Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1932, Page 43

A short evening wrap of black Lyons velvet with « quaint wide neckline and big puff sieeves, A dinner dress'and short cape coat of black mausseline are trimmed with white angel-skin ribbon. The dress is made over a taffeta foun- dation, an important new fashion. i A coat and dress of tucked gray georgette for a season when gray is an important shade and favered tucking a trimming. The dress has a plain yoke and skirt. a straight box-pleated The belt is red patent leather, Sheer Stockings And Sandal Shoes 'HERE will be little temptation to go stockingless this Summer, either on the score of economy or comfort, be- cause the price of stockings has gone fdown so amazingly and because stock- | ings of the fas) ble sort have be- | come 30 nearly nothing at all in weight |and texture Of course, if you prefer, you may choose stockings of the sensi- ble, substantial sort for sports and streets wear, but for formal afternoon and evening wear those of the more trensparent and lacy texture are es- ential and more and more well dressed women are choosing extremely trafs- parent stockings even for more practi- cal purposes. Colored stockings are no longer in the experimental stage. gghey made | are the better, and the sandal idea has | black and white. La d good at the Southern re: uring the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 3, 1932—PART THREE Coat with interesting wide sleeves is made of black diagonal tweed. The dress and jacket at the right of it are copied from a Schiaparelli model and made up in the original French novelty tweed. A four-skin Kolinsky scarf is shown at the left, while on the right is a very new silver fox scarf made in the form of a double cape, with no heads or tails. BY MARY MARSHALL. EPARTMENT STORE executives tell us tMat when buyers use bad judgmient of color in mak- ing "their selections, “mark- downs” are sure to follow to say, if the buyer of the suit department bought a great many suits of colors and color combinations that proved not to be fashionable, the | store has to take a loss by selling these [ suits at a loss. The same thing is trie of shoes, jewelry, handbags and every- | thing else that women wear, 4 | So it is that color is an importagt ! Prnat is factor in choosing merchahdise, and 1t | is just as important to you personally in ‘choosing your own things. * ok % x "JHIS year color has to be considered with special care, because fashion permits so much greater freedom in its selection. A few seasons ago you could play safe and buy all your things to maich the dress with which they were | to be worn. This season a costume is | likely to look drab and characterless unless it contains some sort of color contrast. Not only should your colors and color combinations be becoming to 1 personally, but they should carry with them the conviction of smartness | and indication of current trend of hions. he color combination is often pre- ermined for you in the making of a In other cases the dress itself is ne, while the necessary contrast is carried out by means of accessories. You may choose accessories to give a colorful touch to a dress of neutral or dark color; you may choose them to match the color accent of the dress, or you m choose dull or neutral acces- sories to tone down the vivid hue of the dress. The whole question of color is thus closely associated with the question of accessories. One cannot be consid- ered without the other. * ok ox ¥ ET'S begin with navy blue, which < has turned out to be—as most reporters predicted—the most widely fashionable color of the season. Navy with pure white is considered de- cidedly smart, especially for the suit of tailored sort. correct appearance that black and white did a season ago. Navy with a brighter. blue has been featured smart French dressmal who also combine navy blue with bright green. | A subtler combination—also approved in Paris—consists of navy blue with eggshell, navy blue with citron, or navy with dusty pink Sometimes n: or brighter-than- navy is combined with white and yel- ow ighter tone of many of the and last, but by no means least, navy and gray, which Is especially smart in flannel. The all-black ensemble, like the black- nd-white costume, is less in evidence | than it was last season, though all- | black dresses and coats are abundant in the wardrobes of well dressed women. Jsually they are worn with some con- | trast of color. Pink, ranging from pale coider months and now appear for re- sort or evening wear in yellow, pink een or blue—very fine mesh, so that the actual tone of the stocking when worn gives only the lightest suggestion | of color. White stockings of the same | very fine mesh are the fashionable choice for wear with white shoes. Lisle mesh stockings in the usual beige tones | are gaining favor for sports. Those of a real cream tone are newer than those of beige. Names used to indicate the various | favored tones in stockings for town wear lindicate a veering toward soft, incon- | spicuous tomes. “Putty,” “smoke” and hadow” are applied to the new gray- ish beige tones that go well with navy blue, black or brown One hesitates to include shoes among accessories, though, of course, the rules | that govern their selection are the same 2s those that apoly to handbags, stock- ings, gloves and other true accessories. The important thing to remember is that for all occasions fashion makes very light of shoes. The scantier they | had its effect on all types of footgear. It has the same crisp, | Navy