Evening star., 1938-03-23

portant among the more sophisticated
clothes, calling for special lipstick and
makeup, as we have mentioned pre-
viously in this column.
EVEN shoes are taking up the color
theme song One of the smart
shops in town has spring window
display of bright colored reptile shoes
to wear with prints and plain colored
frocks. The shaded effect Of the
reptile skins showing through the
color makes an unusually interesting
effect, and keeps these light colors
from being too garish. Lettuce green,
and Chinese yellow are new for shoes.
and there are smart blues. reds and
tans also. each with matching hand
bag in smart styles.
Gloves, too. afford another means of
introducing color into the picture. You
will want at least one gay pair. either
in one Of the pastel flower colors in
suede or doeskin for dressy wear, or
more conservative gloves trimmed with
color. They come in lilac. delphinium
blue, yellow. soft pink, bright green.
Even the white doeskins have stitch
ings and whipped edges OF color.
Gloves for street and casual wear
show marked tendency toward elm
ination OF the classic three -forked
Paris-point lines on the back Of the
hand. Instead. they are using vertical
lines of stitching on top, with natural
palms-or natural with darker colored
palms. They are very smart. Some
have straight upper fastenings on
the top Of the hand which are both
ornamental and convenient.
Fabric gloves are also adopting color
in big way, using the light and dark
idea in one color with seams hand
sewn in contrast to the glove. Powder
blue with dark blue, dusty pink with
Alix red and bright Kelly green with
brown are the most frequently seen.
IN LINE with the spring thirst for
color were number of the cos
tunes shown at luncheon last Satur-
day, featuring a fashion promenade
at one Of the hotels. Noted especially
vas an unusual two-piece ensemble OF
navy sheer. with skirt-length coat with
the new cardigan neckline and but
toned front closing. The square
necked frock had an enormously wide
elrdle of chartreuse green crepe which
was matched by small straw sailor
hat in the same color. This ensemble
might have used to advantage the
green shoes described above
In spring violet colors for Easter
was lovely frock with blouse of
pieated light violet blue crepe with
bolero back. a wide crushed girdle of
deep violet crepe and finely pleated
skirt Of navy blue. With this was
worn a navy straw pill box, with ap-
plique design Of light blue leather
For smart dining was shown three
color frock In pottery shades Of dull
gold, with surplice blouse topping a
brown streamlined skirt and between
the two wide sash of orange red
with fringed ends.
A chartreuse pleated chiffon dane
ing dress was first shown with a
short boxy sapphire blue velveteen
coat: later, with the coat removed,
it looked the personification Of spring
itself, and was quite enchanting as
shown on mannequin with red gold
hair. Also lovely was soft pink
chiffon trimmed with bands of cording
and worn with a short jacket of
marabou in a luscious crushed straw
berry shade.
While these were the high lights,
numbers of smart wearable navy and
white crepe street ensembles were
shown in plain and printed fabrics
and one of the more wearable frocks
of all was the navy sheer dinner dress
with pleated skirt and white pique
collar and cuffs that is shown in the
center photograph above. Such a
dress will carry you daily through
spring evenings, well on into the
summer.