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Show WOMEN'S STYLE IDEAS STARTLING Winter Modes in Ultra Smart Shops Include "Lovely Pants" By l.ABBK i REEVES, International Nem St-rvlce Staff Correal i id nU LONDON. The classic "Perils of I'aulin"--' were not more involved In complications than have been the advance ad-vance discussions on the fall and winter win-ter styles As in the classic P of P. each day has brought forward some new entanglement. en-tanglement. Those experts who scout and purvey io the faithful the ' straight dope," have put their finger on the j mystery and said. "BehoJd' These are the winter styles." I This they have done time and again. j day after day And always with a different "these" under their finger There has bfen no "straight dope. ' Nobody knows. But now, perhaps, we have It. A woman can wear practically what she likes, so long as she looks nice And Some of them arc- going to wear 1 pants This Is no Idle talk. Nor 1? It a rehash re-hash of the war garb of womankind, land girls and what not. This is straight from the well-known feedbox Pants for women are to be fashionable. At Luclle's up in the hundred guinea West End fashion-making or Parls-fashlon-copying district, one, may refer to th innovation as a Parls-fashlon-copying district, one may refer to the Innovation as a "trouser( fffect " But. after all, politically and financially, women are wearing 'he pants. Why balk at the short ana uglier word just because Lucila'l Is a dove-colored soft-voiced emporium of the very rich and presumably cultured. cul-tured. "Our Special Representative." writing writ-ing in the Evening Standard. Is a learned scout for the fashion followers follow-ers The testimony follows "Just as tho ordinary person reallv had begun to feel that he or she had quite a clear notion of the right kind of clothes, along come gowns with real trousers none of your make-believe substitutes and skirts that look Uko a succession of mlnareta ' And of one such, this Intimate description: de-scription: "Real ehlc can be achieved In a skirt of green and silver brocade that finishes Its career from tho knee downward in a pair of tight-fitting breaches .iuet like those known as 'Jodhpurs.' " Most assuredly everybody knows "Jodhpurs" "Even more effective Is scarlet velvet, vel-vet, similarly treated as to extremities, extremi-ties, bound with green velvet and draped with sp;mgled purple chiffon "But don't run away with the notion no-tion that trousers are compulsory, or wide hips either, for that matter. Banish also the fear that if your ankles an-kles are not as good as they might bo they must be exhibited to the critical criti-cal gaze of an unsympathetic world. Luclle sanctions gowns that sweep tho floor and cling so affectionately to the figure that one wonders how the wearer moves. Movement would, in fact, be almost impossible If it wro not for convenient slits affording enchanting glimpses of foundations of chiffon and gold lace and similar iove-llnesH." iove-llnesH." So, you see. wear anything you like, Including pants. 00 |