Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1928 — Page 13

MARCH 21,1928.

SPRING GOWNS DEPART FROM STRAIGHT LINE Spirit of Season Rejected in Break From Old Silhouettes. BY HENRI BENDEL For NEA Service NEW YORK, March 21.—The lines of new spring evening gowns are as fresh and fluttering as the season’s zephyrs. The solidity and regularity of the straight line silhouette seems a very dead thing right now. All the new fashions break the straight lines to bits. If I were asked to name the most interesting point of new evening styles, I think I should say the killing of the straight line continuity. Winter deserves honorable mention in this matter. For the poufs and bows and bustles tactfully prepared the way for the present tendency to diagonal lines, slanting tiered effects and hemlines that just can not seem to accept the even tenor as their mode of life. Spring materials are particularly dainty for evening wear. Flowered freshness comes to us in printed satin and chiffons. The swish and sheen of moire adds a sophisticated quality to any party. And taffetas come in luscious shades —all of them soft like the off-whites, the honey beiges, the moonlight greens and so on. Three Divergent Interpretations I show today three divergent interpretations of just how fashion has the upper hand in this matter of breaking up the straight lines, once and for all. First is a frock as daintily fresh and graceful an embodiment of the season as spring flowers themselves. On an ivory background, roses in soft pink tints gleam among delicate traceries of green leaves. Anew note in slanting effects is achieved here by having the downward line of the irregular neckline, the belt, the skirt yoke and the skirt’s flounce converge on the left hip. Novel, different and charming is the effect. The flounce is circular and of generous fullness, with dipping, pointing ends on the opposite sides. The bindings are of the deepest shade of rose. Crisp as the spirit of spring is the moire of periwinkle blue. This gown has two noteworthy effects in its lines—the off-the-shoulder suggestion of its curved neckline and the fluttering tendency of its pointed panels. Those Be -Gemmed Gowns Two very lovely costume jewelery pins ornament this blue frocksquare turquoise set in platinum, in modem design. One of the twin pins catches the bodice at the point of the V and eases a little fullness into the neckline. The other fastens the girdle. The be-gemmed gown really has the edge on the other now. I must mention, too, the suggestion of a blouse this bodice has. This might be taken to forecast a day—not too far distance —when the fullness of frocks may come above the waistline, with slender hip effects—quite a different effect from today’s modes. The third establishes all over again the chic of black for evening —especially when it is svelte, delicate, transparent velvet. Black Velvet’s Elegance I have remarked before but would like to emphasize the insistence of evening modes on a more elegant formality. Black velvet has this intrisically. And when the lines have flowing grace it is doubled. Here I have applied the shirred flounce to get the swallow-tail hemline. And for diversity, this hem is curved and notched to show the apple green satin lining. The neckline and sleeveless armholes are likewise bound with green which shows ever and anon as Milady moves, giving a fresh note to the gown.

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Milady’s Boudoir of Graceful Day-Bed, Low Easy Chair, Typify Her Modernism

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(Models bv Lord end Tavlor) For the modern boudoir: (above) Compact dressing table in ebony and ivory with four compartments and underslung chairs upholstered in new Rodier fabrics in ivory, black and orchid tones; (below) A low daybed is a single sweep of grace in Macassar-ebony, with quilted rose taffeta coverlet and four pillows; the mirror is silver edged, crystal flower lights are wall motifs, a low chair matches the bed and soft, serene rugs are in patterned gray lambskin.

