Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1939-03-03
PARIS DESIGNERS

Many Paris designers Oh Cio.tes o.S
known to US quite as well tnrougn
their perfumes and cosmetics, as thru
their dresses, coats, and hats. Some
of these YOU will recognize as soon
as thew are named. Chanel, Lelong,
Molvneux, Lanvin, Schiaparelll-or1g-
inator of the now famous shocking
pink"-Worth, these are some OF them
an dthe models they create come TO
ms in the form of frocks for which we
can buy patterns; dresses we buy IN
the stores: accessories such as belts,
gloves. ribbons, braids, colored talon
fasteners, thread, buttons, flowers and
feathers, handkerchiefs, hosiery, UNI
brellas, handbags, wells and costume
| iewelry. all of which we can match
or contrast with the color, or q note OF
color, of our costumes, and shades
that we can harmonic with these IN
face-powders, rouges, hpstlcks ana
nail-enamels.
For today we women are thinking
in terms of, style, fashion, suitability
and becomingness to our own individ-
'ual selves, and the manufacturers OF
all these things realize this FACT. SO
what we really need to know is what
to help us most in making US look our
best always. We can all be beautiful,
if we do as many of the smartest wo-
men the world over do, who simply
make the most of their best points,
and so arrive at attractiveness. The
Duchess of Windsor is case in
point. If we analyze her features,
her hair, her figure, we find that she
is beautiful because she makes the
most of her good points and dresses
individually, and SO achieves a smart
simplicity that makes her renowned
for attractiveness.
Most of the fabrics used in our
materials over here, had their original
source on the other side of the Allan
tic, and though Paris is recognized as
the outstanding city for style trends
in both fabrics and clothes, and the
models shown in the big couture
houses there influence our own clothes
to very great extent. American
designers are coming into their own
now, for fine ideas and skill in de-
signing are recognized as such in
whatever country they are found.
1889 STYLE TRENDS
Let US take a quick look at 1889
style trends, so that we may know
what to expect in the way of clothes
we will see during the year. To begin
with, we shall see straight, loose coats
with smooth shoulders, rather than
the padded ones we saw in 1888. Hats
will be larger land wells smaller, tho
still very much in evidence. And
why not, when there is no more flat
tering accompaniment to hat that a
woman can wear?
Colors this year will be clear and
singing. Gone are the dusty, off-tone
shades of yesteryear. Pastels hold
sway at Southern resorts, and what is
worn there in winter months is the
barometer by which to gauge our
spring wardrobes. Bright pinks,
blues-all the way from robins egg to
delphinium, through to royal and navy
-yellows, greens, orchids, and a new
clay tone, ranging all the way from
light sandy beige, through ginger to
rusty red. All the pretty, delicate
pastels and the deeper tones of these
same shades, can be combined and in
terchanged in a very practical way
that we will talk more about next
week.
Instead of the high-waist line so
unbecolning to many women, particu-
larly those of us who are not tall, or
long-waisted, or very slender, the
waist line will be low er, and if there
is fullness in dress. it will be set
on below the hips. Many of us re-
member happily when this style was
definitely the mode in clothing, and
now once more the style pendulum has
swung back to the days when many
of the fashions we will sec this year,
are familiar to us. Of course they
will be modernized, adapted to the
present day, but still recognizable.
DEFINITION OF FASHION
FASHION-the word and what it
may imply, how It functi ms and why,
means to many people sort of mys-
terious moving Of forces somewhere
in the world, of sources unknown,
whereby somehow, photographs Of
fabulous folk far removed from our