Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 48, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 October 1944 — High-Styled Wool-Knit Apparel Is Capturing Everyone’s Fancy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

High-Styled Wool-Knit Apparel Is Capturing Everyone’s Fancy

By CHERIE NICHOLAS

EX)R greatest achievement in * superb styling, in versatile interpretation, in chic and in charm, the fashion world should confer honors of high degree on the producers of knitted apparel. It’s really amazing the way the knitted arts (both hand and loom) are entering into every phase of fashion from sports togs to formal evening clothes. Never losing a “trick” in way of following up every possible fashion trend, creators of knitted apparel are interpreting the mode in all such newsy items as the knitted weskits which are “last word” fashion this fall, also the very new and smart lumber-jacket styles, likewise classic suits that are so superbly styled one wonders that such things can be actually achieved in knitted wear. Here they are, however, right before our very eyes, so breathtaking and so versatile that enthusiasm for wool-knits and things handknitted has mounted to a new high this season. The weskit theme is taking the fashion world by storm. Shown to the left in the picture is a weskit done in a lacy knit fabric of wool and rayon. This English weskit is chic to the ’nth degree, and because these weskits are so practical and smart looking they are going over big with college and career girls. Gray is the chosen color for this swank weskit, for gray is the featured neutral for suits and sports fashions this year. Worn with fuchsia-colored gabardine slacks as is the model pictured, is one way

of doing it, but worn with a tailored suit the effect is equally smart. Centered in the illustration is a new lumber-jacket costume, a type of dress about which co much is being said and done this season. This two-piece is hand-loomed of 100 per cent wool yarn, which gives it an exclusiveness ' all its own. The lumberjack top is in the fashionable gold color worked with a green monogram, for to give a smart accent designers are monogramming most everything they can nowadays. The straight slim skirt is in a handsome dark brown. The knitted hat is in matching gold. The navy one-piece dress (also very smart in black or a lush fall color) as shown to the right is one of those love-at-first-sight fashions that will create an urge to become the owner of one “just like it.” Here is a glowing example of how fascinating the new wool-and-rayon lacy knit fabrics are. A knit fabric dress as here styled makes a wonderful basic type for colorful accessories, such as the hand-crocheted wool spood and bag done in vivid Mexican colors, which milady in the picture wears with it. Small wonder is it that college and career girls are going all out for knitted things. Scarcely a phase of fashion but what is being interpreted in knitted or fabric-knit ways. A perfect charmer in way of an around-the-clock dress is the slender onepiece done in black jersey with sleeves in gaily colorful striped jersey. Perhaps the most outstanding triumph in this season’s wool-knits is the suits that are so superbly styled, as are also the newest hand-knit suits. If there is one knitted fashion that will capture your fashion more than another it is a suit of the patrician type as shown in the present fall collections. As produced these days a knitted suit refuses to wrinkle or lose its shape though you wear it day in and day out. Then you’ll be wanting knitted coordinates that team a pullover, cardigan and a weskit that will carry you through fall and winter in a blaze of color. And believe it or not, you won’t be able to resist a plaid-knit weskit. They’re stunning! Released by Western Newspaper Uxlon.