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Show r - i Dame Fashion Smiles By Grace Jewett Austin Jut lately Daine Fashion made up this little rhyme about "Miss Up-to-Pnte," which really includes a good many of the new kinks of fashion: I hope you will admire my chic printed frock; It dips and it sways but It ne'er gives a ahoclc. , My knee-s are forgotten; I'm dignity'. book; j Sly print-leather purge has an opulent I look. See the ripple of ruffleg, my glrdl. .o wide; See the drapery droop at my back or my side. See my boat-shaped neck where flat necklaces ride; My hose has soft color; light pump aid my stride. I'm a rose of the valley, a sign of the spring, While my hat, don't forget, ha. a veil like a wing. Perhaps, besides tier print-leather purse this maiden may have a small -na. g o i d-e in b osseel W ' v ' V" bound book In t' ' ( 1 her hand, but' It y will not do to be e y sure she is bound f for church, tor f . rm ' the newejtol , f ' . ' J vanity cases, all v J fitted wltb fra il " grant powder, Hat- Hi ' tering mirror and ' , I rose-petal color, y-.t.,'. ,. ., are now made to look so much llk Grace J. Austin. nttle books tbat they would deceive a public librarian. In music there are so many beautiful beauti-ful Isinds, with varying volume. There may be one sweet air, like "Trau-tnerel" "Trau-tnerel" ; a great solo, like one by Rachmaninoff, or an Intricate overture, over-ture, such as "Poet and Peasant." It is quite precisely the same experience expe-rience of mind when one studies the springtime shops. Perhaps one stops for a long time before one bright red visca hat, studying its curves and shape; looking at a black spring coat with tawny fur collar, or admiring one gauzy chiffon gown witli.. Its dipping drapery points" 'almost to the floor. These are "airs." Then perhaps yon will survey a whole department. Dame Fashion delights de-lights In the thought that In these days it Is just as much a recognized fact that beauty should be bought as potatoes and pounds of steak. So perhaps per-haps it will be a department where you will touch gentle creams, gaze at marvel perfumes In their Paris containers, con-tainers, and touch with cautious fingers fin-gers a compact as choice as a jewel. Such a department is a genuine "solo," with just one "motif." Nothing, better expresses an overture over-ture than the modern gift shop, wltb creations of a thousand moods and an expressions of every race on the globe. You say to your neighbor, "Hmv beautiful !" just as you might breathe It If you were listening to a master conduct a symphony orchestra. Some travelers from abroad have declared they prefer these American gift shops to those of Paris. And no duties to worry about I ((c). 1928. Western Newspaper Onion.) |