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Show Designers Make Clever Use Of Tassels, Bows and Buttons By CHERIE NICHOLAS - 1 . - x i v i 8 . . i v ' ' i j I f" X v " N s r - - k f - - x I 4 x-'xV i : I ? . V' ; jpr ? j '. , ! V I X - x - ' ' j ; -fC I i roun(3. This type of hat is really "I7"ATCH tassels! Tassels are the big news in the trimming realm. Any sort of a tassel, just so. it's a tassel, say designers. The tassel tas-sel or tassels that trim your hat, your belt, your handbag, your dress or your blouse may be short or long, tiny or immense. They may be of silken strands or cords, of dangling beads, of wool yarn or "what have you" that gives a tassel look. The belt that is tassel-embellished is turning out to be one of the "hit" fashions of the season. Designers have now discovered that there's rhythm between the new pencil-slim silhouette (announced as "what's what" In smart "lines") and long graceful tassels used in a trimming way. The exquisitely ladylike patrician-styled dress, shown to the right in the illustration, makes a fringe-tasseled belt its piece de resistance. re-sistance. Note how beautifully this dress is tailored and stitched into lines of grace. The plain bodice and high neckline are a perfect background back-ground for jewels. The felt cartwheel cart-wheel hat is color matched to the duck green wool that fashions the dress The attractive tassel - trimmed dress to the left is done in a fine rayon weave in that very new smoke gray shade that's going over big this season for hats, coats, dresses and furs The smartly tasseled belt is the only adornment. The hat is of velvet with butterfly feelers adding add-ing a pert note. The gold floral ornament or-nament is a floral of unusual beauty. Milliners are showing a definite liking for tassels. Long ones are apt to dangle from many a crown and when they do they fall to the shoulder most nonchalantly and with utmost flattery Then there are the tiny little pillboxes and the berets that are curtained with tiny tassels, either silken or of jet all the way round. This type of hat is really among the show pieces in millinery displays! Tassels also dangle from frog fastenings, and as lapel ornaments in connection with applique braid novelties, nov-elties, and with jewelry pieces they are playing an attractive role. You'll see tassels adorning gloves and adding interest to handbags. Tassels Tas-sels are indeed having their big moment mo-ment in connection with smart winter fashions. If it isn't buttons then it's bows that add the touch that tells to current cur-rent fashions. In the instance of the suit centered in the group, ultra ul-tra chic is achieved via both button and bow strategy. Buttons will be buttons, but when they are large and important looking and when they are placed on the slant, as they are on the suit pictured, they give one a new outlook on smart fashion as they dramatize the side fastening of the skirt and the diagonal line of the jacket The bow treatment at the neck is as interesting as the buttons that fasten this stylish two-piece. The looped satin bows are arranged so as to give a broad-shouldered look that will accent the slim hips by way of contrast. It didn't seem possible pos-sible that more bows would be seen this season than ever, but here they are, myriads of them, in the style picture. You'll see bows at beltless waistlines, bow-tie blouses, bows under un-der the chin, some tailored, others fluttering like huge butterfly wings. Particularly in evidence are immense im-mense bows of taffeta or wide black lace placed at the base of the lowcut square necklines. It's a good plan to keep a stock of bows on hand. You will find several bows of wide black velvet ribbon a real .asset when you want to put a finishing touch to a simple basic dress. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |
