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Show Y'SCQUTOCMWR. MARCH 14. 1984 SOUTH DAVIS ADVERTISER, MAfKftM 3.1398flfl3VCA ARCfl '! '4 Bi'AQ HTU03 WGT .M HORMvi Spring 84 styling is flattering & feminine For spring 1984, a collection of luxuriously feminine day and evening dresses for women is the offering of the season from Albert Nipon. An extravaganza of beautiful fabrics, fastidious detail, and precise tailoring, the collection encompasses casual dresses to streamlined elongated tanks to sophisticated day suits sailor and swingtime dresses to sleek, sultry eveningwear. A group of floral plaid linen dresses and jumpers paired with sheer organdy blouses evoke the Austrian countryside with full, skirts, graceful scooped necklines, and bell sleeves. In contrast, several dresses are slender, pared-dow- n tanks, worn alone or with cropped linen shells. Intriguing yet demure is a linen dress - featuring a short sleeve bodice with a broad white linen sailor collar, either scalloped or striped with nautical bars, over a mid-cal- f, swingy skirt inset with a high, broad ck MAR'84 THE MIDNIGHT BLACK PUSSYCAT! The Albert Nipon halter dress of silk gazar with a full intermission-lengt- h and a low sculpted back, bow-nec- k skirt f - waistband. Chemises are shaped like kimonos and held at the hip or waist with belts, or are slim, set in motion with pleats. Shirt dresses and double breasted coatdresses in obi-wra- long-an- d short-slee- ve MAR84 ver- SWEET BABY TUCKS spill down the bodice of this demure two- linen dress woven in a soft countryside floral checkerboard ?iece cap sleeves and the wide full skirt are iced with sheer white organza, sions are detailed with the signature Nipon detachable rounded white linen collar and soft silk bow. Two or three piece suits sized bouffant bow coverare shown with halter-cu- t ing the entire bodice blouses tied with big pusfront. sycat bows or cropped The details of each linen shells over slender dress are flattering and skirts. The feminine without being dressmaker jackets, whether simple fussy or contrived. Tra-puncardigans or long, lightstitching outlines weight, lined coats display the neckline and sleeves of the hallmarks of Fine a kimono dress, draws the haberdashery tailoring. eye .to a waistline, or exis aggerates the asymmetric The eveningwear designed to attract, entice, flap at the neck of a day and to dazzle and it or cocktail dress. Pleats are meticulously lavished does! Tiers of silk organza ruffles swoop over a on sleeves, cummerbunds, and yokes. Some are stitshoulder, frame a candleched down and released at lit face, or flounce flirta-ciouson a strategic points for a flutcocktail dress of ter of movement. Tucks or horizontally burning fuchsia gazar. Art wrap deco details gleam on a diagonally around the torgroup of icy pastel Swiss so. Tender picot stitching dresses. trims the ruffled collar of crepe after-fiv- e chemise and For late evening, skirts an after-fiv- e are ankle length and skin delicate faggoting borders is coyly covered with the hems of linen jumpers. pcck-a-bo- o satin chiffon Signature bows tie at the in black or bright neck, cap a shoulder, or stripes wrap a hip. scarlet, or bared in backor The fabrics, as always, less, strapless gowns halter dresses. An en- are extraordinary, designtrance maker is a silk ed expressly for the Albert Imhand Nipon collection. organza gown, in jewel-tone- d ported silk crepe de chines painted abstract stripes, its bare are splashed with colorful d back bars and by geometries, spaghetti straps, an over stripes, garden and jungle t to L ly Qj MAR 84 & SfiP TO SHORE communications from Albert Nipon. A semaphore sweater of navy spliced with white and bright mangold, worn over a silk shantung anchor print blouse, is teamed with cuffed deck pants of cnsp, white CLEAN-CU- linen. TPITV.UV . u I ! t criss-crosse- flowers and floral jacquards, or whimsical dots A modern Miro print in red, black, and white is in graphic contrast to vivid royal and black or beige and black tiger stripes. Buoyant crayola hearts are painted on both silk and linen. Sheer handkerchief linens are winningly combined with crisp solid linen or with a soft linen black and white floral plaid. Lightweight tissue gabardine is utilized in crisply tailored suits and safari styled dresses. A linen herringbone is cut in an elegant steamer coat worn with a slim matching skirt and sheer linen bow blouse. Swiss crepe, dotted silk chiffon and organza, chiffon striped satins and vibrant gazars provide dramatic evening allure. For casual or big dressing, from day city to evening, these dresses suits, and eveningwear the best in represent American style, quality and timeless, feminine sophist ication.f 9 |