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Show College Girl Fashions Stress Contrasting, Versatile 'Tops' By CHERIE NICHOLAS Sri P 1 s J, " . ' 1 " h 'j- I 5 , ' ; V I I I . Swv I ! i FASHION is playing a game. It's contrast "tops." Here's how. You buy one or two or more smart skirts. Follow this up with a wardrobe of contrasting "tops" and you win a clothes collection that will carry you through with a smashing style record rec-ord as you travel in campus environs envi-rons and at all the football games you have dated in advance on your fall program. For that lasting "first impression" at college you will go down in history vain gloriously as a smart dresser if you wear a costume as pictured to the left in the group illustrated. il-lustrated. Evelyn Allen designs this versatile jacket dress with a gay check-printed velveteen top contrasting contrast-ing a youthful flaring skirt. Note the shirred pockets and bishop sleeves. If you take the jacket off and wear your skirt with your new sweaters and blouses, you will be voted among the best dressed of all campus cam-pus trotters. Centered in the group is another contrast-top costume by the same designer. This softly tailored frock of gay plaid with its interesting bell sleeve and its contrasting skirt will put you at the head of your class so far as fashion is concerned, and it will keep you there. A two-piece frock such as this is liable to prove the talk o' town for months to come. Fashion is playing up with great success the idea of the one-piece dress that looks like a two-piece. Nice thing about this contrast-top vogue is that it goes easy on the clothes budget. You can collect a whole bevy of "tops" without spending spend-ing a fortune, and with judicious interchanging in-terchanging you can dress up or down to any occasion. One of the neatest tricks brought out in way of contrast tops is the new waist-depth pinafore top that you slip jumper-fashion jumper-fashion over a simple blouse. It has wide shoulder straps that are brought down to the back where they tie at the waist in a pert bow exactly ex-actly as a little girl's pinafore ties. You can buy these little pinafore tops made of plaid taffeta at most stores. For the school-going girl who must keep a date they are a real "find." Slip it in your school-bag school-bag or brief case so you can dash it on in a jiffy and look dressed up quick as a flash of lightning. You will also be wanting one of the new gay suede vests. With your jacket suit they are "tops" in fashion. fash-ion. Wear it with the new velveteen suit, add a matching suede hat, and it will surely make a "hit" in any grandstand spectator group. And here is a style hint that any girl of fashion aspirations cannot afford to let go unheeded. It's in regard to the clever new blouses that are made like shirts. They are made of all sorts of fabrics, and are cut like boys' arid men's shirts. Gabardine Gab-ardine is the safest choice for active ac-tive sports wear, although washable broadcloth is a close second. The smart dress to the right in the picture is an apt demonstration. It merited spontaneous applause recently re-cently at the National Wash Apparel style revue held in Chicago. It is of the popular shirtwaist persuasion. The checked blouse top, seamed to the skirt, has a yoke front and back. Acorn buttons are placed down the front opening and on the pockets of the monotone skirt. Here is an ideal dress for go-to-school wear and it will prove a favorite standby for informal in-formal dating. You can get this very charming dress in handsome navy or sparkling wine. You can get these shirts in wool, tailored as manlike as your heart desires. The idea is to choose a wool in color to blend or match your tweed suit, or, if you prefer, play up a contrast You will surely be wanting a white jersey shirt. A wool homespun also will not come amiss, for the new homespuns are delight-somely delight-somely sheer. They are "comfy" on very first cool days and ever so good-looking. Sheer wool with drawn threadwork is just beginning to be shown in the shirt and blouse sections. sec-tions. Released by Western Newspaper Union.) |
