Show Modern Life in New Prints for Spring Wear dear Portray Vividly Contemporary c A America erica 2 t U N Nw w r r y 0 w ip s Stars and Stripes print upp upper r Contemporary America all as a ex ex- ex left lett Racquets Racquet and and Balls alla upper upper presse pressed d. d in S a spring p g po prints rinh The frock right Tugboats Tug ats and lower left is a cardigan sports model of t the h e Playthings By JULIA BLANCHARD Spring establishes all allover over again the authority of ot print so print so far as as style in materials mater go The printed frock will be e. e the smart one one from from ballroom t to beach this season Dozens of different rent patterns figure in the designs of these new prints and in every material ma material rila- rila from silks slUm to transparent transparent trans trans- parent parc t velvets There are flowers birds beasts beads dots dashes blocks geometric figures figures fig fig- ures ures some conventional patterns others ethers with their figures scattered in desultory In manner here or there MODERNS MOST MOST INTERESTING The most interesting of ot the new prints are the modern ones If these are foreign prints they may look to M s domes Viennese crystal no fl floWers ers or Indian culture for their inspiration ut per cent ceni American American Americ n prints take contemporary ont life ute inthis In Inthis inthis this country under consideration and derive the m most st unusual designs designs de de- signs from activity Some pf of ot them take definite locales into their scheme and feature the character characteristics of ot some som spot dear to the heart of the designer Such is Cactus Mowers Flowers from flom the desert and a print that shows the delicate I grandeur of ot the eucalyptus tree designed de designed de de- signed by a Californian CHUGGING CHUG TUGS Intriguingly new are the prints printe that have some motor impulse behind behind be be- hind them Tugboats designed signed by A. A is especially fitting this season for it shows a multitude multitude multitude multi multi- tude of ot little red and blue tugs at full fun steam chugging chug up a a. grayish blue background that might be the harper Speckles of ot color flutter here nere ere and there across the pattern in n gusts that look like the type of ot confetti s shower shaver OWel that ac se- accompanies companies a Lindbergh welcome or ora ora ora a a reception to the Irish president Something new in the thc wa way of ot pa patriotism patriotism pa- pa Is the Helen Wills print called Stars and Stripes This waves the flag In a rhythmic pattern pattern pattern pat pat- tern of ot red and white rippling stripes and stars on a rich blue background For a conventional pattern thus this design does wonders with the stars and stripes stripes' and Is a charming print for s sUch Ch an attractive attractive attractive tive ensemble as the one shown flown This uses the print for tor the cardigan cardi cardi- gan sports suit and the kerchief as well wen Quaint and delicately beautiful is the unusual translation lation of ot tennis equipment to a silk design in the print called Racquets Ra and Balls BaIls Groups of ot racquets from an an un unconventional con circle the groups of ot balls baIls a unique little figure while the entire en entire en- en tire Ure co court rt is outlined in zigzag line like a group of oC spectators alternately alternate alternate- ly ty- crowding and being pushed back Even the players are features one one serving one receiving This Is kept dainty by using light lIn lines s of ot 1 black lacI navy blue or red on an white oyster background Most astounding of ot all the prints is the design n by Helen Dryden called caned Playthings It is as interesting in interesting in in- as a crossword puzzle forit forit for forit it uses all aU athletic equipment from fishing hook to parachute in hi its pattern pat pat- tern and if it one is ambitious he can discern twenty different symbols of ot s sport including the radiator of an an auto a parachute jumper a a- fencing figure balls baIls for baseball football tennis golf gol and handball skates t. t polo hat stirrup for riding a fish a lunch hamper p paddle golf sticks I polo mallet and some skis lIds I INTRIGUING TO CHILDISH IMAGINATION I All these things thinEs can can be combined so well weIl because light lines of ot red blue white and black are are re used on ona a a. background background of ot silver gray It is quite the silk sUk for mother to use as 33 deciphering it would catch a childs child's im imagination and arid keep it occupied I indefinitely ely I These new v Americana prints are nrc all vigorous stimulating and pleasing pleas pleas- pleasing as ing because each one ono is designed by some well known artist with a no definite deft deft- nite thing in mind They have been called caned modern J portrait Or r lt points because be be- be cause ot th their i endeavor to transfer ter to th the realm of ot dress goods silks something from contemporary American life NEA |