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Show Woman's World Accessory Guide Is Valuable In Planning Spring Wardrobe yf ANY women tell they don't know Just how to select their accessories for a costume; others ay they are not familiar enough with the trend to look for something fresh and new. For this reason, I've compiled s picture of accessories for spring. When you need something, check ie list and you'll easily find what's best to seek. You'll find that this year, fashion seeds the finishing touch and nothing noth-ing completes the ensemble more toao feminine effects at the wrist, throat, soft shoulder and slim waistline. waist-line. If your budget is limited because you spent heavily last fall and winter win-ter to achieve the new look, you will do well to make your basic dresses new again by buying proper accessories. It's a four star year for collars, cuds, capelets and cummerbunds, worn separately or teamed together with each other and with blousettes, dickeys, plastrons, fichus and jabots. ja-bots. And please don't forget the lingerie and eyelet petticoat ruffles fchat peep out of hemlines. Everything Every-thing is headed toward the ensemble en-semble look In fashions, and scarfs icore highly, too. Why not dress up a black or navy dress with a soft flattering capelet? 4 With so many from which to choose, select only those flattering to the face as well as the dress. Keep them neatly laundered or cleaned to get the full and beautiful effect. Cummerbunds Help Whittle Waistline For the whittled waist effect which is so popular, choose cummerbunds cum-merbunds shown wrapped in scarf effects. If they're bright and you have a slender waist, wrap a pair around the waist and tie in a bow. You also may have a cummerbund cummer-bund and then match it with a collar col-lar and cuff set. -. ' Plastrons, fichus and jabots are excellent for cover-up jobs, creating a look of newness and fashion. With so many prints scheduled for the coming season, you'll find that a soft printed rayon plastron completely com-pletely transforms the front of a dress, giving it a high collar effect and new hip emphasis. The fichu, an ultra feminine effect, ef-fect, Paris inspired, as are many of the new neckwear designs shown, goes formal in pleated white organdie. Collar and cuff stt art springlikt . . . One recently seen was of bright plaid with a pointed little collar as well as a gayly printed chlntr long capelet with high rolled collar, self bow and streamers. Dollars and Cuffs ire Flattering It's an old trick to dress up a dark basic dress with spanking white collars col-lars and cuffs. Indeed, why not have leveral sets so you can change the iress several times a week? There are many flattering sets on the market, but, of eourse, you always al-ways can sew them yourself. Patterns Pat-terns are easy to make, but they ihould fit the neckline of the dress. This year collars and cuffs are especially stunning, showing them- 1 y7 1 Neckwear and Scarfs Are Handy, Interesting Neckwear, which is so popular for adding a new look, has many interesting inter-esting features. Many items have tuck-ins so that you don't have to sew them, or they may have snaps for adding and subtracting features.. Blousettes come with several different differ-ent collars, or a change of jabots, matching cuffs and an extra long tie so that many different effects can be achieved. Scarfs are seen in many new tantalizing tan-talizing colors and exciting prints. They come in long lengths as well as squares. Wrap them -around the waist, make bustle backs, side bows, hip drapery, shoulder flattery, flat-tery, neckline variations, front plastrons, plas-trons, halter blouses, peplums or anything else. . Shoes for Spring Completely Different According to St. Louis stylists, a virtual revolution for shoe ward robes is predicted. The "new look" is traveling down and shoes will be as different as dresses. If you are wondering what you should wear in the Easter parade, look over these features when you choose footwear. Shoes will be predominantly dainty, dain-ty, elegant and feminine. Long, slender lines, graceful heels, intricate in-tricate but dignified ornamentation are the important features. Since the hemline has dropped, attention naturally is focused foot-ward. foot-ward. Stylists are sweeping footwear foot-wear up, often around the ankle as if to meet the dress itself. Shoes must have the new, long, graceful effect. Closed toes and heels are better than open ones. Choose a simple unadorned un-adorned pump if you're in doubt, and you will be correctly attired. Toelines no longer are stubby, they're rather more slender and tapering. If your ankles are slender, wear the strap effects, but steer away from them if you lack the trimness. If you need to slenderize, match the shoes with dress and hosiery to carry out the needed elongation. And so are boleros. (elves In small high white pique effects ef-fects with various colored ribbons, there are frilly sheers with Schimi kyelet embroidery and new fabrics luch as the wonderful-for-launder-tng everglaze chintz. You also may see checked sets or lovely pastel pleated ones, strung With black ribbon. |