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Show Fashion-Wise Women Take Up Crocheting With Real Zest By CHERIE NICHOLAS mI j, - C L -. - f - - V ' ' I w- J A V Iff " '- i ' c I ? INv " d )) v t- ' Hi ;r- 4 v ill V '-Vfi' fl 1 V'"'' WHEN you pick up your news- f I paper these days, or flip I i jf' ' ($ through the pages of your favorite 1 ?! , WHEN you pick up your newspaper news-paper these days, or flip through the pages of your favorite magazine, more often than not you'll see pictures of stage, radio and motion picture stars, college girls, club women and debutantes, all busy at a new hobby crocheting! crochet-ing! A crocheting fad is sweeping the country. Crochet hooks are being wielded by busy fingers from Maine to California, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. The vogue has taken such hold that nowadays now-adays when a deb reaches into her handbag, it's probably for a crochet hook rather than a lipstick. Mind you, it's not just the home girls interested in housewifely arts who are crocheting. This time it's the college girls whose campus-bound campus-bound trunks, returning from midwinter mid-winter homecomings, fairly bulged with unfinished sweaters and blouses and accessory items into which, no doubt, they will be putting put-ting the final stitches in the lecture room, pacing busy hands to busy minds. In the city thoroughfares it's the debutantes who are crocheting crochet-ing in taxicabs speeding to and ro in their round of social engagements. engage-ments. Stage and radio stars are at it too, while they wait their cues, all of which means that crocheting has definitely reached the glamour stage. That crochet has come "in" as Crocheted jewelry is another unique item, especially the lei flower flow-er necklace with bracelet to match. The idea of stiffly-starched small crochet wings worn in the hair has spread like wildfire. Young girls are especially like these wings because be-cause it takes only a jiffy to make them and they are different and much more interesting than the traditional tra-ditional ribbon bows they have been wearing. A miniature crochet shawl to complete a sweater and plaid-skirt plaid-skirt outfit is another favorite "accessory. "ac-cessory. At exciting style prevues for spring the emphasis on crochet fashions fash-ions is unmistakable. Ideas are such that clever women at home will be quick to add crocheted items to their own wardrobes. For example, ex-ample, insets of crochet in triangles, trian-gles, squares or circles, also yoke tops, add style touches to the new pastel wool frocks. Pockets and belts of crochet and jackets with crocheted sleeves bespeak the high-style high-style significance of this new vogue for handwork. Milliners are on the alert, too. They are making snug crochet turbans tur-bans with dramatic twists and drapes of crochet to give front height. The white crochet hat at the top of the left in the illustration illustra-tion has gone patriotic in that an American eagle spreads its wings in a gay crochet motif. To the right (above) a casual wide-brimmed hat has its crown embellished with an applique of floral crochet done in green cotton thread. The smart crocheted cro-cheted pillbox hat shown below has a close-fitting snood for anchorage and "style." (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) a style or nign importance is Dig news from the fashion angle. The famous designer Schiaparelli may be back of it all, for when she arrived ar-rived some months ago on the Atlantic At-lantic clipper she wore a crocheted collar, crocheted gloves and listen to this crocheted stockings! The latter were very smart looking and created a sensation because of their unusualness. |