Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1949 — Page 30

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PAGE 80 Be Vacation

Wardrobe _ Meets All Occasions, . Vera Maxwell Says

ness trip with just four dresses,

“that doubles as a bathrobe. With scarves, jewelry and the

_a sweater and skirt and: a coat?

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far from being a nightmare.

As always, many of the new wedding dresses—one using "%

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signs and manufactures, Miss Maxwell sald she'd be perfectly

tucky racing week-end, several days of business in Dallas and

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fancy takes her. .

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Basic item of her easy-travel

6r a rib-nugging white pique Jacket on top, it's a daytime dress to be worn with or without, the matching topcoat. 7 With a bright searf knotted around the neck or drawn through a shoulder strap, it's the most comfortable dress Miss mw can think of-for motor-

A. shoulder scarf of matching ite? some chunky rhinestone | jewelry and a pair of sparkling buckles for her matching gray sueds pumps turn the basic prin. wess-line dress into a gown that fits the most formal evening, Miss Maxwell said.

Copy in Blue Silk

i A navy blue. silk copy of the

wool In Texas. The other dresses are a navy blue wool full-skirted, back‘buttoned coat dress——a trademark of Miss Maxwell's business as Well as her personal life—and a Staple, wig Spetatvy ection will dress up for tea with a i bie pink hat that's 4 years old and packs flat into the suitcase,

. "Two pairs of simple, medium.

dressed for a fashionable Ken. [8

side trips to Houston, New Or. } leans: and wherever else, her ;

wardrobe. With ‘a long-sleeved | & White silk blouse underneath it |

dress will go into the suitcase! Avith it, in case it gets too hot for

heel suede pumps—gray and Wh

Jowsirr from Asres’

By LOUISE FLETCHER, Times Woman's Editor A SNOWFALL OF CHALK WHITE jewelry is a .summer fashion prediction. One reason it will be a fashion first is that it looks so well against summertanned skins. Another is that it adds a cool, frosty touch to summer Sostuipes «+ o to prints and dark sheers in particular, A new note in chalk white jewelry this year is is the introduction of gold touches, With those touches, the white baubles become gilt-edged fashions, literally and figuratively. The gold may be little beads or chains with which white beads are strung. Gold-toned metal also may rim the white, or form a superimposed design. The jewelry shown is by Castlecliff, with the exception of the gold-rimmed daisy design. That is by Trifari. The big daisy suspended on a gold snakechain necklace may be. detached and worn as a pin. The three-strand necklace of melon-shaped beads has chainsuspended drops falling from the clasp, to match the pendant lines of the cluster earrings. One of the button earrings is gold-rimmed while the others wears a whirling star in gold-toned metal. Both smoothly rounded and irregular-shaped beads are represented in the two- - strand necklaces. Prices on the earrings are $3.95 to $5; on the hecklaces, $s 95 to ge. 98.

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Mid-Calf Hem Puts Coat Back'in Style

The junior miss who went an! out for the ankle-dusting great coat last spring is faced with the problem of bringing it up to date. Although there have been few

this season are just enough short-| er to make an ankle-length coat look outdafed. By simply turning up the hem to mid-calf length, she will see for herself how much smarter her coat looks. Another simple refurbishing device is to change the buttons, adding more to a front closing for a newer-looking display. If she ean salvage enough material from the hemline, she may use the fabric

will add a smart “dressmaker” touch to her. last year's coat. Or she may use the excess fabric to make a belt which will reef in excessive fullness to give a new and trimmer-looking silhouet. If there is not enough fabric for a belt, a leather belt of a color exactly matched to the color of the coat will provide an equally smart waistline accent.

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Girl Who Made Own Clothes fo Save Lo Nears Top Echelon of Fashion Designers

By BARBARA BUNDSCHU * ~ United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Apr. 23 — Mary Blair started making Her owil ciothes finer teens to SEVS money for gas for her convertible. Today she's designing 4 large part of the production of one of the nation’s biggest sportswear manufacturers. And she's still making her own clothes—at home. She's too tall and longwaisted for the suits and dresses the David , Crystal firm makes from her designs for the average figure. A blond yoting woman in her early 30's, Miss Blair is on her way to being a top-flight success In the business she feels offers more opportunity for a woman than most Miss Blair said she learned most of what she knows in her own home. She worked as a custom designer Tor a hometown Philadelphia shop, learning -a good bit about cutting and pattern making and what women and. children want, and then went to Mexico where she designed ready-to-wear for a Cuernavaca shop.

She's been with the Crystal firm for three years.

Must Look Ahead Today she's making a salary most working women of longer experience would envy, and she has a chance of reaching $20,000 or better. But, as she says, it's hard work on a three-season cycle. In January, as the firm began showing its summer line to buyers, Miss Blair was selecting materials for the clothes she'd design for fall. In February she took a quick trip to London

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and Paris—her first—attending tashion openhee Juying some clotnes to “adapt” and con. 8 sng with a London firm with which her de- ito are affiliated. : Sv iY again, with spring still a rumor, she sat down to her sketch pad 0 design tall clothes—approximately 10 suits, sevén coats and five dresses, mostly in J3ritish woolens for the Izod of London line; 40-0cdd blouses, a dozen skirts and some jackets for the siaymaker iine of “separates” and a small part of the approxi mately 75 dresses which comprise ilie line under Crystal's »wn label.

Just a Beginning And the sketches .are just a beginning. "They go to the sample makers, where the dresses and suits are cut and put together mn thuslin te be sure the paper idea is correctly translated to female dimensions. Miss Blair must consult with the taiors and dressmakers, on alterations, oefore i single costume 18 out in the fabric to model measurements, This sample garment—the one which’ will be shown to ouyers in the firm's showroom around the end of May—is fitted carefully to the firm's model. Miss Blair looks that over, 00,

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tulle—are ‘understandably expen=sive. But this year, New York designers are including in their

* [collections any number of enchant. -

ing dresses at a “something new" in cost.

N Many Wed in Blue

“Something blue” for this year's bride may be her own wedding dress. Although pearly white

mahy brides are pip instead pale “ice blue” -“plush pink,” sentimental ne newly introduced in & Hghtweight - but highly, lustrous summer satin. Lace combined with 8atin, all cotton lace in Chantilly-like pattern, marquiset and organdy aré other fabrics of importance throughout New York collections. Crisp rather than frothy of ethereal is a dress of snowy pique, the gathered skirt fully trained, and the bodice sleeved

10. pain ing the wide-spreading V-neckline is a deep Bertha-like collar with

motif echoing the decor on the skirt.

Gauntlets to Match Cap and puffed sleaves are sponsored by many designers of bridal fashions. In most Ine stances, however, matching mitts or gauntlets go along, thus leave ing little of the arm bare. An’ exception 1s a hoop-skirted white satin dress with . bell -puffed sleeves, meant to be worn with short white gloves. Yokes, frequently defined with ruffling of lace or eyelet organdy, give a demure touch to many of new bridal dresses. Some« times, the yoke is in pale blue or flesh-colored nylon or net rather than white. Generally speaking, this year's

Then patterns are cut in the standard sizes and shipped with the fabrics to contracting manufacturers where the actual clothes to be sold in the stores are made as they are ordered. Before the fall clothes are in the stores, however, she'll have bought ner fabrics for spring of 1950 and be busy again at the sketch book.

bridesmaids’ dresses are simply-

Qampried, ‘with full skirts, scooped

wide-open necklines and, ususash waistlines. One in light ‘combines plain and eyelet organdy and has a small ‘ruffled apron over its skirt.

Count on MORRISONS to Stage the ‘Season's Biggest Topper Buy

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