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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 15, 1952
Variety of Silhouette Styles Gives Fall Suits Casual Elegance
Suits for fall, featuring a note of casual elegance, can be seen in a variety of silhouettes, ranging from the fur trimmed fall and winter type of suit to the ultra lady-like Empire style.
For, this season, jackets are longer, ending just above or just at the mid-hip with slight padding, in some, providing gentle curve emphasis. Shoulders are a trifle wider than in past seasons.
New skirts give a slim effect but all are eased by gores, a soft wrap style or pleats. Skirt pleating effects include all-around accordion pleats, pleats confined to each side side of the skirt, or low-placed box pleats.
Most exciting fall suit fashion news is the fall and winter suit. This style usually includes a skirt and jacket or brief coat top in a matching snug coating fabric. Many of these new, heavier suits have elegant fur trims, that may be removable to make cleaning easier, or snug-fitting muff that never featured in everything from heaver to muskrat. Colors, such as purple or gold, are elegant as the suits themselves.
The middy line, so popular for fall, is reflected in suits for the new season. The long torso effect of this line is sometimes accented by a self color and self fabric jacket hem band or trim patch pockets. Necklines, on middy suits, are, in many instances, high cardigan styles that might have a removable t collar.
Reflecting the lady-like appeal of so many fashions designed for fall, are the Empire suits and overblouse jacket suits. Detailing, just under the bosom, emphasizes the short sleeves while a bloused back and fitted hips create the jacket outlook of the overblouse jacket suit.
Fall suit fabrics offer a soft, textured outlook. Typical are the many gentle tweeds, the worsteds with rib, rep and slub surfaces, the many rayons, on hand, with the look of wool, and traditional flannel, favored again in all shades of grey.
Reflecting the casual elegance of new suit silhouettes are the variety of deep colors shown for the new season. Black or black accenting color, such as a maroon tweed suit with black velvet collar and cuffs, is predicted to be popular.
The greys, from the very lightest to the deep Oxford tones are back in fashion's favor for fall. And new are the browns, from benedictines to rich earthy tones, reds, from vivid rosy hues to elegant wines, and greens from soft olive tints to the very deepest shades.
Hair styles for fall are longer and more softly fashioned with emphasis on gentle waves.
Style Themes To Be Comfort
More and more the shackles of outmoded custom are being removed from the clothes men wear. Comfort, convenience and practicality are now the important points to be considered when planning wardrobes for fall. Fresh colors and patterns are also in increased demand.
All of this is especially true in sportswear, with new fabrics and patterns leading the way to a more comfortable leisure-time. Last year's Tattersall check vests, though still most popular, are now appearing in sporting figure challis, all silk reps and with suede fronts.
Sports jackets, a classic for leisure wear this year, emphasize improved tailoring, newer fabrics combining wool with rabbit's hair, alpaca or other good "mixers." Checks, both subdued and bold, plaids and bold patterns are among the leaders, all featuring richer color treatments.
For the man who prefers to stand in the front rank of fashion, there is the belted jacket, or Norfolk jacket. This English squire style, once so popular here in America, seems to be once more on the ascendancy.
Outerwear, too, is on the upsurge with the variety of fabrics and styles attending new interest. Man-made fibers in tandem with naturals can be regulated to meet any specific need desired. The addition of water repellency and zip-in linings added to the popularity increase by permitting use in almost all kinds of weather.
Leading the way is the storm, or stadium coat, with its informal good looks and down-to-cases practicalness. These are found in a variety of fabrics from smooth gabardine to nubby woolens. Waist length jackets and surcoats, holding leading roles, also offer wide choices. One new model, in fact, provides a removable fur collar for change with the weather.
Almost forgotten a few years ago, sweaters are once again on the upgrade, being led in the fashion drive by newer patterns and a wide selection of fibers, both natural and man made. Jacquard pattern sweaters, with plenty of color and styled for casual wear are making especially notable advances.
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PICNIC FOR NEW WOMEN STUDENTS—Over 600 freshman, transfer students, and sophomore AWS summer counselors met on North College hill for a picnic and get-acquainted session. Here are Irma Lou Kolterman, Janet Severin, Mary Lawrence, Sue Miller, Betty Billingsley, Sally Ackerson, Carol Hill with Beverly Lander, Lois Balding, Pat Mackey, and Barbara Swisher on the back row.
Fall Coats Designed to Flatter All Figures
Coats, for fall, are designed to flatter every figure and every way of living.
Silhouettes are newly subdued with extra fashion excitement centered at the sleeves and necklines. And textured fabrics have been softened and refined to create a truly lady-like air.
Most newworthy, perhaps, of the coats created for the new season, is the tulip silhouette. This features fullness, achieved by pleats or gores, which starts below the hipline. It is particularly effective, when its easy fitting lines are topped by a circlet of fur at the neckline.
the barrel, or convex silhouette, is another coat type featured for fall wear. Narrow at the shoulders, this coat gradually flares out and then tapes to a close hugging line
by the time it reaches the hemline. Also expected to be among the top coat favorites for fall are fitted styles that may either take shape as snug, slim wraps or effect great femininity with a nipped-in waist and wide, flaring skirt.
The wandering waistline so popular in the fall '52 fashion picture is represented in coats in a variety of flattering ways. Foremost of these is the Martingeal-belt which, when placed below the waistline of
a coat back, achieves a middy outlook, and when placed high above the waistline of the coat back, takes its cue from Paris designs.
Shoulders, in many instances, are wider than those offered in past years. They may drop into a full-blown sleeve tapered and simple at the wrist, or ease into a gently bloused sleeve accented by a trim little turn back cuff at the wrist. Other sleeves bell out from the elbow. Some offer a flared cape effect, either at the wrist or just above. And others nip in, then flare out with a brief cuff treatment.
Collars are completely nonexistent or dramatically large in Size.
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