Evening star., 1933-01-26
Shopping in Washington
A Weekly
D i 6 e s t
By
Margaret
Warner

its effect. I forgot to say that the
blouses of these two suits have a high
collarless neckline that is caught at the
front with a clip, and they look very
pretty above the jackets.
There is quite an assortment of the
manniSh mixtures, and among them We
find an oxford gray, with green and
white striped linen blouse; a finely
checked tan and white, with vest of fam
mel in orange, tan and white small
black and white check with gray fan
mel vest. and kind of turquoisy blue
gray tweed, with deep stole revere
and its own silk pique scarf in match
ing color, with pattern of small loz-
enges. This color is very unusual and
particularly becoming to a young face
with gray hair or to those with Titan
locks.
In the boXy coat suits we find some
delightful coco browrs-one with a
melon tinted blouse and another with
short jacket under its longer coat.
This latter model is NOSE useful for
travel and, in fact. for general wear,
too The COCO brown is a splendid
color for combining with beige and
dark brown, and these suits, being we'll
tailored on conservative lines, will look
snappy and be satisfying to the wearer
mediate length coat suits have the coat
of darker material than the skirt. as
shown in a recent number Of Vogue
and demonstrated by local up-to-the-
minute shop.
The use of twin weaveS in suits Is
quite noticeable this season, especially
in the sports models, where monotone
and a tWo-color companion tweed are
combined to good advantage. One of
these, in string color, uses the mono
tone for the jacket, with wide scarf of
checked weave in the same color,
which is attached to the collar at the
side, and so serves instead of collar
at the front. The ends are fringed.
The skirt is of the checked weave and
the result is new-looking Spring out
fiji. A new coat in tweed mixture of
green, brown and beige has a waist
length cape and a straight standing
collar with Ascot tie.
A WORD as to navy blue for Spring,
which seems to have been neglect
ed so far in this weeks story of the
new fashions. Navy blue is listed first
by many houses as the Springs best
color for suits, coats and dresses. How
ever, all are not agreed on this sub
ject, and others list the beige and
brown combinations first, so it still re-
mains to be seen which will win out in
popularity. But, of course, blues are
always worn great deal in the Spring
and are welcome change from so
much brown and black that we see dur
ing the Winter months.
Some Of the most attractive new
dresses are being shown in navy blue,
with touches of white. For instance, a
sheer crepe with short fitted basque
blouse buttoned all the way down the
front has collar of part blue and part
white rough crepe that widens out as it
leaves the neck and hangs freely. The
ruffed sleeves are shirred into drooped
shoulders and have long plain cuffs.
The dresses now depend so much upon
above-the-waist interest that it is
hardly necessary to mention the skirts
at ALL except to say that in general
they are straighter than they have
been. Large bows of checked and
plaided taffeta are appearing as neck
finishes, especially on youthful dark
blue frocks, and are very bright and
perky
A bright blue dress, of this type uses
one of these bows in tiny blue and
white check made into rather fiat
bow and fastened down with two red
buttons at the side, where it is placed
| oC q HC-oC6LCC dii6iC. n NCly lOFSy
white and blue print in spider web
and lozenge design is trimmed with
plain dark blue and uses silver clips for
accents.
To go back to suits, there is dar-
ling model in gray cashmere, with high
wasted printed silk bodice in red and
white The material is horizontally
tucked at intervals Of about inches
for both jacket and skirt There is an
extended shoulder effect and huge
square silver buttons. This model is
being shown in two Washington shops.
A gray flannel three-piece suit has a
long cape hanging from fitted yoke.
scarf ends that tie in the front and
some bright red buttons to pep it up.
Most of these long capes have arm Sits
! for convenience. The long cape effect
will give us new silhouette for Spring
and will find many devotees.