THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE ELEVEN
Easter Suits Are Finely Tailored
Your new Easter suit has a finely tailored look with attention focused on detailing and trim neatness.
From shoulder to hem it is slim in line, relieved, this season, of its severity by a gently arched hipline, and eye-compelling detailing, a soft or silky-appearing fabric.
Jacket lengths are approximately an inch longer than last season with emphasis on the tunic style, often 32-inches long and cut in almost a straight line with your slim skirt. Other, softer versions of the tunic jacket are a trifle shorter and have fullness below the waistline.
Tiny peplums on the sides, center front and back of fitted jackets can be seen adding flattering accent to the arched hipline look.
Back in fashion's favor is the mantailored suit. The one-button style predominates, but unlike past years, the new version is softened by feminine collar and pocket detail.
Outstanding versions include a circle peplum which is placed at each side of the hipline, a peplum that stands away from the jacket and often contains pockets, the apron peplum which appears in the center front of the jacket and the fishtail peplum, placed at the front of a cutaway jacket.
The 3 and 4-piece suit is also due to become a spring fashion leader. It may have 2 jackets or 2 skirts plus a vestee in matching or contrasting colors or patterns. It may be a neatly tailored suit complete with matching or contrasting jacket. It may be the 2-skirt suit or perhaps a suit with its own blouse in a solid, print or stripped crisp fabric.
Asymmetric lines gain new dash for spring in necklines or hiplines which jut past the center line, in skirts and jackets that wrap to a side, in strapping or pockets that effect an oblique outlook by being placed at one yoke or one hip and by curved closings.
Refreshing fashion notes for new suits are the cardigan or collarless necklines which can be folded back into neat little lapels, the many scarfs and stoles either attached to suits or available separately in smart contrasting fabrics and colors, and the three-quarter or bracelet-length sleeves that relieve the most severe styles with a dressmaker touch.
Your skirt, of course, is narrow but easy to walk in due to kick pleats and the trumpet silhouette interpreted with pleats all around the hemline or gores which widen below the knees. Other means of keeping suit skirts slim yet comfortable are with rows of back buttons, slits or tiny multiple pleats.
The soft fabrics that promise to be your primary choice in suits this spring feature flannel looking its newest in pearl grey and grey blue and its most sophisticated in light brown. Gabardine, ever your choice for spring, reigns once more and looks freshest in navy which is also the number one color of the new season.
In the shimmering fabric families, silks and rayons are expected to take over. Silk taffeta, imported suitings with a surah texture, heavy-weight shantung and faile and rayons in faile, taffeta and ottoman carry their weight for spring in your more dressy dinner and theater suits.
Velvet Trimmings Go Well For Spring
a touch of velvet, a dab of white. this is the signature of spring fashions.
Velvet is everywhere—as contrasting accent on the collar of your suit, as pert trim on your new spring bonnet or as a silver of elegance that encircles the waistline of your favorite print dress.
The sparkle of white so widely in favor for spring, reveals itself as debonair accent for the deep toned navy blues you'll wear through the new season, as perky highlights on your best hat and in sleekly styled gloves that make for fashion all the way to your fingertips.
Cottons Get Gav Glitter
The suits that personify spring are slim in line, have gentle arched hips and feminine detailing. Above left, a slim skirted suit with a double peaked collar, bold hip flaps. At right, a suit with notched curving collar and hip detail and self-button accents. Both of Pacific sheen gabardine. By Newbury.
Cottons have a gay glitter this season.
Pert off-shoulder styles for gala evening events come all dressed-up with rhinestones twinkling and lavish applications of lace.
Mark Hemline With Soap
Mark helmines on dark fabrics with soap. It's neat, easily visible, easily brushed or washed off later.
Smooth cotton blouses, look sparkingly pretty with sprinklings of beads bordering their necklines.
Hankies Add Gaiety To Spring Costumes
This spring show off your pretty ♥ handkerchiefs to best advantage.
Tie a hankie 'round your neck in a colorful choker effect or have it fliply tied at your wrist.
Make charming use of the many pockets on all of your new spring fashions. Let a handkerchief dangle coily from the pocket of your stole or place it, strategically in your suit jacket pocket to peep out and offer handsome hip accent.
Linen To Star This Spring
You'll wear linen this spring. You'll choose it in a dyed-to-match ensemble that may consist of a slim skirt and a sleeveless blouse. You may prefer it as a narrow-silhouette duster coat accented with a contrasting color velvet collar. Or you may like this fabulous fabric best when styled into your favorite dress-up frock of the season.
Colors taken from an artist's palette . . . a feminine air about the lines of our Spring fashions that is typical of the Easter season itself.
Royal College Shop 837-39 Mass.