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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Fabulous Fabrics, Full Skirts Are Predictions for Fall Spanish Influence ' - 4 i ' 4K! New Fall and Winter clothes will show considerable Spanish influence, as evidenced by this elaborate neckline treatment. Rich braiding combines with velvet to give a sumptuous look to the gown, but shoulders are bared less than in previous seasons, sea-sons, another new fashion feature. Suits are still being shown in many of the collections, but other fashions seem more important. These include the tailored street dress, the coat dress and the dress and jacket. If the wardrobe already contains several sev-eral suits, it would be wiser, if you want to have a new look, to have one or two of these other types as the new purchase. Matching fabrics and colors featured fea-tured in clothes also contribute to the one-piece look which will be important. Trimmings and linings used on suits add their bit to the unity of impression which many of the costumes cos-tumes have. Both of these, of course, help to keep the skirts full and add a good deal of interest to the full sleeve treatments which are so prominent. Strong Period Influence Seen in Fashions Recurring Spanish themes are evident evi-dent in many of the new clothes seen, just as it was last year. Sometimes Some-times these give a literal period look, while others are more freely translated. Spanish grandeur in decoration is an important feature in many clothes, and for this reason, jet, beading, passementerie, tassels and elaborate braid-work are prominent. Bold Spanish contrasts in color are used a great deal, and this, accounts ac-counts for the use of black, white and red. Also Spanish in influence are the toreador capes, sashes and square fringed shawls. The other strong period influence apparent in the new fashions is English, En-glish, dating from 1815. In England this was known as the Regency period, while in France it was called the Restoration. Sleeves are "Regency," "Reg-ency," and they are puffed and folded fold-ed on both dresses and coats. "Inside" Interest Reflected in Fashions Look inside when you buy a dress or coat, for there's bound to be a surprise in it for you. Colorful brocades bro-cades are being used to line both jacket and skirt of many suits. Jeweled dresses are hidden under sober, untrimmed coats of wool or velvet. Dresses for Fall and Winter have become architectural marvels of inside engineering and "blind" handiwork with tailor's canvas, buckram, horsehair, crinoline and taffeta used as an armature for the silhouette. Softness next to the skin is emphasized em-phasized in facings of velvet or satin on collars and sleeves. Bright petticoat ruffles and hem facings flash everywhere, even inside coat hems. Colors, Necklines To Be Conservative First choice in colors in most collections col-lections include black, brown and navy, with colors deep and jewel-rich. jewel-rich. Certain shades of red are being featured, too, but they are never gaudy, ranging in shade from a ball of fire to garnet. There's much leeway in blues, too, the range being from winter navy to moonstone, with peacock and sapphire shades strong in influence. in-fluence. Copper and light taupe will be important. By Ertta Haley WHAT'S new in Fall and Winter fashions always excites the greatest curiosity and attention among women even before the summer sum-mer is over. While days are still warm and lazy, and more than one afternoon has been spent relaxing in the heat, it's interesting to think of cooler days, perhaps, and plan the wardrobe. Big news again this year, as last, is fabric. It is indeed the focal point of every costume, and there are many interesting aspects to the fashion picture just from the point of view of fabric alone. Fabulous brocaded silks are high fashion news, and are possibly surpassed sur-passed only by one other item: dozens doz-ens of astonishing wool textures. All of the woolens being shown are thick, many are downy, others are shaggy or hairy. This is in direct contrast to the years when the sheerest sheer-est of woolens made such big news. Examples of the new woolens include in-clude baby blanket woolens now being be-ing used in the smartest dresses, reversible re-versible tweed and wool mixtures, poodle cloth, feather cloth and lion's hair. Tweeds which have always been countrified now become citified with the aid of silky cashmere weaves and sophisticated handling. Flannel has taken on a satin finish, woolens have been frosted or crisped with silk. Silk faille, always before so heavy and crisp, has gone soft with new treatment and has a very sumptuous quality with the new technique. Cottons Cot-tons are being featured for Winter and are making fashion news, too. Suit outlines which in general remain re-main slender, will have counterpoint for interest and temperate shoulders with rounded hips and a flat as a pasteboard box look both in back and in front. For coats, suits and dresses as well, sleeves will be full. Styles currently cur-rently being shown include full types like the puffed up, folded or leg of mutton types. There's a new forward slant being featured in the armhole, too, and this is combined with a slight fullness full-ness at the top of the sleeves which gives a faint, but pretty shrug to the top of the dress or suit when it does not actually feature the really big sleeves. In daytime dresses, you'll be seeing see-ing long, tight sleeves which button to the elbow, a feature which we have not seen in fashions for some time. Long, full sleeves could well be expected with full skirts, but n-n I New dresses shout fur trimmings . . Taffeta and velvet, usual Fall and Winter stand-bys, are being replaced re-placed with the shine of satin this new season. This in itself leads the way for a completely different fashion fabric picture. Fuller Skirts, Bigger Sleeves Forecast for Fall If you are one of those women who prefer the full skirt to the slender, straight and narrow styles, then this will be the season for you. Skirts will be more full than we have seen them before. "Whirling" is the adjective that can best be used to describe them. Surprise materials such as tweed, wool jersey and broadcloth are being be-ing used in skirts especially to make them look more full than even designing de-signing can do. Then, too, petticoats will be important im-portant as they, too, are designed to give them fullness that designing and material do not already accomplish. ac-complish. Winter crinolines will be important in the fashion picture. and full, layered skirts. one of the surprises in the picture comes with full sleeves in the princess prin-cess or fitted silhouette. One-Piece Look Outranks "Separates" Theme It you've been wearing many separates sep-arates for Spring and Summer, get ready to discard them in favor of the one-piece look which will be important im-portant in the new fashions. |