has even turned up in sweaters
and knit overblouses. Many
long-waisted styles have a nau
tical look, with great middy col
lars. Teen dresses have broken into
print in witty new ways, with
etched prints, architectural out
lines and harlequin triangles
leading the field. Many fashions
have bow necklines.
Printed Ensembles
Also printed are the popular
ensembles, consisting of a skirt,
jacket and blouse or a one-piece
dress- plus a jacket.
Following Dior's French influ
ence, teen suits feature the long
torso, and slim skirt. Another
favored line is the box jacket
suit over a pleated skirt.
Coats, too, are slim, many with
button front detail. Boy coats
are seen frequently, many in the
season's favored pink tweeds.
Other coats play up pocket de
tail and plus fabrics.
More Washable Fabrics '
The fabric news for teens is
washability. And particularly
new this spring are the 100
nylon tweeds that wash almost
as easily as a pair of stockings.
Washable linens, high shade
poplins, a combed cotton that
looks like rayon faille, and folk
spun, which is a nubby cotton,
are important in sportswear.
Much sportswear, particular
ly "crazy pants" are going con
tinental. "Bagdad buckles"' on
teens' pants permit adjustability
of length and tightness around
the thigh, calf or ankle. Sleeve
less shirts have a narrow stand
up band to be worn high on the
collarbone or wide open.
Navy is a leader in the color
parade, vying with pastels for
the front running position.
Among the pastel shades, helio
trope, lilac, baby blue and baby
pink are important. Pastel plaids
are dominating the sportswear
picture. .
Neckwear Features
Color and Contrast
The accent is on color and
contrast in t this spring's neck
wear picture. To offset the dark
tones of men's business suits,
ties will present such striking
color combinations as black and
gray with helio, yellow, pink
and new tones of blue and green,
expressed in stripes ranging
from narrow to wide, spaced fig
ures, under-the-knot and em
broidered motifs.
Shapes continue on narrow
side, with the new square-end
model coming up strong in the
four-in-hand group. Featured
fabrics will include repps, gren
adines, foulards, twill weaves
and cords.
Burelson's congratulate the future brides and thank
those whom they have had the privilege of assisting
in the past.
Light-Weight Fabrics
In Long Jacket Suits
Longer jackets and practical
ly weightless fabrics bring fash
ion focus to the suit world this
season. Big changes in shape and
material plus important small
changes in detail give you
spring's suit story a long-needed
revision.
Jacket news is probably most
significant, since this is the
main attraction of the suit sil
houette. The 25-inch length is
wearable and with gentle shap
ing acknowledges, without em
phasizing, the female figure.
Tailored and natural, the longer
jacket usually buttons all the
way down and sometimes takes
a belt. The long torso look is
generally established. '
Colored Shoes
Feature Parade
Decorative cut, color and trim
ming make the shoes of spring
the prettiest in many a season.
The line is slender, but less exag
gerated; heels, generally, are
somewhat lower; materials are
soft and supple and the colors
are amazing.
Colored leathers have expand
ed their vistas in all directions.
According to the Leather Indus
tries of America, the most pop
ular new shades are a bright
cornflower blue that twill usurp
the place of spring navy in many
a woman's heart, and red, from
the flame and scarlet tones to
blue reds such as mauve and
lavendar.
Oriental yellow is spicy with
mustard undertones.
Tropical Leathers
All colors are available in
tropical lightweight leathers as
well as new aniline-dyed suede,
pig, shag and crushed calf.
Matte finished patent leathers
are new and exciting, providing
for the first time a soft luster
rather than a high shine.
Heel treatment takes a spot
light in 1955. There are. three
dimensional, hand-painted squar
ed and sequined heels. There are
new, graceful medium heels that
conform to fashion's "gentle
look."
Vamp detailing is varied and
distinctive: interesting hand-cut
buckles, jeweled insets or en
crustments, sparkle, stitching
and banding bring attention to
a gracefully cut shoe.
Finesse of Detail
Combinations of color and
texture contribute to detail fin
esse. The popular spectator shoe,
for instance, appears in a host
of new leather combinations.
Pinked collars and tips, French
seams show the new interest in
fine workmanship.
As shoes enter their "open
season," a closed heel and toe
combination with a wide-open
instep makes a significant
change. However, the closed toe
and open back style is increas
ingly popular.
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Loose box jackets remain
popular, . the newest with some
shaping at the waist. Some of
the longer jackets are subtly
! bloused to a smooth hipline band
with buckle closing.
Pleated Skirts Back
Skirts share the spotlight,
with pleated varieties slim and
easy-going. Spring suits show
skirts that are alLaround knife
pleated, interestingly box pleat
ed, cluster-pleated or panel
pleated. Inverted pleats aid the
slim look and many sheath skirts
break into pleats just above the
knee.
There is no ' shortage of
straight skirts, however; they
cpntributc to the long, lean look
and are most effective in crisp,
tissue-light woolens. Some are
trumpeted above the knee for
a high fashion effect; others are
gracefully pleated close to the
hem for walking ease. Gored
skirts offer easy slenderness and
are seen in casual or spectator
suit styles. ,
Subtle Details
Further changes ;that typify
the spring suit include .the nar
row sleeve, now set in high un
der the arms and often tapered
to the wrist. Sport suits -often
feature a shirtwaist sleeve,
slightly ballooned and French
cuffed. Smart cufflinks some
times become part of the pack
age and are usually the only
ornament on the suit.
Buttons have exchangedt their
former glitter for a new crafted
look. Leather, wood and self-or-contrast-fabric
buttons shoW'Up
on all categories of spring suits.
Jewel trims have largely given
way to such subtle detailing as
braid, self-scrolling, over-collars
and cut-out designs.
Collars and necklines show
pretty spring changes, too. In the
tailored suit, long narrow revers
plus low placed pockets add to
the lean silhouette. In sports
suits, designers have used the
turn-down collar, the loose tab
collar and the cardigan neck
line in casual variations. Many
designers have made novel col
lar treatments their signature
for the season; one uses a petal
effect, another a "clergy" col
lar. Generally, open necklines
and flat, generous collars are
shown some with pretty touch
es of lace, linen or organdy.
It's definitely a tweed spring
for suits light, breezy, beau
tiful tweeds are often wool-silk
or wool-linen blends. But there
is ample choice of others.
FOR SPRING
For one touch of luxury, Joselli selects
a fabric blend of 10 cashmere,
90 fine wool! This three-piece suit
has a softly tailored jacket with dec
orative in-a-seam pockets, tab'n'but
ton cuff trim. Smart rayon blouse
matches jacket lining. Slim skirt has
trim self belt. A wonderful buy at
this price. Beige tweed with beige
blouse, Pink tweed with pink blouse.
Aqua tweed with aqua blouse, grey
tweed with gold blouse.
Sizes
7- 15
8- 16
Bareback Fashions
A multitude of tiny straps ta
flatter the foot with your new,
tires, er suit.
Cover-Up Essential For
Small cover - ups shrugs,
boleros, pop-tops and miniature
jackets are too big to be over
looked this spring.
Tailored, casual or dress-up
the cover-up" is essential for
spring's uncertain temperature
and summer's air-conditioning.
Some of the prettiest in wool
or cotton knit provide 'round
the clock chic.
One new style is "shoulder
arms" a boldly striped knit
that looks like a tube because
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New shrugs in wool chenille
are curved and cutaway like
boleros. Collarless or daintily
fashioned with mandarin or a
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