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THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 4, 1954
LOOK AT MY POCKETBOOK!—S ays Robbin Fitch while her sister Cynthia looks on.
They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. David Fitch. Robbin wears a pink organdy
dress trimmed with white lace and hand faggoting. She wears a pink starched or
gandy hat trimmed in white flowers and carries a matching bag. Cynthia’s orchid
polished cotton dress has its own organdy pinafore. She wears a white dotted nylon
hat trimmed with tiny spring flowers and lace and carries a matching bag. Teen-Tot
shop.
Silk Used for Many Outfits
LOOKING PRETTY — is
Ann Elliot, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Elliot
in a washable linen and
rayon by “La Crosse.” The
white dress has a navy and
yellow bolero, and a waist
cincher belt. The hat is
w h i t e pique Lester’s
smart shop.
Tokyo.—Japan has a new export
item—judo costumes.
The growing popularity of the
sport overseas has brought pros
perity here to dozens of small fac
tories turning out judo outfits.
Biggest markets are the United
States and Latin America.
Spring is such a short season,
says a high-fashioned expert, that
a practical woman will buy a linen
or silk suit instead of the classic
wool.
The expert is Paul Parnes, long
a maker of fashionable suits and
dresses.
The Paines collection, which us
ually features a few suits and j
many dresses, capitalizes on the
lightweight cottort, linen or silk
suit this year.
They are not standard classics in
design. “It will be a soft as well
as a short spring,” said Parnes,
and he shows little above-the-
waistline jackets, puffy sleeves and
flaring skirts to prove his conten
tion.
Sleeves are all important fash-
iomvisc. There are many varie
ties of button-on sleeves — little
lace models that button in place
for extra fluffiness, puff sleeves
of polka-dot prints to be attached
PLAYING WITH A BALL — arc Lana Reed McDonald
and Marilyn Criswell. Lana wears a two-piece red and
white candy-striped cotton (it also comes with matching
shorts) play outfit. She wears bright multicolored Sand
ies. Marilyn’s white shorts are worn with a bright shirt
tied with white rope at the sholders. She wears red Sand
ies. Immies toy and tot shop.
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Name of Spring Suits
Suits for the 1954 spring par
ade bear no resemblance to the
classic spring suits of pi'evious
years.
The new models, in fact, are
suits in name only.
In most cases they look more
like dresses.
The “new look” in suits, one
need only drop over to fashionable
Fifth Avenue where the stores are
already turning over their windows
to the dressiest two-piece spring
costumes in years.
Suits Are Dress and Jacket
The most-oft-seen style is the
suit which is not skirt and jacket
but is dress and jacket instead.
This might be called the “short,
short suit”—because the jackets
are about as protective as half a
sweater.
These models, usually done in
lightweight wool but sometimes
seen also in silk combinations, are
based on the “empire” silhouette;
narrow at the shoulder, high at the
bust, unbelted at the waist and
barely walkable around the hem.
The jackets (over dresses in the
above-described shape) are j u s t
long enough to cover the bustiines.
Generally a floppy bow or a high
stiff collar peeks out from the
neckline of the dress.
‘Suits’ Arc Feminine
There are other suits that look
almost as much like frocks as the
molded short-shorts. These are
the “curved tunic-type” suits.
They have slender skirts and
jackets are lady-like as Godey’s
books. The jackets have high,
petite collars, long lantern-shaped
sleeves that clutch the arm between
elbow and wrist.
They fit smooth and tig lit over
the diaphragm but are rippled up
in unpressed pleats or tucks over
the bustline. And below the nar-
rowbelted waistlines they bell out
in peplums that extend anywhere
from hipbone to thigh length.
The full-skirted suit is coming
back with an elegant sweep, as
evidenced in the shiny Fifth Ave
nue shop windows.
These have skirts that are gen
erally either box-pleated or ac
cordion-pleated from waist to
hemline, and jackets that extend
^ust to hipbone length.
Necklines Are Simple
Because there is so much focal
interest in the skirts, their neck
lines are generally simple—often
uncollared with just a dipping V
that is filled in with an Ascot scarf
or with pearls.
The box-jacket suit is occasion
ally seen, but it is not the huge
fashion favorite it has been for
two seasons. And it is generally
done with a softening feminine
touch.
Instead of being tailored like a
small boy’s coat, it now has a neck
line that stands away from the
throat and is often given a wide,
draped collar that almost presents
the illusion of a shawl around the
top.
FOR TODDLERS—is this
“Young’land” red figured
cotton with a white organdy
pinafore worn by Mary
Schmid, daughter of Mrs.
Allene Schmid. She wears
a starched lace hat • with
red velvet trim.
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ORGANDY FOR EASTER—is the choice of Barbara Jobe,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jobe, shown here in a strip
ed organdy by “Helen Finton.” She carries a white linen
clutch dotted with rhinestones. Her hat of white sisal
straw is trimmed with blue velvet. The dress holds its
fullness with a tiered nylon taffeta petticoat. Lesters
smart shop. The white kid shoes are trimmed with tiny
pearl buttons. The Bootery.
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tiniest edging of navy silk
braid. Lovely and soft for
early spring wear.
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Matching Navy Straw Hat
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Chalk white jewelry also
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Expect admiring glances when
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Cotton Party Dress (left)
The unusual one - sleeved
drapes casually over t h e
arm. The neckline is accen
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lace.
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is how' we would describe
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with touches of white linen.
The smooth princess lines
add smartness to every fig
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Hat “Modern Miss” . . .
covered with white spring'
spring flowers.
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