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Show SPRING SUITS ARE YOUNG WITH JACKETS SHORTER If skirts have gone down a-nd out, jackets have gone up until they are very, very short, says Marian Corey, who writes about this and other fashion trends in McCall's for February: "The youngest thing in spring suits is the one with the wide wide skirt and the short short jacket. One such suit has a short jacket with a flouncy hipline. It should adorn only the smallest of waistlines. The drop shoulders are padded roundly, not squarely, and not thickly either. The skirt has a three-yard whirl at the hemline. "The short jacket is of first importance im-portance to the very youthful suit for spring. And when a jacket is very short, the skirt is very wide. The flared skirt of one suit zooms out to more than three yards at the hem and that, incidentally, is the best of the new wide widths, having a nice whirl but not being outrageously bulky. The jacket ihas a little flirt of a flare at the hips, just to make things interesting inter-esting from the rear. "Another suit has just about everything that a girl could wish for in a suit: a new neckline the shawl collar, a new kind of fit in the jacket 12 narrow panels, a tiny waistline, a bustle ripple, and.i a back flare in the skirt. A sophisticated, elegant suit number is just the thing for gabardine or faille or satin. The backward dip of the jacket is important it's in the waist and in the peplum both The skirt is slim, as it should be with such a jacket. "The low flare is a new fashion combining with long slim lines to make a new silhouette. In a dress that illustrates this, there are actually two flounces one for ripple, and an under one, in taffeta, taf-feta, for rustle. A tunic is a nice way to get a low flare. The unusual un-usual thing about a tunic is that you get two silhouettes in one. In one design the tunic produces a flared line, the underskirt a slim one. Many people find this way of wearing a flare easier on the figure." |