Evening star., 1925-06-21
fashions of Spring Which Have Persisted Into Summer Season
By MARY MARSHALL.

~ 1T of the melange of fash
ions that were offered for our
inspection BY Inventive dress
~ makers and miinners last
Spring some were bound to
persist. And there were some OF the
novelties for which even their in
ventors did not expect survival. They
were merely thrown in for the sake
of the variety they would lend to the
general scene OF fashion. But though
there are always some of the digres-
sions of fashion on which you can put
your carefully manicured forefinger
and say This will not survive six
weeks" it is practically impossible,
without CHANGING mistake. to point to
certain other novelties and say These
will persist" For apparently with
fashion it is not always the survival
of the fittest. or II II is. then 1t Is i'm
mensely difficult 10 say just what fit
ness consists of in fashion.
Now it is quite safe to make re-
sumo of the Springs fashions. You
need not say this style of coat will
survive. or this shape of hat will be
smart this Summer, or frocks Of this
sort are sure to have a vogue, but
These hats and froCkS and wraps
have persisted, and having survived
the mobile days Of Spring, will persist
throughout Summer"
To the makers and designers of
women's clothes there is perhaps no
period for breath-takinG. To them
fashion seems to flow as necessarily
along as the Hudson or the Seine.
But for the women whose interest in
clothes is that they simply wear them
there surely are interludes when their
clothes, if well chosen seem to remain
in style
This season is such an interlude.
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js well established fact for the Sum-
mer. This usually means a fairly long
waist with almost all the trimming re-
served for the abbreviated skirt. I'm
less otherwise specified. one takes ii
for granted nowadays that the eve
ming frock is of chiffon. Flowers,
feathers and lace form the trimming.
GeorSette and chiffon ensembles
that women are wearing for the street
have proved to he far more serviceab BILE
and really dura BILE than at first seem
ed possible These are made with a
quite tailored simplicity for morning.
The very lightness of weight of the
material, its very fragility. seems to
give II a sort of resistance to go
through the requirements of warm
Summer day better than garments of
heavier, more substantial material.
WHEN the season began. we are
told. numerous women. old and
Young. who couldn't afford or didn't
want to afford new coat for this
Spring and Summer resurrected last
years coat and. having measured il
round the hem. bought sufficient
length of fur border and fastened this
on as best they could for the sake OF
new fashion. These Embroidered
coats. though YOU still see them. do
not seem to have persisted very well.
At any rate, women of exceptionally
good taste are not buying them so
eagerly as they were, and l have
known OF women who have sent their
fur rbordered coats to the tailor lately
to have the fur removed. That is
sometimes the fate of a fashion that
wakes too popular at the outset.
There seems to be a strong disposi
ton now to leave the making of
coat entirely to the tailor. ignoring
the furrier entirely. At any rate you
NAV have observed in any group of
we'll dressed women how many of the
coats and wraps are entirely furlesS.
This is something. however, that real
~ does not hurt the furriers' feelings
in the least. In fact there is far wider
opportunity to sell women really good
quality fur pieces when they wear
coats that are not already adorned
with some sort or other of peltry.
The small fur neckpiece of really
good quality has come firmly back into
its own. Women would consent to
wear peltry around the hem Of their
coat that they would have blushed
TO wear under their ears and chin.
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VELVET and kindred fabrics have
taken place in the Summer
modes The large straw hat when it
is not trimmed With flowers is draped
with velvet or trimmed with velvet
ornament. Don't forget velvet in con-
sidering Midsummer millinery. Then
there are the little short, straight
coats of velvet or velveteen that are
as vet not usual enough to repel the
woman who seeks the unusual. For
smart little sport frock short
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