Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 42, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 September 1939 — Miss College Girl Is Engaging Attention of Fashion Designers [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Miss College Girl Is Engaging Attention of Fashion Designers

By CHERIE NICHOLAS

IT’S no secret as to who has been * chosen to play the part of leading lady on the stage of fashion during the early fall days—College Girl is her name. To this important personage all fashiondom is paying homage at the present moment. On every side you are reminded that the idea is motivating to cater to the whims and warcjrobe needs of the girl who is going away to school. The style program arranged for Miss College Girl and her younger schoolgirl sister fairly teems with excitement. For instance, there is the new bustle dress. The idea has taken the collegiate set by storm;. The quaint bustle dresses that grandmothers galavanted in as girls in the ’Bos are actually proving inspiration for frocks that the modern girl w r ill wear this fall. ' The highpoints of these silhouettes are being revived such as waistlines of vanishing inches, slim corseted midriffs and wide back-swirling skirts interpreted in novel bustle treatments but modified so cleverly they are made thoroughly practical and wearable for this day and age. Then there i» the new vogue that calls for a velvet or velveteen jacket worn with a gay plaided wool skirt or a contrasting or matched solid color as fancy dictates. The decided military air that the new fashions take on is also a big factor in the new mode and most outstanding of all is the im-. portance attached to fine materials. These and other significant style trends were revealed at their glamorous best in an advance fall fashion revue staged by the Style Creators of Chicago. The three models pictured were especially applauded by the audience of visiting merchants as fashions that are representative of what the up-to-date fashion-alert girl will be selecting for her going-away-to-school wardrobe. The clever little date frock of shepherd check velveteen shown to the left in the group is sure to enjoy

a gay campus career, its cunning tunic bustleback and its full circu-lar-cut skirt gives it swank and distinction such as collegiate fashionables demand. Its red suede belt supplies a fetching dash of color. Approval for the new bustle-back dresses is assured for being interpreted in simple words, bustle-back is merely a way of saying “back fullness” achieved m ingenious ways that are conservative and wearable without being overdone. The suit to the right is very stylerevealing, stressing as it does the continued triumph in the mode of richly colorful striped woolens. The stripes, the plaids and the marvelous artistry with which designers combine them with monotones in related tone simply hold one spellbound. The gorgeous striped wool that fashions the costume suit keys to the smartest fall colors, harmonizing vibrant greens with luscious blackberry tones. The skirt is allaround pleated. The boxy jacket tops an emerald green velvet blouse closing with novel key-and-keyhole ornaments An oversize quill tops : the moss green sailor hat. You may expect to see gav little P velvet jackets dotted all over the ' college campus. The girl centered | in the picture wears a snug black | velveteen jacket quite military looking as so many of the newer sash- ! ions are, with a plaid pleated skirt 1 that introduces an artful ,blend of j grape, pink and yellow tones, climaxed with a sweater in warm yellow hues.; Juniors, likewise college sophisticates, simply dote on the ' new plaids and stripes. A Scotch cap of black velvet with satin ribbon streamer. together . with the plaid carries the message that fashions for young folks have gone very j Scotch this season. • Released by Western New&p ipei l ruon i