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Show Witchery of Black Lace Lends New Glamor to Summer Fashions By CHERIE NICHOLAS CUMMER fashions are playing up the witchery of black lace in most unique and fascinating ways. It is with consummate art that designers de-signers are creating eye-thrilling effects ef-fects with lace that is injecting new beauty into the current style picture, pic-ture, such as the lovely-lady New York costumes in the accompanying illustration - convey. The stunning model to the right represents a most outstanding new theme, that of trimming summer print frocks with frilly black lace edging. In this instance black lace edges the all-in-one sleeves and gives the skirt a prettily feminine apron effect. The print itself is oeige for the background, with a black plume motif. The supremacy of black lace in the summer mode is also given emphasis in the handsome hand-some black hat, the lace-laden brim of which carries out the theme of the costume. Matching lace gloves add exquisite finesse to the ensemble. ensem-ble. The vogue for lace manifests itself it-self in endless entrancing ways. One place where black lace is at its prettiest pret-tiest is in the new short-length black gowns that are superbly styled for cocktail or dinner-party wear. The ultra styled dress shown to the left Is just such. Here the designer creates cre-ates the bodice with a checker-board effect of black lace with crepe, the graceful peplum being entirely of the same exquisite film. The skirt is very narrow, which together with the tapered-in waist and the flaring peplum achieves a striking silhouette. silhou-ette. The charming lily-of-the-valley confection that adorns milady's smartly coiffed hair is the chapeau-tdeal chapeau-tdeal to wear with this lovely lace-with-crepe costume. If you make your own pretty clothes here's a suggestion for a costume cos-tume that you'll take joy in wearing to dress-up occasions the whole summer sum-mer through. Choose for material one of the very lovely black-on-pink-ground prints. Make it up just as simply as you please, finishing off the low neckline and brief sleeves with frilly black lace edgings. Use lace also on the skirt as pocket detail de-tail or to finish off a side drape as fancy may dictate. Your hat should pick up the pink of the print either by placing a rose on your black wide brim or by wearing a devastating devastat-ing little pink flower chapeau with a pink rose at your waistline for glamor glam-or plus. It's good style too to accessorize the summer costume with all sorts of pretty lace fantasies. A favorite ensemble includes hat, gloves and bag of black lace. Then there are the dressy black lace dickeys, some of which have lacy black jabots. These are modish with the new black linen town suits or those of dressier black faille, and they are also tres chic worn with the suit of gay print. A bolero of black lace will prove a treasured possession, for it can be used so effectivelv in transforminff a simple frock into a gown for dress-up wear. Your bare-back beach dress of black linen or black-eyeleted black-eyeleted material changes into a charming informal dance frock topped with one of these black lace separates. For more formal wear, a peplum blouse of black lace with either ei-ther a short black skirt or one of floor length solves the "what to wear" problem to perfection. As to black lace lingerie, the demand de-mand is beyond the supply. Black lace lavished on black slips and gowns and negligees is the last word in chic. The costume slip in lacy black becomes a necessary luxury to wear with the popular black sheer frocks this summer. Released by Western Newspaper Union, |
