Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-30

bands with sufficient fullneSs allowed
SO that they are adjustable.
These suits you may select either in
wool or silk and later on in cotton,
for cottons are coming to town this
Spring by way of tailormadeS for the
street. The more loosely woven, sup
pie tweeds, lightweight woolens such
as wool crepes and novelties, soft cash
mereS and certain silk and wool novel
ties, all are used for suits with these
softening, feminine touches.
x X y X
1T is in silks, either plain or printed,
that suits are seen at their best.
Crepe Is the favorite medium. There
are few failles among the plain fab
RIGS. also taffetas, of navy, black or
brown, and some standings.
Suits of printed silks are quite as
numerous as those of solid colors. The
three pieces, skirt, blouse and jacket,
may be of the same print or the blouse
may be of companion print, a white
background dotted in black to be worn
with skirt and jacket of the black
ground Sprinkled over with white dots.
other companion print ideas show the
same design in different textures, crepe
and chiffon, for example, and in reverse
color cmobinationS. One still sees that
DODuIdI Vi DL 4A4JCd SA4h III
the blouse matched to the lining OF the
coat.
WHILE the suit is new and dominant,
w it has not by any means banished
the dress and coat combination. For
every dress this Spring must have an
outer wrap of its own. 1t may be a
long coat, q short jacket, a cape, or
lAf0ahok,ln hnInNA taat sort
Of covering must appear on the street.
The one exception is the coat dress, and
this looks so much like long coat that
it can pass for one. AS q rule these
costumes are more formal In character
than suits, for the dress is always more
formal than the skirt and blouse.
The fabric, too, is more formal, q
novelty lightweight wooden, broadcloth,
cashmere, or silk. Very often silk and
wool are combined, as in costumes
where printed crepe dress Is worn
with a long coat OF q wooden fabric
matching in color the ground Of the
quarters or even full length.
They are somewhat fitted, many being
cut on princess lines, with a slight
flare, produced by goring, at the hem.
And there Is, nine times out Of ten, a
cape or bolero, actual or simulated by
tuck or band. A bolero in the front
viii sometimes develop into q cape In
the back. Sometimes the capelet viii
serve as sleeves, thus giving the gar
ment all the jauntiness Of cape.
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EVEN furs are more formal. Whereas
- q scarf of narrow band of galyak
or one of the fat peIts win give the
furry touch to q suit. the new coats
will display collar and possibly revers
Of fox, ermine. or natural lynx. An
edging Of the fur win often finish the
cape of the coats, and sometimes VIII
border the fronts.
Sometimes it is in the treatment of
the sleeves, where all sorts Of novelties
In the way Of cuffs are introduced, In
the diagonal closings and In the discreet
yet definite method of dressing UP"
the back, that we find the infallible
signs of the more formal character Of
the garment.
Bows, capelets, boleros, peplums,
elbows and quarter sleeves, al are
featured on short jackets, which are
quite as smart on the street as long
coats. A connecting link is the duplica-
ton Of treatment in dress and jacket,
the fare Of the bolero repeated in the.
fu1lness of the peplun or the peplum
of the jacket accented by tlaring tier
on the skirt of the dress.
Many Of these casual little jackets are
collarless. the lingerie collar Of the dress
serving as a finish to the coat.
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