Glamour of Hollywood (Apr 1939 - May 1941 (assorted issues))

American fashion portrait Tliis year's clothes reflect a new sparkle from age-old Americana HAVE A FURRED HAT FOR a portrait of yourself this season look to your own, your native land. For whether your taste runs to the dis¬ tinguished or the demure, it will be Amer¬ ican . . . American-inspired, Americandesigned. Your fabrics may not be home¬ spuns, but their warp will know more of the mighty Mississippi than of the Seine; their woof be familiar to the towers of Manhattan rather than the factories of Lyons. You’ll top your curls with a fur cap like Daniel Boone’s, and your cos¬ tume colors may well be those first mixed by the American Indians. You'll be an American, my girl, original, with just the least dash of the aboriginal for fun, and you'll be proud of it! But you won’t look hardy or bitterly the pioneer. You will look feminine, you will be fascinating, with a body that’s supple and slim. From your head to your toes you will be consistent. Your hair will be brushed up from your forehead in a gleaming pompadour. Your hats will be large, bold, dramatic ... to give further accent to your slim, slim dress. Or again, your hat may derive from the kind your own grandmother wore when she rode in a sleigh to Thanksgiving dinner . . . small wisps, no bigger than bird’s wing or flow¬ er to perch above your brushed-up hair. THE crisp air of an American autumn will find you walking briskly, but with prim little steps aware of your newly nar¬ row skirt . . . that is, if your suit is one of the snug, fur-trimmed variety, with a jacket that comes way down over your hips to button tightly, smoothly. If you’re the active American girl type, you may prefer the boxy tweed jacket over a modified straight skirt . . . topped off with a three-quarter coat. Day TRY A CASUAL AMERICAN -GIRL SUIT time wools sport brilliant new color com¬ binations . . . like beige and black, red and dark green, in fabrics as soft as a Summer zephyr and as warming on a chill October day, or later, colder ones. Fur doesn’t confine itself to your head, either. Besides the important news in fur coats (see it on pages 58 to 61 of this issue), there will be fur muffs and bags, fur patches as large as a knapsack on otherwise barren coats. As for the hats, they may be all of fur, or have fur brims, crowns, bands. Even gloves are “tetched” with fur. Leopard takes the spot-light as the most glamourous of furs, good with black, green, the new browns. FOR evening your silhouette remains much the same, slim, perhaps swathed, although full skirts still flirt about young legs. There’s news in the covered look, reminiscent of candlelight and tulle shawls; there’s news too in the decolletage that has a hint of Directoire daring. Eve¬ ning chic demands courage in color . . . under black, for example, show patches of crimson, orange, emerald green, or a bright, bright blue. Jewelry will be bold; ornaments, startling. Your taste can be either nostal¬ gic in jet and paillettes, or savage as a war dance in feathers and beaten metal. Color for all time is unusual. For very special evening occasions, bloom sweetly in pale-grayed blues and shell pinks. If you will startle, use vibrant red, warm yellows with black. But remember that above everything else, your silhouette, the colors you wear, the imaginative fire that runs through your costumes . . . all, all are made for you, the American girl, all reflect the newly discovered richness of America. SLEEK EVENING FASHIONS FUR MUFFS ARE SMART Rising Star Fashions * (opposite and on the following three pages), also at the Manhattan Shop, Hartford, Conn. For the names of other stores in other cities, turn to page 78 20 LEMUS