Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1923, Page 5

Women's Embroid- ered Gray Crepe Roma Dress, $95. Women’s Coat, braided and edged with Misses’ Cape, witn’s chinola collar, $95. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. (. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1923, EASTER FAsHIONS These are the Fashions that Women will Choose for Easter-— and Every Woman Will Agree with Their Fashion Rightness THE FASHIONS SKETCHED—Apparel, Millinery, Shoes and Accessories, are all shown in the Woodward & Lothrop Easter Displays. The Easter Hat VERY woman’s first thought and last word on Easter Day. She may choose here from Fashion’s three charming types. The cloche, made for youth and Faster; carrying its chic lace veil lightly. itS ribbon bow gaily and full-blown, color- ful flowers blithely. The wide brimmed hat, wider on the sides, shown in distinctive milan and hair braids, some- times wreathed in flowers—sometimes wearing huge ribbon bows. And the poke hat, the newest of all Faster hats. with its brim heaped with exquisite flowers, or perhaps a chic cocarde poised on its brim. All of FFashion’s favorite wood tones, including cork—mbuntain haze, Easter yellow, almond, gray and black. $15 to $75 Millinery Salon, Third floor. The Easter Suit B{.\I)IX(] the Easter Parade is the suit: first comes the costume suit. It may be a two-piece suit with separate blouse, it may be a threc-piece suit with frock and coat--and it may be of twill or one of thuse fash- ionable new Vella-Vella, or Argo-knit. in wonder- fully lovely s s. Then there is the two-piece suit— and the suit with bolero, wrist-length, or finger-tip length coat; or it may be the strict tailleur. And the Jacquette, that other suit fashion that has every woman’s full approval: of silk or cloth, plain. embroidered. or braided—worn suit-fashion with a separate pleated skirt. T'he sports suit will I a place of prominence too—and it will be fashioned of those smart new imported fabrics— Burmah-Matte, Cricket cloth, Trelaine—in clever color combinations. Women’s Three-piece Suits, $49.50 to $150 Women’s Two-piece Suits, $49.50 to $115 Misses’ Three-piece Suits, $49.50 to $200 Misses’ Two-piece Suits, $39.50 to $95 Women's and Misses” Suit Section, Third floor. The Easter Coat S almost a costume—with its supple slenderness it fol- lows th of the str: silhouette, and the woman who wears it weil, wears it long and wrapped around lightly, tied at the hip or clasped with a buckle. New fabrics are light in weight. and more often color—but black is sometin sed. The deep nap o fabrics catches the Easter sunlight und sets it glancing. And when the coat is of twill it is very smartly braided in pat- terns that circle and spiral and brighten the smart, smooth surface: and sometimes this costume coat is topped with fur. and sometimes it wears a huge. soft. crushed collar. Women's Coats, $49.50 to $145 Misses’ Coats, $49.50 to $110 Women's and Misses' Coat Sections, Third fioor. The Easter Cape ASHION calls for a cape on Easter Day—for Fashion has a fondness for the graceful gesture of the cape. And the cape that Fashion calls for is here. In the of twill, in soft decp-pile fabrics—in soft tan and beige shades—in navy and in black. Collared with skill- ful self trimming, or with those loveliest of Spring and Summer furs x, beige squirrel and caracul, or chinola in gray and white. The cape may be finely pleated, or as sweeping as new coats and suits are slim. Women’s Capes, $49.50 to $115 Misses’ Capes, $59.50 to $110 Women's and Misses' Cape Sections, Third floor. THE ACCESSORIES TO GLOVES—Often echo Easter's slipper colors:: light gloves in warm tan tones—Ilong gloves of pliant suede or kid that fit into and under new sleeves. For some sleeves that are long and tight, there are smart gauntlets with the cuffs smartly stitched in a contrasting shade. New