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Show L?.re Gown With a Tailored Look By CIIER1E NICHOLAS 4s .XI ? 3 - -w r i : ; 1 m hsv k. 1 CO.MEHOW at the mention of a lace gown It seems the natural thing to vision a sort of fluffy-ruffle affair which is prettily and utterly feminine flown to the last detail. Well, It may be all that, and many adorable types are as blmy and fanciful as ever, for the lace gown in any and every Interpretation Inter-pretation remains the idol of fashion. However, there has crept into the mode a feeling for clothes which have a tailored look. The part of the story which is real "news" is that this tai-lored-tnindedness extends to evening and dinner gowns to such an extent that designers take keen delight in tailoring tai-loring "le sheerest of chiffons, and the latest member tc yield to the tailored influence is lace. One of the outstanding features of the tailored effects which give distinction distinc-tion to the evening modes is the Intricate Intri-cate seaming such as dressmakers years ago would hesitate to attempt in handling laces and thin gauzy materials. mate-rials. Note how the art of seaming has iieen brought to a point of perfection perfec-tion in the fashioning of the handsome lace dinner gown pictured to the left. Here you have a little jacket which effects, by means of seaming and seeming, too, for that matter a very high line, hut a moment later contrives a medium waistline. A priceless piece of compromise this for when the fash ion news came along that the 10."'2 waistline would he high we sighed beavilj for the many women who find high waistlines most unllattering. This indeed is a frock desirable not only for the woman who lias a perfect figure but is an excellent model for the woman who has to cross off potatoes, puddings and pies from her menu. The handsome and new-this-year durene lace of which this gown is made Is, as you see, particularly adaptable adapt-able to tailored treatment. Both Ireland Ire-land and Venice have bad a hand In designing this durene lace and you will find, as the season advances, that the smartest laces belong exclusively neither to the Emerald isle or to the City of Islands but to both, A dinner gown that make, no pretense pre-tense of being essentially either for debutaat or dowager, but Is really a gown for all ages, Is worn by the lady seated. It has a pleasing low back artfully trimmed with the cutout edging edg-ing of the soft durene lace. Here also seaming, this time in diagonal movement move-ment Is employed thus molding the gown to the figure in those snug-fitting lines which are so universal in fashion's fash-ion's realm this season. One can imagine the effectiveness of a lace gown such as this in wine red or Van Dyke brown which Is one of the very new names on the color card or perhaps in a smart navy blue in fact in any of the dark colorings which have entered the evening mode. The call for classic gowns of slender slen-der silhouette made very simply of lace such as pictured is being heard more and more as summer advances. For afternoon wear the pastel shades are very much liked and usually there Is a matching jacket. (. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.) |