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Hawes, famed stylist, to today's trick fashions
the entire trend is toward sensible comfort. Anything that interrupts that trend is artificial, false, no good. Take the hats!"
"I wish I could, Miss Hawes — I wish I could throw them all away, or do something with them."
"Nobody has to do anything with them. Trick hats are on their way out, thank goodness. And, also, it won't be long before you've seen the last of those shoes with no backs and no toes." x
"Miss Hawes, you're wonderful. I knew you were the women's style authority, but I didn't know you were the husband's friend."
"Of course I am! I say the family
clothes budget should be split fiftyfifty between husband and wife."
"Yes, but in the average family, would a wife be well dressed on a fifty-fifty budget?"
"Mr. Trout, any modern woman can be well dressed at any price as long as she can afford one set of clothes. Recently, I made an experiment about the cost of women's clothes. I carefully checked the prices of three different women's outfits. The first belonged to an opera singer whose clothes on that particular day cost more than $200. The second girl I checked was a photographer's model, and she'd / paid $125 {Continued on page 64)
■ Nor has the budget anything to do with being well dressed, says Miss Hawes. Below, Helen Ward in a black camel's wool coat whose lynx cuffs serve as a muff, and in a jumper dress and sweater.
■ "Lucifer in Starlight" is the romantic name of Bea's bouffant black tulle evening gown. But no matter what it's called, Miss Hawes points out, it will be just as stylish next year as it is now.
Photos by John Schuts, CBS