WINTER NOTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 15

WINTER NOTIONS

MODES WITH AN AMERICAN

ACCENT

"JOIN THE NAVY"

The stars and stripes are the newest inspirational motif for seasonable clothes just now. They will go well with the concurrently smart navy blues and ally admirably with all the sailor suit fashions but recently revived.

For instance, it is a new wintertime fashion to "join the navy," with a serge middy dress which has big star buttons to fasten it right down the front. The suit in the sketch has four star buttons on the jacket of navy flannel. For daytime this jacket is worn, as shown here, with a red pleated skirt and a white blouse that is sprinkled all over with a pattern of navy stars. The matching gob cap is of navy flannel, too, with stars studding the front. At night, the jacket looks equally ship-shape when it is worn with a floor-length skirt of offwhite wool jersey.

Gilt stars of the American gold eagle are popular decorations on all types of millinery and are much to be seen

as dress ornaments. Even on fur hats the stars or the eagle are used to supply the bright finishing touch. Most fur hats are made like little sailor caps and worn well back on the head to reveal the sweep of a pompadour wave above the brow. SHOULDERS TO SLOPE AGAIN. A dynamic silhouette has just been launched in the United States by none other than Schiaparelli. It shows the new fluid shoulder line which is styled to give an appearance that is sloping and ultra-feminine rather than exaggerated and mannish. Padding is still used, but it is placed strategically to accentuate the slope of the shoulders. At the moment this novel fashion has but little hold on milady's fancy, but experts declare that before long sloping shoulders will again be recognised as a sign of womanly beauty. Other fashions of the moment that hail from America are the draped skirt dresses for dancing which recall those designed by the famous Paul' Poiret in Paris during the last war. The draped skirt in its newest guise is a compromise between the hobble and the peg-top silhouette. It is most often shown in colourful wool prints with bodices that feature the new sloping shoulders. —M.R.