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After a long chilly winter, lea- very feminine leather suits curv- contrasting leather coat, plus ing in gently at the waist.

apparel brings fashion freshness and fun to springtime:

Ready to -slither through the mew season is a superb collec- tion of leather jackets, coats, guits, dresses and separates, feports Leather Industries of kle and life; the leathers — ed— are supple but strong, eas- | fly worked into a fluid series of garments that will appeal to every woman.

Two and three-piece leather suitx are available in casual end dress styles. Blazer and nor- folk jackets with matching, skirts sport a jaunty air— and ditto Courreges- y- suits in suede or smooth leather with import- ent seam detailing and. short- Short skirts.”

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matching leather boots.

Also suit-able are distinctive Springtime and- anytime, sep-

' combinations of leather- silk and leather-with tweed.

A leather coat may be cut to ‘cling lightly to. the body plummet’ straight down. In the suedes \and creamiest grained leathers, these elegant coats are seen in short \shorter- still lengths. Styling details of importance lare quilting, saddle - stitching, neckline treat- ment, and piping or binding of jored pants and—for later—lea- contrasting leather texture or)

color.

'SLIM_STALK™

closings,

Spring '6 salutes the smash- ing leather dress. Simple but dramatic is a slim stalk of smooth or suede leather with iabove- the- knee hemline, slash- ‘ ied or straight- across neckline,

and immaculate linear construc-

For a softer spring look, there tion. Low (or no) pockets, drop- are pale suede suits with delic- ped waist, tiny set- in sleeves ate dressmaker detailing, lea- are all part of this.Jeather look. ther tunic ensembles, and new Perfect

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with- |arates and leather go together. And lo, the leather jacket leads all the rest. It's at ease with skirts, dresses, jumpers, long pants, shorts.

Whether the style be shirt- waist or cardigan, blouson or blazer, it’s in every leather and most colors. Also sure to gar- ner their share of: the hime-light

or and

skirts, stoles, meticulously tail- ther swimgsuits. SUMMING UP SPRING

: Total look continues on the | young fashion scene, with stock- | ings and tops matched in a var- |

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' GOING WESTERN

favorite, stovepipe slacks.

Bo besie to yoix' wardrobe, ‘and tifully fashionable. Kinits parade at FE.

Western fashion craze sees| buckskin jackets and cowboy | shirts pairing up with another |

Fashion has felt influence of Broadway and movies

in the ection. Roberta | was one of the earliest. Now showing in Canada is Made in| going to Paris until the Paris, with an extravaganza of |minute. Edith *Head'’s Holly- a Paris showing for buyers of |wood costumes out - Paris the whom Ann-Margret is a brand |Paris designers for ultra-sophis- new one. The designer, Louis tication and glamor.

Jourdan, gives her this advice: “Buy the little black number: |Bond image has found its way It will pay the mortgage on the

Margret's supposedly private life costumes have to n be seen to be believed. She has|lections of such designers as dozens of them and dozens, it|Rudi Gernreich. bieael :

AT-HOME SEPARATES

KEEPING PACE

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In late spring and early sum-jpair of shoes per year. The cost | mer beige and mocha ‘are ex- of shoes is reportedly going up pected, to make a good showing. |this year. Some companies are Suede is expected to. far‘outsell raising their prices as much as leather shoes. ~ $1.00. per pair. | The emphasis on shoes, es) The number of women tetering |well as almost ono else, aoe ‘is being put on young gener- , ane This is not nies na ad-|year. The stacked hee! is very verse effect on the sale of shoes |in, as is the idusion. Women just of mature women as they buy /don't go out shopping in” spike

“ |Unpatterned whatever is in style. The opinion anymore.

_| Sports coat is popular | wil sacrifice comfort to Fe

| The most popular shoe for, spring will be| the round toed, il- - llusion' heeled black patent lea- * (ther. That's what the local foot- “4 \|wear houses are p icting.

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QUEBEC’ (CP) — Provincia) police have appealed to police forces in. the United States and Europe for help in identifying the body of a sailor or fisher- man found last September in ithe Gulf of St. Lawrence off the eastern tip of Anticosti Island.

