The Archive · 1927

New Spring Styles

The now pring tailor-made costumes are neat and trim; the skirts are short and slim, sometimes sometimes with no coats, short and gently shaped to the figure, are fastened with two buttons, while tivo more buttons give a double-breasted look. Another sort of coat is loose with a belt round the hips and pockets. The Tong cent, which is worn over a dress, reaches within a couple of inches of the edge of the skirt; th line is straight and the collar flat The new tailor-made dresses are trimmed only with incrustations, which give'them shape and decorate the seams. On the hips little diamond shapes, darts, and arrows are incrusted so finely that they look like a pattern, Seams are inverted and incrusted. Long, narrow panels un Jong coats open and tun back 20 make pockets. On some coats there is a suggestion of fullness in th back which is corrected in an inset] belt round the hips. Backs are not bloused, but are slightly eased into a tight hip belt,

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