MODERN woman’s environment has caught up with her personality! Milady of 1928 may now have her entire home done in a modernistic style in keeping with her own spirit. Take, specifically, the boudoir. In the charming modern manner, that very personal room can be decorated in entirety in the same grayhound sleekness of Milady herself. Low, comfortable chairs are a single sweep in one-piece of lus-' trous wood and dressing tables are compact with just enough kneespace underneath for her silken form. Soft Colors and Fabrics Day-bed curve to grace in lovely inlaid woods, their bases contributing beauty and their coverlets simple elegance itself. Rugs, Avails, coverlets, chair upholstering are luxuriously, serenely exquisite in soft color and fabric. Furniture and furnishings, as a matter of fact, have lagged in this matter of comforming to the new idea of woman. Miss Modern has become legend in the way her changing character has revolutionized clothes so they will give her more freedom, made hats small enough to fit her shorn locks, fashioned jewelry in new and intriguing variety to suit her fancy. Now along comes modern furniture to give her a setting in keeping with the graceful slitheriness of her silken self and with the easy directness and simplicity of her manner. Non-Essentials Passe Modern boudoirs are as shorn of non-essentials as is the woman of

NEW SWEATERS FOR CHILD ATTRACTIVE Children’s sweaters are to be seen in new models that have attractive designs for the borders and in the collars and cuffs. In those for smaller children these designs are taken from nursery rhymes and have different characters portrayed in various color schemes. In the two-year-old sizes, the sweaters have just a single figure worked out by hand in soft angora on the front. Special attention has been paid to the neck treatments, some being finished in student fashion, some with “V’s,” others with square necks with a turn-back collar, and other’s with the regulation turtle neck. Some are made to fasten at the side with a row of pearl buttons, and others slip on over the head.

today. They are gloriously contemporary, expressing modern life—its spirit, experience, needs. Gone are the massive, heavily carved chests of drawers—the hopechests of another world. Milady no longer needs room for multitudinous state he and muslin petticoats. Her slinky undies fit into one-tenth the drawer space. Everything caters to the slenderized silhouette rather chan the stiff crinoline of other year. Mouldings and baseboards are omitted in these new rooms—to give more unbroken height. Doorjams have set-backs, done in degrade tones, to eliminate all shock. Ceilings, floors, all woodwork and furnishings are integral parts in color and design of a whole plan. Silvered Wood Used Pale green is the tone of one delectable boudoir. One lovely modernistic portrait hangs on the wall. Silvered wood, as soft and lustrous looking as gleaming satin, fashions the day-bed, chairs, dressing table and long mirror. Frosted glass lamps are hidden like wall decorations above the bed and mirror. Upholstering is apricot quilted satin and rugs soft hand-tufted gray. With more color but the same serene peace and beauty one room, done by the famous French designers Sue at Mare, uses macas-sar-ebony for its furniture, brocaded silver for its walls, quilted rose taffeta for its coverlet and four pillows and silvertone lambskin for its rug and foot-cushion. Low’, Easy Chairs Popular Shown today is the graceful daybed, with its one high end sweeping in a single happy curve down to the base, across and up again to a low footboard. The low, easy chair uses the same gleaming, restful wood, in the same graceful lines. The tall mirror has silvered edges that slide into the tone of the wall and give the illusion of the mirror’s being part of the wall. Shown also is the dressing table from a cream orchid and black room. Compact, this ebony and maple dressing table lifts its cover for a good-sized mirror, its sides are sizable compartments and a drawer pulls out in front large enough to hold many necessities. The chair in front of it is upholstered in exquisite deep-ply velvet, of a creamy tone like the maple,

Spring Shirts in the new and wanted fancy and plain colors, collar to match and collar attached Sj.Bs $p_AS $g.45 Spring Neckwear in plain and fancy patterns, with colorings to blend with the new shades in spring suits and coats. $| ten 58.15 H PfST'Ji

