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Show : COTTON SUITS THE SEASON HANDSOMELY y The spring suit comes into its own this year. Across the country early collections point up the suit's new fashion importance . . . and from the trend-setting West Coast, the season ushers in a suit look that's feminine, fresh, and young as springtime. To interpret this look, California designers have chosen a number of smart new suiting-weight cottons. Texture is the keynote in these town and travel fabrics. becoming to almost every figure fig-ure type. The gently curved and lengthened suit jacket makes the waist look long and willowy. A softened shoulder line is another new-looking style note In spring suits. Carrying out the soft-line theme are the many suits with gently sloping sleeves . . . the set-in, raglan, or dolman sleeves. White is the most fashionable fashion-able color, or non-color, for spring cotton suits. The white suit usually comes with a dark blouse and jacket lining, or with a Chanel jacket bound in dark braid. Black and, white is the num- j ber one color combination for I checks, plaids, and herringbones, herring-bones, with navy and white running a close second. Pink is another strong color choice for spring suits. The most stylish shades are a softened soft-ened dewy-rose, and a bright hot pink. Whatever the cut or color, fashion experts agree that spring '64 is the season of the suit. Cotton, a fabric traditionally tradi-tionally as fresh as spring itself, it-self, proves its season-spanning "suitability" in California's version ver-sion of the spring suit .... a softly feminine town and travel trav-el outfit, designed with the active American woman in mind. They include cotton tweed, ribbed herringbone, twill, and other ribbed cottons in the ottoman ot-toman category. Also very fashienable are open - weave cottons patterned in bold houndstooth checks or soft plaids. Men's wear pin stripes are perhaps the newest-looking pattern pat-tern in cotton suit fabrics. The pin-striped suit with white cotton cot-ton pique accessories will be especially stylish this spring. More surface interest shows up in the elegant cottons chosen chos-en for evening suits . . . heavy cotton lace, figured cotton brocades, bro-cades, and ripply matelasse. As for styling, "soft but tailored" is the way West Coast designers see the cotton suit for spring, reports' the National Nation-al Cotton Council. Emphasizing Emphasiz-ing shape without fit, designers have achieved a suit look that successfully combines meticulous meticu-lous tailoring ' and soft feminity femin-ity Biggest design information has to do with the suit jacket. It varies from the double-breasted double-breasted Chanel-type blazer to cardigan and capelet styles. Also in vogue is the no-button jacket, Worn open to show a lining and blouse of matching material. Whatever the style of jacket, jack-et, it's the new longer length that is most noteworthy. Jackets Jack-ets reach well below the hip-line, hip-line, and many can even be worn as short coats. This longer line provide an "elongated torso" effect that Is |
