Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1951 — Page 36

SUNDAY, FEB. 25, 1951

Colorful Costumes to March in B

Whole Family Can Step Out in New Finery Without Crippling the Clothes Budget

AN EASTER PARADE, like any other fashion event, starts long before the day itself approaches. It starts

months before, when store buyers make their treks into fashion markets to eye trends and to round up the garments that

will make style news.

At Block's these days, they're unpacking carton after carton of spring styles which will make their debut on Mar. 25-—Easter Sunday. But it was months ago that buyers hied themselves to

fashion markets to make their selections for a colorful Easter.

parade. It is the fashion know-how they gained in Paris, in

California, in New York, in Texas . . .

and points between . ., .

that is reflected in the merchandise being unpacked now, The bright Easter parade is forecast as the contents of the

cartons and boxes emerge .

. » One of the brightest in years. Pink

tones will cast their blush across the day. So will lilac shades.

Then there are all the golden yellows to be worn by themselves or as sunny accents for navy or gray. Punctuating the Easter fashion story will be the staccato of blagk and white combinations. Best news of all is that the whole family can step out in new finery without “busting the budget.” The array of fresh spring styles includes proof that good fashions don't HAVE to wear astronomical price tags.

Colors Are Gay MAMA, for instance, tan find a Nan Buntly suit, of Burlington's Brooktone suiting, for $13.95 or $14.95, in the fourthfloor Paragon Dress Shop. These suits come in a variety of styles and many colors . . . white wine, lilac, aqua, rose, yellow, red, green, navy, coral, cocoa shades. (Regular and junior sizes, $13.95; half-sizes, $14.95.) Paragon Shop dresses for Easter wear include colorful prints, regular and half-sizes, from $8.98:to $17.98. There are even some pure silk shantungs in deep shades, by L’Aiglon, at $17.95.

Costume Look MORE fashion finds are on tap in the second-floor Budget Dress Shop. Here may be found many of the spring’s important “costume complete” outfits. These have harmonizing jackets or coats to make fashionright ensembles. Typical is a slim sheer crepe frock topped by a pyramid coat in checked taffeta. The latter, with cuffed bracelet - length sleeves, comes in blue and navy checks to top a navy frock, or black and pink checks to go over a black frock. The whole works — dress AND coat — $30.95. Another “costume complete” from Budget Shop uses ribbed tissue in black or navy for its three pieces. There's a cocktall bodice with wide shoulder straps and rhinestone accents. There's a skirt, And there's a jacket with arched hipline and rhine-stone-button tab detail. The trio wears a $24.95 price tag. A Leslie Fay design in the de-

partment has a printed dress with matching jacket and separate skirt . . . all of the same neat “comma” print. Especially effective in royal blue and black, it is $17.95. And $10.95 will bring a twopiece rayon print suit with a peg-pocketed effect peplum. Even one-piece dresses carry out the costume look in their styling. . Tunic dresses are notable for this and the department has one in silk shantung at $29.95.

Junior Sizes ON THE same floor is the

Junior Shop with more fashion .

news, (Note: “Junior” doesn't mean kittenish styles any more + « +» it’s used to designate size —T to 17—and not age.) Outstanding here is a group of worsted rayon suits at $25. The fabric has the resilience of wool worsted and the suits, like wool ones, are fully crepe lined. A belted style, with deep chest pockets, comes in mnavy-and-white, apricot-and-brown or gray-and-gold checks. A classic two-pocket, single-breasted style in gray-and-gold has self buttons. Bias edge detail marks one style. Another all-rayon ' worsted gabardine suit has a pin-check jacket, weskit and skirt PLUS a solid-color (navy or black) skirt. The four pieces — $35. Wool gabardine suits in pastels, bright tones or checks are on tap for $44. Worsted rayon appears agai among Junior Shop dresses. One of the smartest has some tricks up its checked sleeve. Only $16.95, it has . . . beneath its little jacket with bracelet-length sleeves, small collar and turnback cuffs ... a brald-edged jumper dress. The latter, minus a blouse, can serve as a short evening frock. Almost as tricky is a dotted navy rayon surah dress with snap-in dickey which has rhinestone buttons. The scarlet bengaline bolero which comes with this also may be worn with other costumes. The pair— $24.95. 3

Easter dresses to wear right |

on. into summer's scorching weather include a selection

As important as your lipstick—the pretty, pretty bonnet that

gives a holiday lift to your heart and your head, yet hardly

Colorful suit for a colorful Easter .