and strawberry is decidedly | Unusual Color Combinations in gSpring Clothes | flesh to a real strawberry tone, is a favorite ally of black. Black is often combined with beige, string or parch- ment. Black, white and gray provide a truly sophisticated three-toned scheme. | A charming new Spring dress is all- | black save for the collar of pink and | white printed chiffon, and another black ’dress is trimmed wifth yellow and white. | % s ~% ! BROWN, which is doing extremely well for Spring, since it is usually regarded as an Autumnal color, is | ly combined with beige, but it is Smart of important 1 g and they will tain their importance throughout the Summer. Very often they are an integral part of the dress or coat or packet and are then acces- sories in effect cnly. But the stores are flaunting separate scarfs in a most tempting variety. You can use them to | give up-to-date aspect to a last season's dress, to add character to a scarfless ress or to replace the scarf that es one of your new dresses y leads a very active life. You can wear it this way.or that way—tied in a bow under your chin to give a dem effect, tied under one ear in a more jaunty fashion, or draped loosely round neck - and shoulders. There are square scarfs, triangular scarfs and oblong scarfs; wcol scarfs for cooler s, silk scarfs for any time and cotton and linen scarfs for warm- weather sports and resort wear It would be perfectly possible to struggle thrcugh the season with one handbag, that is an economy that we do not advise. Once upon a time when good-looking handbags were | always expensive and when a low- priced handbag looked low-priced we might have advised buying one gocd handbag rather than a number of the cheaper sort. But the handbag situ- ation has changed enormously recently and in y collection of the inexpensive sort you can almost always find several | that ‘are extremely good icoking. They | possess that simplicity and smartness of design that used to be the exclusive property of the more expensive sort. SCARF‘.Q head the list accessories f doubtless at its best this season when combined with gray. Gray costumes have fur and other trimmings of brown, and brown costumes are relieved by gray. Brown with orange and yellow is new and smart, and a much admired new eve- | ning dress showed brown relieved by | pale flesh at the neck, with a draped | sash of turquoise silk. Yellowish reds, such as tomato and pimento, are smartest when combined with parchment, putty or beige. And right now reds of a winey tone are com- | ing into favor with women of good taste. One of the smartest coin-dotted | Dress Must Have Attendant scarf Envelope bags still lead the list. You will find them with flaps that snap in- visibly in place and with straps that snap or buckle to hold the bag together. Among the new bags you will find some h wrist straps or metal chains. Some women choose this kind. feeling that they are harder to lose than the sort that have to be carried in the hand or under the arm. When made of leather such bags are sometimes called satchel bags. Large bags with a special section for papers and folders are known as assport bags Patent leather bags are much in evi- dence. Their shiny surface in black, brown, blue, red, beige or white provides 1 acceptable contrast to the dull sur- of so many of the new fabrics. Pin bags that are smartly allied to e tailored suit or coat are to be had in black, brown or blue, and silk crepe bags with dull gold frames, to be car- ried with the silk suit or dress, are also available in black, brown and blue. Gloves made of very fine soft patent leather have made their way across the Atlantic from France, and have been shown in some of the shops. Sometimes they are entirely of fine patent leather or kid with a patent leather finish, while sometimes the palm side of the glove is of suede. More often the patent leather gpg&ars only by way of ornamental uffs, String gloves made of coarse cotton mesh are another novelty that will be more in evidence as warmer weather advances, and there is an increasing de- mand for very fine fabric gloves for daytime wear. | Stripes, Dots and Plaidé Used With New Charm STRIPES running up and down, stripes running crosswise and stripes running diagonally —you will find them all among the new Spring fabrics, and if you go about looking | at the new Spring clothes you will find ever so many suggestions about how to_use them. s There are dresses with wide stripes running up and down that make a short girl look fairly tall and a tall girl look as tall as her tallest brother. In other seasons we might insist that stripes of that sort were appropriate only for shorter women, but this year they are considered very smart and youthful. On afternoon and evening dresses of | the slender, slim-line sort stripes in- variably run up and down. For day- | time dresses they are sometimes used | diagonally, sometimes slanting _down |to the center front, where the two | lines of diagonal stripes are joined in a center seam. Blouses sometimes show |a diagonal use of stripes and some- { times, but not so often, they are used | running from side to side. Some of the new suits show striped | blouses with packet linings of match- | ing striped silk Both Lanvin and Chanel have done | much to forward the fashion for | stripes, and Lanvin's name is especlally associated with half-inch stripes of l'organdie and Chanel | cards that are not expensive, silks shows wine-red dots on a dull rose background | A smart new gray suit trimmed with brown was worn with a green