Evening star., 1936-08-21
-sketched in a Washington Shop.

pockets on the skirt. The collar is
soft gray and the frock is we'll suited
to wear with gray sport coat in
either fleece wool of gray caracul. An
other gray and wine red suit, with
touches of black. has checked top
and skirt of red flecked with gray.
1t buttons closely at center front,
and has rolled scarf of red, and red
leather belt.
To wear with these sport dresses the
same shop has chosen a youthful
sports felt at 81 that they call the
five-way hat. 1t has two little pinched
up tucks on the top of the round crown
and a little feather fancy stuck into
the ribbon band. The medium sized
brim may be worn in different ways to
produce five different outlines to suit
individual faces. The head sizes are
from 2112 to %.
The daisy dress sounds like some
thing for Summertime, but it isn't.
We found this to be one-piece Jer-
sey frock in soft green with white dali
sizes machine-embroidered over its sur
face. 1t has nice flaring skirt and a
slashed high neckline with separate
white pique gilet and green leather
belt 1t also comes in black, and there
is another model with a tunic top
over plain skirt.
Jersey is perennial Fall fabric,
and this year is no exception to the
rule. 1t is nice in soft green in a
two-piece model at $595 that will GER
tainly appeal to the school and college
girl. With shoulder yoke, shirt collar
and patch pocket, the tuck-in blouse
boasts brown upper fastening. The
skirt, with two front pleats, has wide
belt of the material over which Is
worn a brown suede belt with twin
buckles arranged in a novel manner.
It's grand school dress and comes
in other colors besides green.
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A FEW days ago we watched the
= first college fashion show of the
season. Long before starting time the
auditorium was packed to capacity
with young girls, all eager to see the
new college clothes. These dresses,
designed by young American, GER
tainly put over the young idea in most
convincing terms. Each dress had its
own amusing name. such as "Dapper
Dan" and Little Audrey" both day.
time dresses OF wool. Little Audrey"
was a soft green Botany wool with
woody pompons of rust, green and
white encircling the neck and three
of them across the hip pocket. Most
of the skirts had lots of swing in both
daytime and evening frocks and the
models seemed to enjoy the great free
dom of movement which they offered.
A stunning junior evening dress
called "The March Of Time" was OF
white taffeta on high-waisted prin-
cess lines with deep pleated hem ruff
fies Of blue and reddish purple, with
more ribbon used for bow at the
front of the high-necked bodice and
edging the armholes. "Viennese
Nights" was worked out in lilac crepe
with shoulder lacing and bows OF
narrow cerise velvet and tiny sleeves
of ruffled val lace, matched by q
petticoat inset of lace at the bottom
of the :kirt.
Overheard on the way out, from a
group of young sophisticates, was the
question, What did you think of the
white chiffon job?" and the answer,
"All of them weren't bad!" The white
chiffon was a princess dinner dress
with high neck and long, full bishop
sleeves, the bodice gathered onto q
high curved skirt and outlined at
that point and around the neck and
wrists with cleaning bands of gold.
with a row OF gold hlagree buttons
Deiow the collar.
For information concerning items
mentioned IN this column call Ma
tionaI 5000. Extension 395, between 10
and IL am.