The body, recovered by the Tinie Luc, is being held

vincial- morgue here. A spokesman saifl Monday the Boots have been increasing § | pody is that of a man about 50, lfive feet eight inches tall and

| An upsurge in the popularity style of the shoe appears ‘more | \of unpatterned sport coats is important than the fit. putting them on a par with the| 1 was estimated that th. av- jially a Loong Se erage woman buys about four still rank tops. jand silks make simple yet.color- |

iful jackets.for spring. : | | Blazers; still one. of.. the. Sop \staple styles, use all of these ‘materials in addition to flannel. land now come in a wide variety of colors, besides the ever-popu- jlar deep blue and blacks. : "| The general trend in casual coat colors is from medium to light, backed up with the rich |new darks, with linings brought t. |to the fore through the use of * paisley prints, sport prints and bright colors. .. ,

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By MARGARET NESS

NEW YORK (CP) — Ever since Irene Castle started the short-hair trend, movies, musi- cal shows and a few stage and screen stars have sparked indi- vidual styles that have influ- enced | fashions. -

Irene Castle led the way to bobbed hair. She and her hus-

md Vernon were the dancing sensation of the days before 'the First World War. They wore evening clothes for their ball- room type of dancing.

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seems, of luggage pieces end She didn't even know she was last | ~

And of course the James

into fashions. The sensational | jumpsuits and slinky pants | worn by his girls appear in many of the more extreme col-

Irene’s petal skirts of ankle or half length and her Dutch

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fefs, for ‘‘dyeing,”’ as coloring |

painted eyebrows. Girls im the |

particularly, often delves back |

frics and ostrich trims.

bonnet were copied everywhere. iShe liked easy clothes for her

look. | Probably no other stat has in- fluenced an over - ell fashion viewpoint as much as Mrs. iCastle. But others started trends.

Jean Hariow’s platinum i blonde hair was. immediately copied only by—daring follow

was then called, was considered lalmost ‘‘fast."’ But most girls and women yearned for plati- mum hair. Gradually blondes began to take over” :

. Greta Garbo gave us the Garbd slouch hat. - Marlene Dietrich introduced the trench‘

Adrian were responsible for one Jof the ugliest of fashions—those | “‘football’’ shoulders of the ‘40s. Brigitte Bardot’s pink-and-white

DESERT LOOK PREVAILED

One spectacular movie, Law- rence, of Arabia, united the lentire New York millinery busi- ness into one over-all theme in . Even euch

turbans. Descriptive colors such es sand dune, camel jbrown, deep palm green and desert_pink, spilled through the millinery releases to the fash- ion press. ; , |’ In makeup, Greta Garbo's lwhite face and black

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|above the ‘eyelashes previously fashionable pin land - white complexions. |Murray imtroduced the istung’’ lips and Clara Bow a ‘Cupid’s bow mouth. \ as Clara was \called after her most famous | jmovie, was responsible, too, it \dark-rimmed. eyes and black

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imid - 208 were determined to ismoulder just like Clara. The ‘30s provided Betty Boop-a-doop -and_large round innocent eyes.”

The 1930s are a happy mem- |ory..m most American design- lers’ minds. Sally Victor, |

ito this period. On her silver | lamniversary as a milliner, in

iThirties caps, calling them \Lombards, Garbos and Har- | Hows. They were adaptations of | styles wron then by the | stars, as doeskins and furs. |Three years later Mrs. Victot iwas back in the ‘30s with a isnug Constance Bennett cap 'and-a Norma Talmadge cloche. 'She commented then: ‘All ithese stars wore hats in private life as well as on the screen j;and nobody ever out-glamored | them.’’ Hat | The musical, The Boy Friend,: la delightful-.epoof of the jazz

age, also revived interest in ‘the fashions -of the 1920s-and 1930s.

Several other Broadway mu- sicals have influenced fashions: | |Annie Get Your Gun gave great

limpetus to western casuals. Oliver, ‘the English musical about Oliver Twist, inspired |Oliver caps, worn ragamuffin style.

And My Fair Lady, both ‘in lits etagé and movie versions, lexercised: great influence, not

so much in actual copies of the

styles, as ooh feeling for, ele- : a

gance and a return to rich fab-

Several’ musicals and movies ihave incorporated fashion

is just as important as the

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