Suedes, $4.50, $5.50, $6.50; Mastic, Embroid- ered Gauntlets, $6.50; The Pull-on Biarritz, $4. Glove Bection, First floor. NECKLACES—Long strings of clear beads are golden brown or gleaming white; imitation amber, topaz and crystal. Some of them hanging to a low w aistline. Others once around, collar fashion. $1.25 to $20. Jewelry Section, First floor. EARRINGS—Fascinating pendants, in colorings and stones to match the necklaces—again we see the lovely amber and golden brown shades and crystal. $1.50 to $13.50. Jewelry Section, Pirst floor. The Easter Dress ERY much a part of the Easter Parade. The straight- line dress may wrap around in the way of new coats— it may’be sheathlike in its slimness aith the swaying motion of pleats—for pleats there are, and_many of them. The draped dress may cling to the flat black, or to the folds of the Fashionable hip-drape. Crepes are first, plain and printed ; embroideries tr claborate designs on many; pleats play a part in the ring. Beige, cork. all the wood-bro . grays. greens, navy and Dblack; these are Easter's shades. Women’s Dresses, $39.50 to $115 Misses’ Dresscs, $39.50 to $110 Women's ard Msses Dross ns, Third floar The Easter Blouse T!'V blouse that one wears with one’s Laster suit plays an important part. When suit colors are dark the right blouse is ight blouse, batik or print And when suits are light, 1 ses of lovely, soft crepes. harmonize with their soft heige and gray colorings. And were it not for their brilliant beadings, embroideries. braid- ings and clever monograms. many blouses would he one with the lining of the suit. The overblouse is first chosen for its becomingness and distinctiveness. $8.75 to $37.50 with the Jacquette. t be pleated—whet it be the softest « E . of novelty sports,silk, or of woc nd it may be b i those charming sand shades $15 to $25 Skirt Sectiou. Tuird floor The Easter Fur I\' the fox fur—for it is the flatter i and flatter- ing shades of fox, make the fox fur first. And it is worn with everything “I'ie exquisite natural silver fox, $300. Fox, in the fasl n shade. $85 and $125. Fox: S s in cinnamon br n blue and beige shades are three of Pointed fox and imitation blue, $65. Taupe. brown. chestnut and imitation blue fox. $55. Fur Sect Third floor. Easter Footwear and Hose EPEAT the costume color. The new browns and beige and grays step with assurance—and these soit shades are softer in suede than in any other leather. But black patent leather claims a fashion place. too—and all new ter slippers cling more slimly, because of the fashionable straps that Fashion gives them. The faint web of chiffon shows through wherever the leathier is cut out or pierced; for one’s hose are sheer, in just the same shade as one’s shoes, but so sheer that they appear to be even lighter. Easter Slippers, $10 to $13.50 Chiffon Hose, $2.50, $3 and $4 Wamen's Shoe Section, Third floor. Women's Hosiery Section, First floor. THE EASTER COSTUME BAGS—Oiten of moire, or silk, cleverly beaded ; sometimes the newest bag takes its colorings from a Paisley shawl— or it takes its touch of flowers in a bit of colorful petit point. Petit Point Bags, $7.50 to $15; Beaded Silk Bags, $25 to $50; Moire Bags, $3 to $16.50. Bag Section, First floor. HANDKERCHIEFS—Are but a bit of brilliant chiffon tucked into the pocket, or fluttering from the wrist-watch or a wristlet of ribbon. Handkerchiefs, $1; Wristlets, $1.50. Mandkerchief Section, First floor. UMBRELLAS—The Easter umbrella has a broad satin band for a finish; and the stubbier it is the better. It is smartest when its handle is of carved wood or capped with amber-color bakalite. And this umbrella is important; for Easter comes in the month of showers—April, $6 to $12. Umbrella Section, First floor. Woodm:ard X Lothwop vk FERE W Costume Suit, A Rodier’s < fabric, 5150, Misses' Canton | itock, with beige cmbroidery, $39.50, Rodier Fabric Jace quette, in greystone, $89.50.