Potpourri
August brought the Shakes
pearean festival, a nip to the
night air, color to the berries on
the ash tree And the pyracantha
bushes and the news that the
Paris fall fashion reviews
showed hems as low as 10 inches
from the floor.
This time, we said grimly, we
won't change the hemlines in
our clothes. We postively and
absolutely and utterly won't.
Then we began to think how odd
it would be to walk into a room
filled with women and be the
only one wearing a short dress.
So the next time we saw Mil
dred McCarty down at Mann's
store we anxiously asked her if
she thought American women
would go along with this trend
and wondered if it meant throw
ing away clothes which couldn't
be altered. "How would you like
to work around the Tribune, get
in and out of cars and in and
out of busses with skirts almost
to your ankles?" inquired Mrs.
McC. "No, I don t think Amer
ican women are going to be in
fluenced by Paris fashions this
time."
Then she offered to write to
a fashion buyer for information
and the answer came back
quickly: "There are mixed re
actions among leading designers
but the over all opinions are
that skirt lengths won't really
change for some time to come:
if and when it happens, it will
be a gradual change."
Thus wrote Dorothy Caplan,
Los Angeles buyer who keeps in
touch with clothing trends
around the nation and the world.
"High fashion never becomes
an over night fad," Miss Caplan
wrote. "It starts a' trend that is
carefully tried and tested in
very high-priced clothes; often
that trend is very slow in taking
hold by the public, and it is
dropped fast.
"It is part of the creed of
Paris couturier showings to
make headlines," she added,
"especially in America. This
time it was skirt lengths and a
definite revival of 1912 fashions
It is important to point out that
Dior and the others showed just
a very few longer dresses; it
was a fashion note far in the
minority. What almost all of
the couturier houses showed
were lots of dresses with jackets
and capes. I think capes are
coming in strong this spring.
Perhaps for Fall or Spring our
American designers will drop
hems from one to three inches,
but that will have to be every
thing not just dresses.
"I do see slightly longer
cocktail dresses and floor-length
formals coming in. If anybody
drops hem lines to the ankle this
season (holiday) it will be in
cocktail dresses only.
"I feel so strongly tjiat our
American women have never
had such becoming and flatter
ing styles that I don't want any
drastic changes other than in
new details, new lines, new cuts,
etc., and leave skirt lengths
where they are.
...
Paris or no Paris, the women
who attended the Presbyterian
tea at the Edwin R. Durno home
last Tuesday wore some very
smart and interesting clothes
Mrs. Durno, wore a pretty print
frock with pink roses on it, and
one of the women who poured,
Mrs. G. T. Haupert, looked smart
in a white sheath dress with a
white tambourine hat. Pot
pourri was intrigued with Mrs.
Kenneth Cook's black and white
ensemble. With her black sheath
dress she wore black and white
shoes one shoe had a black
heel while the other was white,
It was hard to believe that
Mrs. Durno could manage so
large a social event and then
move the next day, but such
was the case. The Durnos have
sold the house on Valley View
drive to Hauperts, and are now
settling into a new home at 2512
East Main street. Parties don't
seem to bother the Durnos, for
Tuesday Kaye Durno and Tanya
Trowbridge are giving a bridal
shower for Ann Hart at the
Durno's new home
...
Potpourri saw another interest
ing black and white dress last
week. It was a beautiful cotton
print worn by Mrs. Use Meyer,
charming visitor from Copen
hagen who was attending the
Shakespearean festival plays.
Mrs. Meyer said she bought the
frock in Sweden. Mrs. Meyer is
doing most of her traveling by
bus likes that mode of travel
except for the poor food served
at most bus stations.
Since she is a musician spread
ing the news of a proposed con
vention of the International So
ciety for Music Education in
Copehagen in 1958, we talked
music and eventually mentioned
Liberace. Mrs. Meyer had never
heard of him. But when she
mentioned the Scandinavian mus
ician Victor Borge, everyone at
the table said "oh yes!" in most
enthusiastic tones.
Those femmes interested in
high fashion should read the long
articles with the Paris dateline in
today's section. It says the "ro
mantic look" of 1912 is back with
us, that capes are all the rage,
furs are used to trim many garm
ents and that the "Russian bal
let" influence is important.
Evening clothes are the most
"undressed" in years, says the
writer in Paris, and there's hard
ly a strap left in Paris. Pink is
the new color for lipstick, and
women will use beauty patches
again. Hair ornaments are a new
fad, said an earlier dispatch,
which reminded us that when we
tried to buy a set in a big depart
ment store in Portland, they had
just one and that not very pret
ty. Maybe we'll just put sequins
on a couple of our big reporter's
pencils. Then we could just yank
one out and start takmg notes.
Don Loper, whose Hollywood
dress shop is partonized by many
women with fat clothing budgets,
takes a dim view of Paris and in
a recent column referred to the
"botches" which come out of the
European courturier salons. Chic
women all over the world, said
Mr. Loper positively, "are com
pletely disregarding the so-called
fashion pace setters abroad" and
say the Hollywood stars don't
give them a second look: "I think
the new French and Italian styles
are dreadful," he wrote. "I don't
know what they're trying to
prove with those jazzed up, over
junked numbers, with nothing
where it's supposed to be, so that
the wearer comes out looking
like a freak."
He ended up by saying that
Irene Dunne and "racie Allen
will be Hollywood fashion lead
ers with their "dateless" gowns
and that Tallulah will dress only
for the stage and "wear her us
ual blouse and slacks, low shoes
and mink coat for everything
else."
Our end-of-the-colmun story
comes from United Press.
Designer Adele Simpson of
New York tells this story on her
self, following a tour of the
South. Mrs. Simpson said that af
ter a fashion show at one store,
she was surrounded by women
seeking clothes, advice. One of
them was a sprightly lady who
edged up to her and said, "My
deah, I'm 82 years old but pretty
clothes still fascinate me. What
sort of silhouette do you think
would be most becoming to me
next season?"
Mrs. Simpson, warming to the
assignment, described her idea of
the riglit suit and then started to
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tell what she thought the little
old lady should wear for after
five.
"Sugah," the little woman in
terrupted, "at my age, after five
all you need is a night-gown."
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SUMMER SALAD
A sectioned orange and a diced
California avocado along with
a little pimientograted orange
rind and lemon rind make a re
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flavored gelatin. Use the juice
of a lemon for part of the liquid.
Chipped beef heated in a sour
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olives and canned artichoke
Use your favorite white table
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TOASTERSCOLORED
Chicago (U.R) Housewives
soon will make the morning
toast in brightly colored toasters.
One appliance manufacturer
(Westinghouse) announced i t
soon will market toasters in five
confection colors in addition to
the conventional polished chrome
type. The five are lemon yellow,
frosting pink, mint aqua, nougat
gray and sugar white. They wiH j
all be finished in porcelain I
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Stuffed Peppers
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