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Show Woman's World Spring Accessories Reflect New Trend Toward Femininity By Ertta Haley TT'VEN if you have to remodel your dresses and coats for the season, sea-son, you won't be able to resist some of the new accessories. They're designed to delight the womanly wom-anly heart for they're as gay, light and feminine as you please. Those of you who are older will delight In their lovely old-fashioned look because It will remind you of younger days. Those of you too young to remember other fashions and other days will adore their picture-book loveliness. There are hats for every face and every fashion, there are billowy white, crisp blouses that smell of soap and water freshness and shoes that are slenderizing and dainty. Gloves Will Match Colors of Rainbow New gloves In every color of the rainbow give a bright promise to the fashion outlook for spring. Not only are leather gloves being shown in the traditional white and pastels, but in all shades and variations varia-tions of reds, blues, greens and browns. The early forecast favors butter yellow, Balenciaga tan and beige. Yellow should be particularly particular-ly good with navy outfits, perennial season favorite. Pastel pink and biue, bright red, gold and purple are expected to be preferred colors. All shades will come in doeskin, suede and glace. In line with the general trend in fashion now called the "Right Look" American leather glove manufacturers have designed gloves to make the hand smooth, pretty and feminine. They are soft and dressy with slim lines. Fresh white gloves will, as always, al-ways, step out ahead in the fashion card yours, if you have one, in favor of the more feminine pouch types being favored. Hose still remain dark, but there are some pastel hose coming to be used with light prints. A lovely pink shade is being shown as well as some shades of green and blue, but these latter two are rather dark. The really dark shades are favorites -with suits. Daintiness, Femininity Mark New Footwear Shoes are dainty and feminine, according to the forecast. Lines in shoes are long and slender with graceful heels and Intricate ornamentation. orna-mentation. Generally speaking footwear foot-wear has climbed higher as hemlines hem-lines have fallen. If you're conservative, choose the simple, unadorned pump with closed heels and toes. You'll find no stubby stub-by toed shoes, for this is the season for tapering toelines. If your foot is long and built to carry a lot of shoe, wear shoes built high on the instep. There are multi-colored effects, two-tone or ombre shading and shoes with more than one texture to break the length. To slenderize the ankles, you may wear the high-riding vogues mem-tioned mem-tioned above. Pumps and ties that climb high about the ankle also achieve this effect. The bottee fashion fash-ion is good, and the new slenderizing slenderiz-ing lasts are good for the ankle. A narrow forefront, achieved from tapering or pointed toes also helps give the illusion of all-over slender-ness. slender-ness. Be Cautious in Wearing Ankle Strap Shoes Unless you have slim and beautiful beauti-ful ankles, do not buy ankle strap shoes. But if you do have them, you may wear them for they are high fashion. The more slender the ankle, the wider may be the strap effect Choose the tapering rather than the pointed toes. In ankle strap shoes, you'll be seeing see-ing dressy ones, tailored ones, colored col-ored and plain. Low cut vamps are good this season sea-son especially if you can boast a high instep. In this case, it is wise to avoid ornamentation or sharp lines that detract from the instep. Hats with open crowns . . parade, and this year many women will want to use high colored or white gloves to dress up a fall or winter suit they are wearing on cool days. Smartest styles In gloves for spring are either very long or very short. Some of the elbow length gloves are long and slim and can be worn pulled up or crushed down to the wrist. Gauntlet styles with wide flaring cuff to be worn over the suit sleeve continue to be fashionable. fashion-able. Gay suede or glace (capeskin) "shortie" gloves make an excellent choice to compliment a suit. Newest New-est trend in "shorties" is cuff interest, inter-est, a button trim or a turn back cuff of contrasting leather or color. Open Crown Hats, Sailors Are Popular The gay, trim sailor is one of the most popular hats of the season, and goes very nicely with your suits, of course. You'll see some of the sailor hats freshly sprigged with flowers or eyelet to suit your fancy. Another hat that is seen often is the open crowned hat with gay flow- Closed shoes are fashion news. ers, and this Is especially good for spring. If you already have one of these, the flowers can be changed, and it will be ready for a new season. sea-son. There are many flowers available, avail-able, and some of them are of soft, real-looking chiffon. There are some large picture hats available, and then, too, the close fitting cloche type sprigged with a gay flower has taken a turn toward real simplicity. Simplicity Favored In Bags and Belts You'll find that the large oversized over-sized bags are still out of the picture and the trim, tailored type of bag is high in fashion. As always in spring, patent leather is favored, and this patent may be carried on further in a wide belt on your costume. cos-tume. Among the novelties in bags, you'll find that straw woven affairs are coming in to give the wearer a more casual type of bag with her informal infor-mal prints. No return is seen of the shoulder type bag, so it's a good idea to dis- |