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Show YOU CAN'T BE CASUAL BUYING A SUIT i ; 1 Truly Chic Woman Goes Into a Huddle With Herself Over Accessories . Editor' Note: This la the first of a series of article ar-ticle en the new fall style. By MARIAN YOUNG NEW YORK No truly chic woman says: "Now I must buy a fall suit," or "I think I'll get a new hat next week." No. Indeed. Her conversation with herself goes about like this : "How do I want to look this fall? If I get a suit, what kind of accessories will I need to go with It? What type of clothe best suit my kind of figure? Should I do something about my figure fig-ure before I even consider anything new? Is my hair right with the hat I'll want to wear with the suit I have In mind?' i l ; .V, A V In other words, she's a planner and a schemer. She knows what's being talked about In the stores at the moment. She thinks twice before picking a style that Is being talked about too much. Before trying on a single suit, she has made up her mind what accessories will be needed. She looks straight down her nose at the sort of shopper who gets a hat on the spur of the moment and then has to buy dress, shoes, bag and gloves to wear with It. Once she has completed her shopping list, bought a new foundation foun-dation garment and decided how she's going to wear her hair, she shops for a suit. She knows that suits have taken on a new importance im-portance this fall. Every silhouette, every fabric Snd every type of trimming Is as perfectly represented In suits as in day dresses and separate coats. You can be as feminine looking In a dressmaker suit as you can be trimly tailored in a slim tweed one. There are costume suits galore aome with short boleros over matching or harmonizing dresses, many with longer Jackets, quantities quanti-ties with fuU-length coats. The last named Is ultrautllitarlan, of course. The coat will go over other dresses and the dress may be worn under a fur Jacket or heavier winter win-ter coat Fur trimmings are highlighted, with such outstanding American designers as Helen Cookman putting put-ting fur yokes as well as fur sleeves and every kind of collar on becoming be-coming dressmaker suits. Tiny, moderately flared peplums at the backs of suit Jackets give the popular fullness-at-the-back effects. ef-fects. The new double-swing skirts and accordion pleated ones are shown with hipbone-length Jackets. Jack-ets. The pencil-slim or cigaret silhouette sil-houette Is as handsomely worked out in suits as in day dresses. It's new to wear linen blouses with tweeds. It's smart to buy two sets of accessories to wear with your suit one tailored, the other quite afternoon-ish. For variety's sake, have several scarfs as well as the right blouses. And use a little imagination about tying the former. Ascot ties are fine and dandy, but so are any number of bow treatments. Incidentally, to keep a crossed, but untied, scarf In place, fasten lingerie tape or ribbon to both ends and pin the ends of the tape together in the middle of your back. Smert accessories to wear with a new fall suit or to make last year's suit look like new include Suiy's mob-cap hat, the new back treatment treat-ment to follow up the snood. It is soft black felt with scarlet wool yarn trimming. Note the wool gloves with shirred gauntlet cuffs. The step-in pumps of black kidskin, lower left, will make a tailored suit more formal. The bright ear clips and the jewel studded, heart-shaped heart-shaped pin with ear clips to match, lower right, are new. At upper up-per right ere hand-made gloves of noncrackeble black suede with mountain snake trim to match the large bag. Also obtainable are opera pumps with the same snake trimming. , |