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Show New Colors. Styles and Fabrics Mark Fashion's Swing to Spring. Is Report it is a soft clear pale, a medium tone with warmed clarity, or a bright with cooled intensity. Whatever the combination, bicol-or bicol-or and tricolor ensembles take their place in the fashion picture. pic-ture. Silhoutees are free with gentle, gen-tle, high shaping which allows the body freedom. Shaping is not the only high point in feminine fem-inine dress. Hemlines retain their high level with knees still in sight. Some designers feature hemlines inches above the knee. The youth influence abounds this season. Although not restricted re-stricted to a particular age group, there is a sense of newness new-ness and adventure in fashions which can be attributed only to the young influence. It's the year of the dress as it replaces the suit in importance. Here again the influence of youth can be seen in featured styles. Smocks in many forms and proportions find their way to the forefront. They are completely com-pletely at ease with or without with-out sleeves and sport straight or archer yokes. Chemise and .trapeze styles blaze in with "the roaring twenties" look which finds skirt movement a must for the contemporary female. Chemise dresses are often found hiding under slightly fitted coats. The coat dress takes on added significance as more emphasis em-phasis is placed on the dress. 1 The swing to spring is with, new, soft simplicity which puts focus on fabrics and colors. Popping Pop-ping up like spring flowers are cottons of two varieties refined re-fined and elegant or gay and carefree. Smith cottons are the freshest but texture is still in evidence although more subtly executed. Surface interest often comes through contrast as lark on pale, or textured areas alternated with smooth. Cotton voiles achieve that important im-portant transparent look with coolness and femininity. Sometimes Some-times in misty solids, but more often in prints these soft little sheers are leading contenders for queens rank among fabrics. Fabrics may be heavier but appear lighter, thanks to more interesting weaves. Leno stripes, . , , lattlcs work patterns, homespun lenos, terrazo tweeds, floating checks and plaid ottomans prove that novel constructions hold their own in any season. Airy cotton knits are on hand for the changing seasons. Crochet Cro-chet popcorn, and lacy knits breeze into fashion focus in dresses, blouses, stockings, and sportswear particularly suited to the ladp-on-the-go. At nature blossoms out in a profusion of spring colors, fabrics fab-rics appear most often in black and white. However, when solors challenge, they are clear and bright. Anything goes as long as |