The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-02
WOlMAN,S REALM ]
Novel Modes Emerge As Stars
 Of Fall Fashion ShOWingS
By MARION YOUNG

NEA Service StOff Correspondent
 New York--Now that cable wires between New York and Paris have cooled of, imports are not only here but copied and American designers feel free to take few days of be- fore beginnings their midWinter and Palm Beach "lines," the woman who has waited until this month to shop will have no excuse if she goes wrong on anything.
 The mode is set. It's fairly simple for anyone to find what is smart, flattering and, even more import ant, sure to be smart until spring.
 This is a fall and will be winter to look like an elegante instead of a sweet and simple little schoolgirl. Suave and sleek and which make you look smarter than pretty. You worry about lines and fabrics in- stead of trick trimmings or atten- tion-getting colors. Regardless of your weight, height, age or where you live, there's a sophisticated air about every item in your wardrobe. Fashions have grown up.
 However, if all the about elegance, luxurious furs, precious jewels and expensive fabrics has made you with the slim pocket-books pretty de- jressed, take deep breath and long walk and pull yourself out of a self-pitying frame of mind before one store. All is not what it seemed in first cable reports. There's great evidence of elegance, of course, but it's still possible to look smart on little money. Substitute taste for cash and nothing can floor you. Simple Suits Are Just as Smart as
 Elegant" models
 Maybe you think fashionables con- dascend to consider lavishly furred cortume suits or those with dresses and boXy fur jackets and no other kind. Think again and take heart.
 Suits are important, that part is true. But it's just as true that rules for smartness in suits are most flex- ible. A simple little tweed number with slim skirt and short jacket to to wear under your old fur coat is good buy. So is a bland little suit with slender skirt, jacket that can be worn with or without a blouse, and boxy coat in matching fabric. And one of the very incest costume suits includes one-piece black wool dress, matching jacket with volum- 1nous blue. fox collar, and is not priced frighteningly high.
 If your diaphragm isn't exactly flat and your stomach isn't any, thing to brag about either, forget about the popular (almost too pop ular, if you ask mel corrected look through the middle. There are scads of smart dresses one who isn't flat as 8 pancake will like, including your old favorite, the shirtwaist frock. Only this falls shirtwaister doesn't have fullness in the skirt and there's more detail in the bodice.
 For daytime, slim -and-seductive (Slim below the waistline, seductive above) is the rule. Shirring, draping, pleating and the like provide figure molding lines that make for the re- quired seductive effect.
 Stylish Economy in Evening
 Gowns With Jackets
 Daytime necklines are, for the most part, high. Sleeves are straight and trim. Shoulders are lightly pad- ded to give a nice square but not grotesque line. Skirts are from 13 to IS inches above the floor, depending on your legs and your individual pre- ference. There are few tricky gad- gets on the incest dresses and suits. It's better, as always, to put all your pennies into one simple dress of finest fabric than to divide 1t among several mediocre ones.
 Slim-skirted evening gowns with daring decolletes and matching or contrasting jackets are headlined. If you can, have a single evening outfit per season, one of these is the answer. It's dinner suit and for" nal gown all in one. And, by getting extra jackets, you can vary it to suit your mood and to keep your loving friends from getting tired of the sight of you at parties.
 Full-skirted gowns with nude necklines and slender waists have stayed in the Fall 1887 picture right along. In other words, you can dress in modest or spectacular man. ner and still look smartly turned out.
 The newest coat silhouette is straight and trim. Gone are the fitted princess creations with swirl ing hems of yesteryear. Swaggers-, yes-but shorted Swaggers with mamoth wolf or blue fox collars.