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Show 'Fashion Futures- American Edition9 Presented at JV. Y. Style Pageant NEW-YORK,-Nov, 23 iX1um spotlight flashed on American fashions - last night - with the strongest light it ever has focused fo-cused on style originated in the United States when the fashion grou p p rese n ted "Fas h ion FuturesAmerican Fu-turesAmerican Edition." The all American theme was chosen for the two-hour display in keeping with the rise of America's Amer-ica's achievements in fashion during dur-ing tha last yaars. Tha brilliant pageant of com. Ing spring fashions presented 700 costumes with furs, jewels and accessories worth a half million mil-lion dollars. One hundred of America's prettiest mannequins paraded the outfits, which varied all the way from California play clothes and costumes for air travel to negligees and formal evening gowns. Warm beige and sun tones, blues in a wide and varied range, green, white and held th fftT limelight California play clothes stressed shorts and slacks of cotton, linen or rayon suiting worn with box jackets and halters or blouses of contrasting hue. Culottes (divided (divid-ed skirts), coin dotted, cotton, dressmaker swims uit and knee length beach coats also were shown. j Traveling clothes featured slim wool dresses worn with straight furred topcoats, plain frocks ac- 1 rnmpnniH hy ftui jrht -rnj brown, green and mustard tweed suits. - Crepe- - afternoon frocks generally clung to the slim fitted diaphragm and were often worn with striking colored accessories, such as raffia embroidered jacket. Skirts and sleeves were short Evening clothes were glamorous, glamor-ous, decollete and full skirted. Sheer chiffons, crisp nets and glistening glis-tening satins in such hues as white, chartreuse, gray, wine. - rose and green topped with shim-me shim-me ring little jackets embroidered with shells r sequin were out standing. - The vogue for "craiy hats" was reflected in a display devoted entirely en-tirely to such striking headgear as pancake berets worn at a AO-degree AO-degree angle and eccentric straw shapes with colored veil loops. Jackets, slated for a place In tha fashion sun this spring, appeared in every possible cut. i |