. . muted pink wool gab-

ardine from Block's Junior Shop is worn with a velvet-faced pink candy straw hat from the store's second-floor Hat Bar. Suit, $39.95;

hat, $7.95.

made of Mallinson’s indestructible butterfly nylon—a puckered sheer type. Washable and colorfast, these are $17.95 and come in jeweled

shirtwaist styles and in shirredskirt, cap-sleeve style. Colors range from navy through lilac, toast, aqua, purple and tangerine.

There's a Touch of Spring In Blouses for New Suits

Final springlike touch for an Easter suit comes with the

blouse that accompanies it.

If it’s a classic tailored suit, it calls for a simple, tailored blouse, perhaps of the shirtwaist persuasion. If it’s a dressmaker suit, a softer, more feminine type blouse

is in order. Both styles, all styles in fact, are ready for Easter shoppers in Block’s second-floor Sportswear Separates Department. And some of them are as low as $3. These are Judy Bonds which fall into the $3 to $5.98 price bracket. The Judy Bonds include nylons, batistes and crepes. Nylon sheers include pastels (such luscious ones as spring green) as well as white. Among batistes are many touched with

eyelet embroidery or lace . . . or both.

~ More batiste blouses of the fine lingerie type are in the Tailor Maid collection. These, at $5.98, are given a fragile, feminine look with lace insertion, tiny tucking and minute pearl buttons. »

Lovely crepes are found in the .

Adelaar group of blouses which wear $5 to $7.98 price tags. Any number of these have lace trims applied with restraint.

touches your purse. These in tissue-crisp imported zenith straw . . . new shapes, flowered, veiled and velvet touched.

Lilac, red, wheat, navy, white, black, pink.

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rightest of Easter Parades

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Fresh Hues Afoot in Shoe Styles

Navy, Red, Patent Are in the Lead

Put your best foot forward on Easter morning and you'll probably discover that it's encased in a navy . . . or a red . . . or a black patent shoe, Those, according to the footwear fashion experts in Block's fourth-floor Paragon Shoe Shop, promise to be the leaders in spring shoes for women. Also in the shoe picture, though, are such tones as almond suede and even some ombre effects in stripping sandals, Cost of stepping out in new shoes won't be so steep, judging by Paragon Shop prices. Foot-Flair styles, for example, are available at $9.95. Air Steps, with their emphasis on airy comfort, are $1095 and $11.95. And smart Carmelettes are $10.95 and $12.95.

Mesh Trim Seen A pretty Foot-Flair style is a navy suede strap with high heel, sling back and a mesh insert on its open-toe vamp. It’s navy again for a calf pump with white underlay beneath perforation trim. The airy ombre sandal in the Carmelettes line gains even more style inferest by having its heel covered in two ‘tones of calf which meet in a vertical line at back There's also a wall-toed platform sling back in this line which comes in blue or red calf accented by white piping. Perforated sling-back Carmelettes pumps are shown in almond suede, in black calf and in patent.

At Mama's Heels Trotting along at Mama's heels in the Easter parade, young daughter is likely to be wearing patent leather strap slippers . . . not Mary Janes this year but double strap styles, they say in Block's third-floor Children’s Shoe Department. Available, in the Smoothies line, with spring heels to size 12, at $5.95, Her brother is likely to go for a moccasin-toe oxford in brown (or brown and white). These he can get, in the Dr. Posner line, for $6.50. And Pop, bringing up the rear, will probably be wearing wing-tip brown oxfords, Jarmans, which they have in Block's street-floor Men's Shoe Department, for $1285 to $14.95. (Wing-tip browns go with everything from semigports to business suits.) Or, if Pop prefers, he may.go

for a black oxford with French

toe . . . particularly if he chooses a blue suit for Easter.

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WHEN it comes to Easter coats.for the small

fry, the kids seem to be

joining the navy. At least, they are as to color for their Easter toggery. Navy is way in the lead on the racks that hold the pint-sized garments. Nevertheless, there are other color schemes around , . . probably for the individualists in the lot. Shepherd checks are numerous. So are small plaids. And so are reds, good old fireman reds, at that, All of these may be found in the third-floor Children's 8hop at Block's.

