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Show Velvet Is Latest Entry in Midsummer Fashion The arrival of velvet as a midsummer midsum-mer fashion was one of the surprises of the recent group of fashion collections collec-tions shown by the Paris dressmakers to foreign buyers and members of the press. Lightweight velvet, woven in new textures as fine as other silk materials, ma-terials, was used to make dresses designed de-signed to wear even In the warmest summer months. Velvet raincoats were shown by some houses. Velvet jackets for daytime day-time town wear, long traveling coats of velveteen and many evening costumes cos-tumes were among the velvet fashions Introduced during the collections. The newer velvets are of two vari eties those which are firm and stiff, and those which are soft and supple and fall In deep folds. Mirande shows an evening cape, knee length, made of the stiff velvet. |