Radio doings (Dec 1930-Jun1932)

Daring Colors Erighten Summer Wear Olympia Blue. White, Red and Green Predominate By Thelma Gamble Fashion Editor HEL-lo. everybody! This is the new style editor speaking, and haven't we found just the radio star you would want to see in her new Easter outfits to start this feature out in the right way? Did you ever see Vera Van. KHJ's beautiful new soprano, look cuter? ^Iiether or not you ever saw her or her picture before. I'll bet you imagined she was that pretty! You know, these radio people are very smart dressers. Like their brothers and sisters of the stage and screen, they are exceedingly particular about their dress, and can always be depended upon to choose the latest and most effective new modes. This is the first in a series of style talks in this newly created department, and we hope you like it. Don't you think Miss \ an was a good selection to start off the series with? Vera, a petite blonde, slender, and graceful — she's a dancer, too, you know — is noted for her tasteful selection of good clothes, and you can see that she knows how to wear them! This department is conducted for every feminine reader. If there is anything you would like to talk over, please feel free to drop a note to the department. WHEN Feminine thoughts 1 turn to clothes this spring, invariably it is sportswear. Sportswear this year has a stronger appeal than ever before. Is it any wonder, with the array of new colors and materials, not to say anything of the variety of new three-piece ensembles that are so bewitching that you can almost close your eyes and choose and not be very far wrong? (Of course, that's providing you have your eyes closed when you are standing in front of your right size.) It seems that all styles are very close-fitting this season, and your clothes must "cling to" well or you just aren't welldressed no matter what you choose. Here are a few general hints: All knitted wear in colorful and novelty weaves is good. Predominating colors are Olympia blue and combination colors of white with red trim or blue; in fact, white is especially good this summer and if the costume allows, is bound to pop out in the hat or shoes if it has been neglected on the dress. — Says Miss Otis, buyer of sportswear at Coulter's. Here's a close-up of the accessories icorn with the sportwear on the opposite page. The hand is holding a white kid skin pockethook, rather a corrugated effect, a copy of a French model, created in white and all pastel shades. The suede gloves are something new; six-button length, with perforated flare cuffs, perfect for short or three-quarter length sleeves. The shoes to match were inspired by the Olympic Games, designed by Perugia, of Paris. Like the new nay the ties are used? The other group consists of a ivhite doe-skin bag with metal inlaid top, also copy of a French model. A new six-button flare-cuff glove, stitched in black, with the help of the striking cut-away sandal oxfords, created by I. Miller, would add to any light summer ensemble. (Both groups from I. Miller's Seventh and Broadway stores, Los Angeles.) Coats COATS too. should come in for mention, for even summer evenings are chilly at times. Both the dress coats and the sports coats have interesting necklines, which include new versions of the V. square, round and a symmetrical shapes: the high tight collar, the scarf, the capelet, and the shawl. Sport coats are usually belted, but dressy styles continue to emphasize long lines. Lengths continue to vary from threequarter to the bottom of the skirt. Many women are shouting for joy at the continued length of skirts this season, because even with this talk about curves being the thing for the coming year, nothing is said about bumps or detours! People have even told me I have a nice figure since long skirts have been in. Let's hope they stay in. • Shoe Hints THIS season slipper fashions have changed perhaps even more than gown fashions. Certain it is at least that the new slippers are a radical departure from any shown in several seasons past! Daring, frivolous and utterly bewitching! Cutout for important careers, one might say. IN fact it is this vogue for cut-outs which is the most dominant change in shoe fashions. Even street shoes, usually so severely tailored, show discreet cut-outs here and there. As the formality of the slipper increases so do the open spaces, until in the evening models there is very little slipper remaining. • commands almost attention. Brown, black and blue are all important for daytime wear, used alone, or even newer, in combinations such as brown and yellow, blue and gray or black and white. White for sports is preeminent, and in addition to being combined with black and brown, is sometimes contrasted with red. blue, green or orange. COLOR equal AND speaking of sports, do not overlook the ghillie for active or even inactive sports wear. Low of heel and swagger of line, it is one of the most important types of the season. — Miss Vicrov I. Miller. Page Twenty-eight RADIO DOINGS