New Britain herald., 1929-05-06
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF FASHION

New York. May s.-variety being the spicy thing it is alleged to be, one might venture to remark that spring styles are seasoned to the Queens taste!
 For there's more variety to any single type of costume than one can mention. A mere stroll down Park avenue. without even shopping along Madison or the late Sos or lunch ing at Pierre's or Aarguery's. preves this.
 In . single day saw . dozen diff ferent versions of the tweed street costume. Also fully as many ideas of what's what in footwear with tweed. No two hats are the same. Purses are aa individual as the wo- men who carry them.
 Elinor Barry has | one-sided cape frock in beige tweed that is the last word in smartness. It is q dag onal lined tweed. in very soft fabric, and its beige background Is fleckei in darker tones. The skirt is pleated all around, the jumper is beited and from one shoulder a circular cape swings. She wears brown antelope pumps tipped and saddled in calf skin.
 A Rhapsody in Brown
 Mrs. Sherburn M. Becker. IT,, has sodets in the skirt of her tan tweed suit and wears a brown scarf knotted in muffler style under her chin. Her purse and shoes are brown lizard, and her three eyelet oxfords, with high heel.
 Genevieve Ciendenin's brown tweed suit is flecked with red and she sponsors the new style of wear ing q bright tuck-in blouse. one of red.
 The polka dot still retains its chic with the exclusive, in spite of almost democratic popularity. But of course that little spice of variety enters again. never before saw the kind of cute polka dotted fabric that Mrs. Sheldon T. Coleman's new blue suit is fashioned of. It has very fine and faint off-white fleck in dot shape. There is nice feminine. touch to the way the coats collar ripples like jabot. A double sable neckpiece did it's bit. too.
 Sktrting the New Mode
 Mrs. William c. Loew came back from Europe on the Leviathan wear ing something new in skirts. and cut we'll below the knees with T long split-tunic where last years skirts ended. Her tuck-in blouse was of modernistic hand-blocked cash mere. a fabric that bids fair to rival silk for smartness when it comes to scarfs, bags, blouses and even coat linings.
 Princess lines do a lot for the right figure. l saw Mabel Burchard walking down Park avenue in light spring coat cut princess line and it was terribly becoming. Her pouch purse and classic, simple opera pumps were of snakeskin.
 Pin-striped silk is the medium Of some mighty smart blouses and frocks this season. Mrs. James T. Bid we'll has a sweet lavender and white tuck-in. blouse with a scallop- ed collar that falls like jabot. Summer sports frocks will undeubt- edly make use of this dainty silk and shouldn't. be surprised if beach outfits appreciated its summery qualities.
 Flowers Bespeak the Season
 Flowers are giving spring touch to many frocks. Anne kiesewatter wears a charming off-white satin blouse with . :ong- g-coated suit that has a flower made of satin at the point of its V neck, a becoming van- ity. Marjorie 'Oelrichs has wide brimmed brown >hat with lovely flowers on 1t and wears shoulder flowers to match.
 Of all flowers however, the lus- cious looking and aluring fragrant gardenia is seen oftenest on new spring outfits. Doris Burden wears one on her right side. though most girls prefer the left shoulder. Jane Foster wore a spray of gardenias one day.