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Show Fancy Finery Draws Frowns Vhen Vorn By Czech Women PRAGUE. Fancy finery is a hazard to the Czech woman nowadays now-adays as the local national committee com-mittee has made it plain that It frowns on frippery fineries for its female compatriots, And, after thinking twice about wearing such togs, the woman usually decides to put on her oldest and plainest dress and let the smartly-tailored clothes of another day gather dust In the closet. ' Most Czech women live by this rule now: "If you want to stay clear of Informers In-formers denouncing you for exorbitant ex-orbitant living, lock ud vour finery and keep your clothes drab." The Czech woman remembers only too well the many cases where wearers of expensive clothes have been accused of living above their means and by implication dealing in black market currency. They have been punished or severely sever-ely admonished by the local national na-tional committee. So whether she likes it or not the ayerage Czech woman conforms to the "popular" fashion. This year's winter style is a dark colored coat, slacks, high felt or leather boots and a scarf wrapped around her head. This combination may look well on tall, slim women but is not particularly suited to the Slav figure fig-ure of broad hip and cheek bones. Scarves have a long tradition in this country, being part of many peasant national costumes, but city women have never taken kindly to them, The assumption of power by the Communists has much to do with scarf wearing, npt only because they look proletarian but because Communist women wear red scarves at demonstrations and meetings. The fashion of wearing slacks is in great measure a result of the new marriage and family laws which guarantee women complete equality with men. Czech fashions as represented In domestic magazines are simple and tasteful if not too original, Put there is a great difference between what is shown in the fashion magazines mag-azines and what actually ii sold in th shops. |