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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Fashion Forecast for Spring Includes Little That's New By Ertta Haley . 1 1 Grey Chiffon i WHEN YOU START looking at the new spring clothes, the first idea which wiH come to you is that nothing very new has been added to the fashion pioture. There is only more elaboration of details which we have already seen. This will come as a welcome surprise sur-prise to those of you who want to get along on a limited clothes budget. budg-et. Since skirt lengths are about the same as last year, that means you don't have to run out and buy all new dresses and coats. Furthermore, those of you who were able to buy only a basic wardrobe, ward-robe, can now add some of the trimmings which give you the well groomed look. You might like to add a new hand bag, new shoes and perhaps a scattering of pins to your costume. Smart Fabrics, Exquisite Handwork are Featured You will be Impressed by the Sheer beauty of fabrics this season sea-son like never before. There are perfectly wonderful linens, heavy, luxurious satins, real silk in solid colors or excellent prints, and then the soft sheer fabrics like chiffon which Is a very important part of the fashion picture. The woolens which you'll be seeing see-ing in suits and coats are also mate- This full-skirted pale grey silk chiffon afternoon dress, worn over a matching color crepe slip," Is from the spring collection collec-tion of a New York designer. Below-elbow sleeves are cut in one with the bodice, detailed with a small buttoned collar. The waistline Is elasticized and girdled with a bronze leather belt. Bach fullness is smart . . . rials which will make you sigh with delight. They are beautifully woven and in stunning colors. Really sleek and silky gabardines that can show tailoring to perfection perfec-tion are as handsome as it's possible possi-ble to be. Exquisite handwork is featured on much of the clothing. You'll be seeing a lot of it on the new blouses In the form of magniHoiently embroidered em-broidered collars, cuffs and blouse front. On dresses it shows off best on the new portrait neckline as well as the bodice and sometimes on the cuffs. There is something so rich an utterly feminine about handwork in i Necklines are pretty. combination with good materials that you won't want to miss an opportunity to have something of it in your wardrobe. It can, however, how-ever, be carried out without showing show-ing anything fussy. If you're making a linen blouse for a suit, this is an ideal fabric on which to use the handwork. When properly applied, the blouse will still look as tailored as it should for a suit. Neckline Interest Shown Currently Probably the most outstanding feature of the newest clothes is the importance attached to the neckline. neck-line. Bared necklines, even in the most strictly casual wear, are featured. fea-tured. Necklines can take the form of gently rounded curve or they may be deep and plunging such as are featured on many of the new blouses. On others, neckline Interest Inter-est may be displayed with what is known as the portrait type, which means the neckline is outlined with a highly decorative flounce. On the beach dresses which ywi'll be buying now or later, you're most apt to run into the strapless variety. These dresses, however, often come with a bolero or stole with which you can cover up, if desired. Choose Silhouette Most Flattering This year you may choose the silhouette sil-houette most flattering to you. The full-skirted look is still with us, but then, too, there's the slim-tailored variety, and several o t h e r s i in-between in-between those two. The full-skirted look can be very slimming, you'll discover, especially espe-cially when it's carried out in a soft, sheer material like chiffon. Softly gathered at the waist, it falls in gracious folds that seem to hug the figure. Skirts on suits are usually slend-der slend-der and tailored, but since they're still thirteen to fourteen inches from the floor, some show slits or back fullness which will make it simple for you to board cars, busses or streetcars. Most formal dresses are longer than those worn in the daytime, but the ankle-length formal is still the most popular. Rounded Shoulders Are Essential The stiff-looking artificial shoulders shoul-ders which we started seeing some time ago have gradually disappeared, disap-peared, and fortunately, too! They have no place in a fashion world which highlights beauty and feminity, femi-nity, v ' In the really high-priced dresses, no shoulder pads are used. If you do have them, make certain they are small and cleverly concealed. In other words, use pading to give a nice round line, but have it done so carefully that no one realizes you're wearing pads. Coats Use Plenty Of Materials Most of the coats seen currently are long and full, whether they're of the belted variety or princess style or fitted. If they're full length, that is, coming to the dress hemline, hem-line, they're bound to use a lot of material. Because of the lovely rich fabrics fab-rics used on coats, you'll be amazed at some of the lovely details in tailoring. These features have often been used in the past, but it takes a good material to show them up to full advantage. Be Smart! One of the features of the Empire Em-pire waistline is the opportunity it gives for a new type of decoration. deco-ration. Newest is the use of scatter pins, many times larger than those worn on your shoulder, shoul-der, so large in fact, that usually one is all you'U want. Very narrow belts are much favored. For sheer wools and those classic dresses of spun rayen, you'll like the ever-so-smart cord belts, many of which are leather. For soft dresses, there's a newer style: lace-like, Jeweled belts that look much like the highly ornamental necklaces neck-laces you've been wearing. |