Coats Grow, Too

NEAT feature of many of the kiddie coats at Block's is the “grow-with” idea. These coats can be let down as the young sprigs sprout skyward ... and thus the cost of the garments can be spread over more than one year's clothes budget. Typical of this idea is a Bambury Add-A-Year coat in navy broadcloth for a little girl. In gored princess style it is double breasted and has white nylon collar and cuffs’ for a springlike touch. In sizes 1 to 4 it is $25 with a bonnet. In sizes 3 to 6x, it is $25 and the matching hat is $3.98. Algo for a little girl is a navy all-wool crepe coat fastening with a double row of pearl buttons. The white pique collar of this Grow-A-Year style is detachable . . , and there's a halfbelt in back. Price for sizes 1 to 4, with bonnet, is $13.98, Sizes 3 to 6x in the coat, without a hat, are $13.98,

Dresses 'Go With' THE DRESSES to go with navy coats are intriguing, too. One is checked tissue gingham in navy-and-white with red accents in the ricrac, piping and ruffled trim. The puffed-sleeve style has a trim little piped collar ... . and the price tag for sizes 3 to 6x is $3.98.

ly balk at donning a coat with one small suit they have in the department. And it would be a shame to cover it up, so the wearer will probably yearn for a balmy Easter Sunday. This, of wrinkle-shed checked rayon, has a pleated jumpertype or suspender skirt and a minute cape with red lining and zed buttons. Cute... and only 3.98. }

Any little girl would probab-

Small Fry 'Join the Navy’

ime

» White accents are as “portant in the Easter costumes of small fry as in those for grownups. Here a very young miss wears a navy coat with white pique collar, and navy felt roller with white pique

binding. Both from Block's third floor Children's Department, the coat is $13.95, the hat $2.98. :

Sis and Bub suits also will march in the Easter parade. Block's department for small fry shows several of these, Especially attractive made of butcher linen . . . all washable. The boy's suit has suspender pants an® tailored jacket while sister’s suit in the same fabric (but with embroidery trim) has suspender skirt and bolero jacket. The boy's outfit comes in brown, navy, gray, green or red and is $5.98. Sister's companion suit, $8.98, is available in gray, red, aqua or maize.

are some

Accessories play follow-the-leader in fashions for any season and this spring is no excep tion. White touches are important on costumes and in hats . . . so Block's trot out a vast array of spanking white gloves to “go with.” . Pink and lilac are important in costume colors, so there are

pink and llac gloves, too.

Accents for Costumes

Patent shoes shine on the fashion horizon—so along come patent belts and bags. Red shoes and hats are in the limelight, so there are red handbags. Color is rampant everywhere, 80 it invades the costume jewelry field where there are rainbow tinted pearls as well as colored stones.

On the Level,

Spring Hats

Are Smarter

Little Hats Sail

On. an Even Keel

Hats are sailing on an even keel this spring, with nary a sign of list to port or starboard. Or, forsaking an old salt's ter minology, they're being worn on the level for the smartest and newest look.

The little hats to be donned

in this fashion are starred Block's second-floor Hat and in the fourth-floor ‘Paragon

Shop, for example, they range: from $5 to $10.95. x Probably the most favored style is the sailor with pillboxes*s

numerous. Visor types also are’ good. 4§ Whatever the shape of thes hat to top an Easter costume;’s

and tricornes giving it a for popularity. Cloches are stil

you can count on a feminine

flowery, springlike look . . . &%

pretty look. ¥

Credit for part of this goes®

to the gay colorings of man hats—the pinks, the lilacs, th

mimosas, the whites. Navy hats are spruced up with colorful of’

touches of flowers. And, course, comes spring, come hats. i Straws lead the parade, pa ticularly Zenith straws ($5

$5.95). This is the shiny basket«'

weave straw resembling “cans dy” straw. Also popular sewn milan-type braids. Many of the new hats have narrow bandeau beneath the brim to make them rest a bi higher on the head . .. a idea where the hat has “f

ward movement” bringing it di«"

rectly above the brow. ] New note in flower trims

chantment to the Easter

net, there are multitudes of i

veils, most of them tie ve

A 'Switch'

On Hairdo

New Xaster bonnets may call for new hairdos, particularly if the wearers’ tresses are being allowed to grow a bit this spring. Whether it's to hide straggly growing ends, or just for a change of noggin scenery, how about a pin-on chignon? Spotted in Block’s Hair Glamour Bar (street-floor No-

tions Department) are pin-ons

chignons of REAL hair for $6.95. These come in five prefashioned styles, but they can be washed and restyled to suit

the wearer's whim.

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SECOND FLOOR

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