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cross- stitched in orchid in a floral pattern. The other chair is the kind one sinks and sinks in, all comfortably upholstered in anew Rodier fabric in tones of cream, black and orchid. THREE TONES OF BLUE IN NEW SPORTS SUIT In a cardigan sports suit of the new rayon and wool faille crepe, three tones of blue are skillfully assembled. A fine wool and rayon jersey of black, very minutely flecked with white, is made with a skirt that is box-pleated in clusters and an overblouse, in which the top is cut in a deep-pointed yoke and the long sleeves are made of white crepe. Sections of gray crepe are inserted with the black, forming triple points from the neck to the bottom of the blouse, which is hip-length and is belted with a narrow strip of patent leather. THREE-CORNER SCARF GOOD FOR EVENINGS On chilly spring evenings at any of the resorts, or even in town, one will see fashionable women wearing the new three-cornered scarf that is made of sequins in coral, red, black, lavender or green. A mesh made of line linen thread which matches the sequins is cleverly woven in each sequin having four little holes through which the thread is run. For older women the design is worked out in black net and also in white china beads and black silk thread embroidery. Plain Crepe in Vogue Summery dresses, and thoroughly up-to-date ones in their ways of combining figured and plain materials, are made of crepe de chine or one of the several new silks, printed in small patterns in several different colors together. On these bands of plain crepe in the predominating color of the print are added, some in square, some in straight lines closely spaced and some in the newer treatment of oblique lines.

“Walk Up a Flight and Save the Difference.” Spring Styles Ready Won and e r ful assortments. All the new color effects and fabrics. Suprisingly low prices. SUITS and TOPCOATS For Men and Young Men s 2l= Most wonderful values In Broadway tailored clothes. RUBENS 40 W. Wash. St. Upstairs, Second Floor of Thompson Bldg.

ODD EXTRAS IN FURNITURE CAN BRIGHTEN HOME Cheery Unusual Bits May Have Some Effect as New Hat NEW YORK, March 21.—The call to spring decoration soon will sound, and novel new pieces of furniture offer themselves as an answer to it. Acquiring anew lamp, table, chair, rug, picture of any colorful, decorative home accessory is quite like putting on anew hat when one is tired of an old costume. The new home accessory, like the hat, has a remarkable psychological effect upon the home-maker, as well as upon other members of the family. It may spur mother onto making chintz slip-covers for some of the chairs that are not all they once were, or encourage sister to make a few gay pillows to liven up a corner that is cozily dark in winter but needs a vivid note for spring. Try Some Unusual Object There are no bounds to what one may purchase as the extra offering to the spirit of spring. But the extra is more likely to be a success if it is some unusual object—not just a chair, davenport or other large piece that must fit in with everything else before it is convincingly all right in the room. On the market today are some vastly interesting, amusing and highly decorative odd accessories for the living room that carry no responsibility with them, for they look cheerily all right with everything. Why not try a gaudy waste basket by the side of the staid desk? Or a gay magazine box that can be moved to this chair or that or out onto the veranda, always carrying cheer with it? If a larger piece can be afforded, one of the reproductions of old Italian furniture may be just the thing. Beauty From Europe

Italy and France are sending us some beautiful extras that strike the right note for spring decoration. They are peasant art objects and carry with them the same colorful atmosphere that all European peasanl life exudes. New and unusual is a French newspaper and magazine stand in vivid red and white siz-zag stripes with no less than a picnic under the shade of a big tree for the decorative motif on its front. The green of the grass and tree, the yellow,

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pink, red, blue and white of the costumes of the little holiday figures are cheerily decorative and pleasing. Scorning a round or square shape, a large sized-waste basket is oval. This has a brilliant gold lining and its black border is outlined in gold. Quite regal, also is the old French court scene that marches clear around the basket in gorgeous color. For the first time this year, reproductions of the old “Oliver Cromwell stool,” a piece of furniture Cromwell made famous by liking to sit on it, are available. They are hand-carved, with the same design of the original. The repro-

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all, as a gay flower dresses up a suit, so just one bit of new household accessory this year is likely to add it full quota of animation to the home that may need just that touch to make it perfect. Chiffons, Laces Vie Flowered chiffons and lates are rivals for favor in the mode for summer, the former which had a pronounced success last season, coming back now in greater variety of design and in enchanting colors. In these both large and small patterns are good. All of them are softly graceful and feminine in tone.

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