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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1954)
Thursday, March 4, 1951 THE T! ATT ALTON Pago 11 wl m llifc « ,.. ' A i 8 ■ HI H *. ■ H BMHH ] WANT SOME ClIM—says Diana Garber, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Morris Garber. She’s wearing a yellow dotted organdy by “Johnston” with a black patent belt and a black velvet bow at the neck. Her hat is white starched lace with yellow and white daisies. Lester’s smart shop. Men Turn Heath For Spring Shapes A man’s fancy may turn to love in the spring, but he’ll turn his head twice any season of the year to look at a well-dressed woman. This spring his head may be in a constant whirl—if he doesn’t miss anything. Designers have conspired to offer two of the most feminine silhouettes this year—the empire and pi'incejss, with various interpretations of each. ail FIT FOR A PRINCESS — are these black patent slip pers by “Junior Cover Girl” trimmed with white lacing. The Bootery. Interchangeable coat s a n d dresses, jackets and dresses and three-piece suits, for afternoon or twilight hours, keep the fashion picture fresh and ever-changing. Fitted or straight coats in linens, taffetas and corded silks or shan tungs, go over printed dresses, or dresses for variety. Jackets over sleeveless sheath dresses to go to afternoon parties and later the dress, minus jacket, to the theatre or for other evening vyeai - . Jack ets are sometimes lined with the dress fabric and capelets are often attached to dresses. Suits feature a “choir-boy” look and may be had in soft French woolens in muted pastels. Blouses match and often have beaded trim ming. Jeweled accents are found on tailored suits. Favored fabrics, apart from wool, are silk and wool, raw silk, textured silk, silk and mohair as well as crisp rayon and cotton. Suits may be lined or unlined and spring color favorites are navy with mauve; light blue, luggage, and the ever-popular black. For country club wear or an aft ernoon at bridge, a gabardine skirt, Crepe blouse and wool cardi gan are co-ordinated in color. Full Skirts Shown At Italian Shows Almost all the new spring suits made by Italian designers have skirts flaring slightly at the hem. “Whether Paris agrees or not, the fuller skirt has arrived,” say the American buyers attending the fashion showing in Italy. Jackets for these suits are col larless, cut in a deep V or U in front. For daytime, the neckline is filled in with pleated, starched gilets of white linen or pique, many of them rising to the throat. The shoulders are always loose and unpadded and sleeves are cut in one piece with the bodice. But jackets are tight across the bosom and waist and are shorter, ending at the hipbone. All Italian designers agree on a smooth, unbroken line from the shoulder of the jacket to its hem. There are no pockets, and buttons are inconspicuous. Fly-fronts and plastron fronts, occasionally edged with braid or satin, are very popular for suit jackets. American buyers here are en thusiastic about the new Italian suit-dresses. They consist of a straight, very tight princess-style dress, cut without a seam at the waist and worn without a belt. With their matching, fitted jackets, they look like slim suits. Without the jackets, the dresses are sophisticated enough for cock tails. The cap sleeve on the dresses are very tiny, merely an extension of the shoulder line. Both the dresses and their ac companying jackets are collarless, but the neckline of the dress is often edged with white linen. Mixtures of silk and wool are the favorite fabric for these suit- dresses. The cloth combines the sheen and dressiness of silk, with the draping quality of wool. Homans like navy, black, steel- gray, or air force blue, with white touches, for spring suits. The coats shown with them ax-e bifl- liant cherry-red, or yellow. Another popular color combina tion is a bi-ight gi'ass-gx-een coat over a sand-colored suit, freshened with white. All the new Italian coats are straight and full length. Design ers Ferdinandi and Fontana put a bux-st of accordion pleats under the armpit. Children’s Wear Shown in Dallas Most outstanding on the chil- dren’s styles shown at the Dallas Press show was the collection of the Facho Camp Company, which originally made only little boys’ caps but now also manufactures gix-ls’ hats, bonnets, coats, jumpers and dx-esses. Facho believes in co-ordinated ensembles for the small fry, so that all the coats and most of the dresses were shown with matching hats and bags. One coat ensemble featured a navy faille coat with a pink collar trimmed with xhinestones. This motif was repeated on the sugar scoop hat. Another of these en sembles for tots was the mandarin coat, also in faille, with a coolie hat to match. (See CHILDREN’ WEAR, p. 13) READY FOR THE EASTER PARADE —are Jean and Ann Richardson, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Richardson. Jean wears a pink nylon party dress trimmed with fleck dots and ruffles. She wears a starched lace bonnet with matching bags and black patent shoes. Ann’s pink nylon dress has a hand embroidered collar with a pink velvet sash. Her hat and bag are toya cloth trimmed with flow ers. She wears white kid shoes with rhinestone trim. Penny’s. Brims, Small Crowns Shown in New Hats ILilh-AA WHICH HAT SHALL I WEAR? —says Lana Reed Mc Donald as she looks at a starched lace bonnet trimmed in brown faile. Her blue pima cotton dress is trimmed with brown and comes with its own ice blue nylon petticoat. She’s wearing a white starched lace bonnet with white flowers. Immies toy and tot shop. LOOKING CUTE—is Kathy Conway, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Conway, wearing sheer organdy over a glazed cotton print with red trim. She’s wearing white kid slippers and car rying a white organdy bag trimmed with flowers. Penny’s. Small dainty pillboxes, semi pillboxes and petite sailors xxow being displayed in shop windows femind US thal spi’ing is only a hat away. What do millinex-y expeids pi'e- dict for the coming season? Brims xxnd shallow ci’Owns. (All the bet ter to see your new coiffure, my deal’.) Expressing ladylike ehax*m are the current Watteau shapes. These fox-ward -posed, flower-trimmed hats vax-y from the tiniest fluff to the larger plateau type. Dec- orative wired grippers add to their eharrii as well as sex-ve the useful purpose of keeping them comfort ably in place. For those who ax-e partial to pi’ofiles, a great surprise is in store. A new look, characterized by shallow cx-owns, back of head pose, axxd deep-kipping draped sides, has been added for 19. r >4. Oval shapes with profile angles highlight brims smallei* o.n ones side and lax-ger on the othex-. Stunning impox-ted Italian milam or panamalac in vaxiguted blocks ox-namented with veils, flowex-s and i-ibbons keynote the new styles. Fur felts, pastel-shaded felts and satuni also ax-e good. Lush, high colox-s with monikers such as sunlit (Bee NEW SPRING HATS, p. 13) In any size . . . SUIT yourself for Spring! The charming suit or dress and jacket in a style that will go everywhere, cotton, shantung, silk, crepe, and many of the new wonder fabrics you have been hearing about. Priced from — $14.9. r » to $39.95 The Fashion Shojt Edna Beard 3806 Hwy. 6 S. Free Parking We Give Black Gold Savings Stamps Double Stamps Tuesday. OPEN TIL 9 P.M. TUESDAYS Lena Beard Fashion Show Each Tuesday MS C 12 to 1