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Show Lace Triumphs Aiiew in the Mode By CHERIE NICHOLAS V ""mT's -': !k serviceable laces In their mL . ' s M . week-end wardrobes. mm a- -f j0 Tlie tw0 blouses illus- M3k : y ilBf trated are typical of the llllifL ; -'vf .Jfr practical turn lace Is taking HER " ' 1I Jr this summer. Each is de- gilffiy Jr signed to be worn with al- Mm ' ,5 w most any type of suit, either LU:f ;. ---"i wl 0 tailored or afternoon, for W the lace itself lends softness am i $'Mgjr '-JBL and charm and distinction, IllLls-v while the styling is simple and tailored. serviceable laces In their week-end wardrobes. The two blouses illustrated illus-trated are typical of the practical turn lace Is taking this summer. Each is designed de-signed to be worn with almost al-most any type of suit, either tailored or afternoon, for the lace itself lends softness and charm and distinction, while the styling is simple and tailored. fTERETOFORE lace has generally been regarded as a thing of esthetic mein a medium of luxury as it were, limited to evening gowns and dressup blouses and frilly furbelows furbe-lows and such. Which is all well enough, for when it comes to feminine fascination lace never faileth. In this day of enlightenment and independent in-dependent thinking, however, we are not allowing ourselves to be hampered by tradition or custom and so the fashion world has come out boldly this year with the message that lace can be every whit as practical and utilitarian as it can be glamorous and pictorially lovely. Now that the practicability prac-ticability of lace .has been recognized beyond question, style creators of high degree as well as those of lesser prestige are using it without reserve for many of their smartest tailored rind sports suits and dresses and blouses. There is such a variety, too. of laces nowadays which adds greatly to the One of the new "string-type" laces made in an interesting weave of heavy and fine cotton thread fashions the blouse with the ruffle-edge revers. The other blouse is made of a more conventional lighter weight lace. Its mellow creamy color Is extremely flattering. flat-tering. The effective simplicity of these blouses is exactly what women of discriminating taste covet for summer sum-mer wear. Blouses like these are the easiest kind of garments to make, even for a non-expert. As to their coolness for hot-weather wear, that is one of their most delightsome features. fea-tures. Miss 1934 will wear lace In pastel shades quite informally throughout the summer evening dine-and-dance hours. It is not enough that one have a frock of lovely lace but to satisfy fashion's demands there must be a jacket to match. The ensemble in the picture is typical of the newest trend in lace two-pieces. It is of a heavy cotton lace in pale pink. Paris has decreed trains for evening dresses and this one is no exception. Even though it boasts a slight train the gown Is really quite Informal, the more so In that it has tiny sleeves and is cut high in front a low-cut back, however, for such Is the way of the mode this season. The jacket is styled with utmost ut-most simplicity as are all those which are matched to the lace frocks they top. And so on and so on it goes, wherever smart youth gathers this summer, on country club porches, on cool hotel roofs, on moonlit decks the first favorite will be lace. by Western Newspaper Union. sphere of usefulness. Many of the newer types have a fabric-like quality qual-ity which makes them versatile for all sorts of apparel. The big thrill about the new cotton and linen thread laces is that as perfectly per-fectly beautiful as they are, they qualify qual-ify 100 per cent to the good when it comes to being practical and wearable, wear-able, In that they launder wonderfully, wonder-fully, not even requiring the painstaking painstak-ing ironing and pressing which is Imperative Im-perative with the majority of washable wash-able materials. Wherefore it is easy to see why so many women are Including In-cluding blouses and dresses made of |