lace blouse, and a mauve chiffon_evening | dress has a soft girdle of coral-colored silk. All of which shows that there m; a wide varlety of color schemes from which to choose. New Things Mai&e Gayer Card Party| T'S the time of year for card| parties—because every time of vear is right for them—no time, per- haps, more than another, because we find cards among our greatest diver- sions, and contract has given a boost to them. There isn't much work ready for a card party ments may cost as much, of both time and money, as you wish. But they may also be of the simplest sort | and be satisfactory. Sandwiches and tea, in, the afternoon, answer well all social ' requirements. Ice cream with little cakes in the evening does the same thing. So there is no need for worrying about refreshments. | An_elaborate one-course refreshment may be served, or a two-course refresh- | ment, if you wish. Strawberry short- cake with whipped cream, served with coffee and salted nuts, may be served | either afternoon or evening. So may a frozen or jellied fruit salad. Or creamed chicken or chicken salad, fol- lowed by some frozen dessert, with coffee and nuts and candies, can be served for elaborate two-course re- freshments. The shops are full of things to| make the card party interesting. There are new card tables every time we turn around. Some are made 50 | that they tip up, or down, screen | fashion, and can be placed before a | fireplace or against a wall when not | in_use in a decorative manner. | Some of the new tables are lacquered, red or green as you choose, and have black tops. There are, of course, all| sorts of covers to slip over the table, including some made in honor of the Washington Bicentennial. decked with stars and other patriotic emblems— in getting | Refresh- | | and done, of course, in the tricolor playing | but still are attractive. It is, however, still possible to spend more money than a little on really nice cards. These more expensive cards are beautifully finished and have most attractive designs. The cheaper cards, too, it must be admit- 1t is possible now to get | ted, are smooth and pleasant to use for evening dresses, and both dress- makers indorse them for sports and resort wear as well as for afternoon | and evening. Dots, too, are much in favor, and with stripes and checks and neat plaids will doubtless present strong competi- tlon against the floral prints that are usually nominated for first honors at this time of the year. | Plaids, too, are used by some of the | dressmakers. They are used for sepa- rate blouses as well as for facings and linings and scarfs Short, just-to-the-waist blouses of plaid gingham are worn with neutral toned sweaters and sport skirts—ang | perhaps that is the most effective use | of plaids that we have. Strain Mars. Eye "THE face will become wrinkled and | haggard in consequence of eye| strain. If the daily work is of such a | nature that the eyes become tired, it is | a good pian frequently to get up and look at some other object, preferably out of the window. | Always keep the head as erect as| possible. To be constantly looking down is very bad for the eyes. The | moment the eyes are tired, the work upon which they are engaged should | be put aw; and are decorated in charming fashion. They._ show modern designs of angles and lines, as well as perky little dogs | and pretty little girls. Mending May Not Be Always Worth While| | The perfect week end dress— IN the household of today there 15‘ a jacket and skirt of black always the very fair question as to whether a certain article, worn or | wool crepe, worn over a de- broken, ‘is worth repairing. In days | ,. 4 long gonme the question almost never | lightfully arose 80 long as there was any of the | gress of white marocain with original article to be mended. But now Nt ack dots. 50 often a new article can be bought for no more or for even less than it| T would cost to have the older one | med with big nickel buttons. mended. In days gone by all well-l‘ regulated households had the where-| simple afternoon The coat is trim- i American Types Inspired by New French Fashions for Spring P Copy of Lelong's white Lyons velvet coatee to bée worn for formal after. noons or over am evening dress. The ideal dress to wear under the coatee above is shown at the left. It is of black chiffon, trimmed with tucking and brightened 1with strass elips. withal for making simple repairs, but | now about the only repair tools many homes are needles, threads an equipment for mending and darning clothes. In our departure from the old| method we have gone too far in the other direction. We often discard ) that are well worth mending, dismissing the whole problem with “It is eheaper to bu‘y new.” m‘ R wives have learned Booth Tarkington fine art of o it is where that we are most wasteful utensils. something—considerably more the cost involved in mending. . S ing and patching. But being put into Braille for e hammer and screwdriver, | the blind. I8 | pliers and soldering iron might be used | It is not a difficult matter to mend leaks and attach handles to kitchen Even if the mended article is not as good as new, it is good for than ‘Mayy's Neck” is ' T}Ze benefit of Qur Fuel Bill. Fuel, in some form, is vital to the progress of the Nation. Reflecting this is the fact that the manufacturing in- dustries of the Nation use annually approximately ~ 36,000,000,000 _kilowatt hours of electrie 000 gallons of fuel ofl, ,000,000 coal and 960,000,000,000 ouble natural gas. The bill for these | fuels exceeds $1,000,000,000