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University Daily Kansan
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Monday, Sept. 15, 1952
Variety of Easy Silhouettes Gives Fashion a Gentle Look for Fall
Fashion has a gentle, lady-like look this fall and appears in a variety of easy silhouettes bound to be pleasing to all.
Texture-conscious fabrics are restricted and gentle to the touch. Colors are warm and elegant.
Silhouettes follow natural lines or are designed to emphasize curves. Details, on everything from dresses to coats, etch a pretty line, bustle out, drape graciously, gleam, glitter, and in most instances, show off exquisite workmanship.
Take the texture-some fall fabrics, for example. Fur fibres are blended right in with fleeces, jeans and suiting woolens to provide greater lustre and downy luxury.
Tweeds have lost their exaggerated rough and rugged outlook and, instead, are now spongy and gentle, often with a handmade look. Perennially favored crepes are easier than ever to drape, and chiffons and geartettes, elegant with pleats, are ready for a romantic fall or winter's evening.
Black highlights the tone depths of the new season. It revives "the little black dress," appears alone or etched by a contrasting texture or in combination with one of the new deep autumn shades like coppery brown or emerald green.
Green becomes a fall fashion color, once more, and can be seen in every shade from olive to deep, deep green. The browns, too, make
CAMPUS WEAR—One of the more popular campus outfits this fall will be the above sweater and skirt.
fashion color news, in a variety of tones that range from the palest of beiges to the richest of earthy tones. And ever popular grey is notable in a gamut of shades from pale misty grey to blackboard grey.
Fashion takes hold of flares and carefully controls them to give coats a fresh new silhouette. The tulip look, with flare concentrated to the sides of the coat, appears on the fall scene. The barrel coat, another new fashion entry, is narrow at the shoulders, widens out on its downward path, then tapers again at the hem.
The Martingale belt brings back interest to new coats. When placed high, this exciting new detail innovation, takes a direct cue from Paris designs. When placed below the waistline of a coat, the Martingale belt achieves a middy outlook.
Suits, casually elegant for the new season, have specially easy-to-wear lines. Jackets are longer and shoulders are wider than in past seasons. Skirts, slim in effect, have detailing, like gores and pleats, that give them generous ease for walking.
Exciting suits new for fall, are the suits made of snug coating fabrics. These very often have rich touches of fur at the collar, as a lining, or in the form of a cuff. And, in most instances, they appear in colors as elegant as the suits themselves, such as gold and purple.
The middy line is shown to advantage in the longer jackets of new season suits. Often a self band or trim patch pockets at the jacket hem will accept the middy look. Empire suits, with high-rising lines and glittering buttons beneath the bosom, and overblow jeacket suits that have bloused backs and slim fitting hips, are also to be seen in the fall suit picture.
New dresses take advantage of wandering waistlines and feature them in a sufficient number of ways to offer a pleasing selection to women of every size. High crushed cummerbund effects, low sleek torso lines, a soft natural look, cuffed middy style, and a snug-fitting corselet waistline are all to be had in fall dresses.
Fur coats, featured for the season to come, are neither too slim or overly full, but present a most elegant appearance.
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CUFFED HIPLINE — The suit above features a cuffed hipline. The elongated button front matches those on the tab cuffs.
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The softened textures of fabrics featured for the new season, for example, can now be dressed up with jewelry that also has a textured appearance
Providing a suitable accent for the rich colors seen everywhere in the fall fashion picture are the many blue, toaz, bright sapphire and gold shades available in jewelry
Highlighting the color picture is the return of black jewelry, either alone or in combination with colored beads, to offset the many all black and touched with black fall costumes Jet beads and gleaming smooth beads will be on hand, sometimes dramatically alone, often coupled with tiny rhinestones, faceted gold beads or rich looking baraque pearls
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