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Show Linen Suit a Midsummer Favorite By CHERIE NICHOLAS ?- X f i ' V;' . P' f ffi it t i- ; V fi -4" , riz: 1$ I 'pHE present vogue for linen Is i. nothing short of sensational. Whether you go dining, dancing swimming, flying, motoring, golfing or shopping, or play tennis, there's a linen for every occasion from rustic rus-tic crashes and peasant weaves and colorful Tahitian prints to alluring novelties In stripes and plaids and in sheer lovely effects for high-style high-style evening wear. Midsummer days are proving that linen suits, especially in white and natural tones, are of first Interest In-terest among best dressed women for about-town wear. Just now, while the weather Is warm, it's the white and natural linens that are lending their Immaculate Im-maculate and well-groomed appearance appear-ance to the summer scene. The trio of stunning suits pictured represent repre-sent the very creme de la crerue in linens as now featuring on the style program. The young woman seated shows that she knows fashion in that with her suit of moygashel linen, in natural color, she is wearing a dark blouse, the same being brown with white polka dots. You are doing the right thing this season If to wear with your white and natural linens you choose dark accessories. The coat ls single breasted with buttons all the way up to the col-larless col-larless neckline. The other two suits are also of moygashel linen. It ls rather Inter estlng to know In this connection that King George sends the flax grown on his royal estate at Sand rlngham, England (supposed to be the finest flax in the world) to Moygashel, Moy-gashel, Ireland, there to be woven because the workmanship Is so fine quite a royal pedigree for these linens. The two-piece centered In the group has a tight-fitting basque coat with no belt to disturb the natural line. It ls of white linen with navy buttons and tie. The double binding to the coat which gives a vestee effect is new and smart The sports flap pockets are chic, too. Handstitching around the notched collar and the pockets gives a distinctive dis-tinctive touch to the white linen suit to the right. The stitching and the belt are In matched coloring. color-ing. The coat Is double-breasted, and a polka dot shirt is worn under un-der It. A very fashionable thing to do ls wear a bright colored linen coat or jacket with your white linen skirt. Lilac colored linens for these coats are the rage with beetroot or Dubonnet Du-bonnet red close seconds. Then, too, novelty linens with nubby surface or loose porous weave are In good style for suits and for coats. These heavier suits are mostly In oyster white. Very "nifty" ones are shadow-checked In gray and some stunning weaves are in herringbone patterning flecked with brown. There are lovely embroidered linens lin-ens shown for dressier wear and sheer striped linens are made up Into fascinating evening gowns, as lf they were stately silks. With the new fall tweed suits designers are creating clever blouses of fine handkerchief linens In colorings re lated to the costume entire. Western Newspaper Union. |