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Show Fall Daytime Fashions Are Type American Women Love to Wear By CHERIE NICHOLAS ' ? , ' J P "' v'AX :'!-'''a' ' - i - ( -M 'Sp 0 0M ' ; hi: 'wA."i "&'Mf ww f ti a, fy JtmrJ'rr ' ) ' X yi 1 '4 , 4 y y;suF TT WOULD seem this year that American designers are breaking all previous records in creating the best looking clothes ever for smart all-around daytime wear. Made of sterling quality flannels, checks, gabardines, jerseys, homespun weaves and such, they have that thoroughbred look about them, yet styled as they are, with a sophisticated sophisti-cated simplicity that bespeaks "class," they are just the type American women love to wear. College and career girls needs must have clothes that are as good looking as the best of 'em together with a practicality that assures dependable de-pendable wearableness. This fall you will be delighted with the smooth and distinctive styling given to even the simplest daytime suits and dresses. The fashions from New York Dress Institute collections, here pictured, pic-tured, go to show what a treat is in store for you if you are looking for "style," quality and serviceability. To the right see a co-ed's dream, by the co-ed's favorite designer, Claire McCardell. This suit illustrates three of this top-flight designer's important im-portant trends in her current collections. collec-tions. They are the fitted "frontier" jacket with quaint leg-o' -mutton sleeves, the new curve-line wrap around skirt with definite fullness, and thirdly, the frontier hip pockets, giving a new widened line to the hips. This three-piece combines stunning gray 'flannel with zephyr knit in gray, black and white check. The buttons are silver, decorated with heraldic emblems. The suit is double stitched in black thread around the edges and the arm holes. The smartly styled dress to the left tunes perfectly to the current fashion mood for classically simple clothes. It is outstanding because of the designer's novel and graceful manipulation of the self-fabric in way of the medieval-inspired "almoner" "al-moner" bag, ingeniously suspended from the waistline. Centuries ago bags of this type were carried Dy official dispensers of alms. In its modernized version this bag fits into the scheme of present-day fashion fash-ion with high distinction. The deep armhole sleeves lend a definite note of chic. The new "rave" this season sea-son is to wear handsome gold or silver jewelry with dresses of sophisticated sophis-ticated simplicity. Ideal is this gray crepe gown as a background for important jewelry pieces. The diagonally closed bodice, the. new rounded shoulderline and fluid sleeve treatment ae styling points that combine to achieve the "new look" for the neat daytime dress centered in the picture. Black and white check wool in homespun weave is the material used. The selvedge edge of the fabric gives smart contrast. The extreme simplicity sim-plicity of this dress is typical of the fashions that best-dressed women wom-en are selecting for practical daytime day-time wear. For smart day fashions, gay little dresses are being made of a multicolored multi-colored narrow stripe jersey, which also works up charmingly in attractive attrac-tive two-piece jacket-with-skirt costumes. cos-tumes. Bold contrast achieved with using jersey in three or more colors col-ors is played up in striking ways also. Vivid scarlet wool jackets with brass buttons are worn with neutral tweed skirts, or with sleek classroom dresses made of the now-so-modish gray flannels. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |