Evening star., 1930-06-15
BY HELEN DRYDEN.

@HE annual problem is upon us
again. How, oh how, be cool
on hot days-yet be adequately
Il dressed and smartly, and pre-
serve this chic throughout the
day. 1t is a more acute problem when
it comes to days in town than in the
country. There one is allowed a GER
tain casualness of dress. In town,
though, the tout enSemble"-if one is
to dress in good taste-must be OBJ
served.
Fashion this season has an answer to
all these problems, big or little, and the
incest part of it is that it can really
be done very inexpensively and a ward
robe that covers all the phases of fash
ion-every one style-right-can be
achieved for budgets of all sizes, start
ing with really low one.
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IF it is possible, chiffon dresses are
more important than ever this Sum-
mer Characterization has gone fem
inine-what more charmingly suitable
material is there than chiffon with its
fiattering and cool nature. For the
necessary afternoon fashions, graceful
" designed frocks for tea and bridge
are best done in chiffon. In the eve
ming. too, we find chiffon paramount.
The pastel and bright colors in plain
chiffon are most attractive. The prints
have never been so distinctive or so
numerous If ii is a print you choose
remember to make a most careful Sc
lection-for there lies the outstanding
effect of your frock.
There are many huge patterns, geo.
metric splashes on dark or light grounds
combinations Of color. startling or sub
tilely subdued. Some of the best of the
new prints have a rather clear-cut ma
ture in the way of outline, and are
in vivid colors, rather modernistic in
J theme Small patterns-eXcept the
quaint Dolly Warden prints in chiffon or
organdy, and they are piquantly youth
ful-are not as sophisticated as the
larger ones
WITH the formal trend of the mode
bringing longer skirts and the
uressmaker suits to the fore, new type
OF chiffon ensemble, designed particu-
larry for town wear, has come into be-
ing. 1t is blend of informality and
semi.formality-and as such is appli-
cable and correct for many daytime oc-
eaSions.
Two types represented Of this class
are popular-one with a cape, the other
with jacket. There are others with
long sleeves, boleros, short and long
coats, in prints of large patterns with
dark backgrounds, and long. full yet
gracefully slender skirts. But the one
consistent point about all of them is
that as q costume they are complete
and intrinsically smart.
Business women can wear these with
perfect correctness and be suitably
dressed for the day-continuing on to
dinner and the theater too. They can
be worn with nat crepe coats In black
or matching color, too. and apart
from the chic of this one combination,
fiat crepe coat can be worn with such
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an economical thing to have. In buy
ing or making such coat, have cape
effect If 1t is becoming to you, but be
sure that the coat is complete without
the cape, so that another year, for
variety, the coat can be worn without
the cape and will be one of the al
ways correct straightline type of thing.
PROBABLY the most helpful item in
the prospective wardrobe for hot
weather will be the suit. It Is appli-
cable for town and country wear in its
different variations, but its greatest value
is for town wear. A suit achieves, first,
. wen-dressed appearance-discreet, In
good taste, and completely smart-and,
second. 1t Is cool.
The best of these suits and the ones
most worthy Of note follow the trend
OF the dressmaker suit of the Spring
among these are the printed crepe suits.
They are two or three piece, a dress
and q bolero jacket or coat. or the jack
ct and skirt of a print and a plain
color blouse that accents a dominant
color note. The prints here are small
--blosSoming or spriggy ones-cubeS-
and, Of course, polka dots--and many
other motifs of astrological and geo
metrical design. The dresses and the
blouses are short-sleeved or sleeveless
q cool point in their favor.
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THEN there Is another family Of ma
terials-one that has heretofore
had completely sport tendencies. Shan
tung, pique or linen is being shown in
tailleurs and the softer dresSmaker type
of suit in street colors. Pleated skirts.
man-tailored coats make them most
trim looking things-and their crisp,
washable quality adds a fresh appear
snce TO their natural GOODNESS. They
can be worn with tailored blouses or
frilly rufny ones-and they are complete
In their correctness and chic.
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