Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 27

I Coming Styles Cast Their Silhouettes BY 3IAKY JANE GAUEX Illustrated by Ann Major This was the year that fashions began to change after many rule-bound war seasons. While mai extremes remained in the offing with the death of L-85, the mood and spirit to revolutionize style simmered. The silhouette veered from the straight and narrow to become fluid, drapey, bouffant in localized spots. Curves counted again. Femininity's stock shot up.

Sleeves dived down to the greatest legal depth. At year's end bulk slipped a notch from shoulders to hips. THE RESTLESS search for novelty provoked startling combinations of color and material. Calico mated with tweed. Sequins sprouted on wools.

Moires, taffetas and other elegant stiff stuffs of winter took year-around guises. Accessories hit all-time lavish records. All plastic shoes premiered. Luxury furs, unhampered by law, got all the sweep and parachute sleeves disallowed other ready-to-wear. Royal Koh-i-nur, a Michigan-bred white mink with jet black guard hairs, bowed onto the fashion scene.

Blond mutation of many furs looked newer than naturals. Hand-painting created a mild sensation on black girdles and remained to adorn elegant blouses, lingerie, swim suits. 1 THIS WAS the year that Bruno monumentalized Veronica Lake's "hank o' hair" in a print evening gown that Adele Simpson cut a Sinatra "swoon suit" that Merle Oberon kept pace with the times by wearing a hunk of fused earth from an atomic bomb crater as a jewel. Mrs. Ilarrison Williams got whacked off the roster of the world's 10 best dressed women for the first time in almost two decades.

The Duchess of Windsor squeaked in a narrow tenth. Adrian, Tina Leser and Emily Wilkens copped the American Fashion Critics award for best styling. The staid Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York decreed American fashions grown-up enough to win a place in its solemn confines, IN 1945 women's hats gave men a new lease on jibes. Cha-peaux spraddled to mighty proportions. Air-conditioning revealed topnots.

Hoods lured the young set one step away from babushkas. Nudity achieved new maximums in summer's diaper-cut swim suits with their strapless or one-strap bras. By the time sun tan (and blushes) paled, Mme. Thea Tewi gave the shockable a jolt with her naughty-nice lingerie. Daring cuts and piquant appliqued mottos rivaled price tags for gasps.

Paris jumped back into the design race. Native creators kept busy living up to their new acclaim for the American Look. American style centers revived promotion noises. San Francisco talked about a giant Apparel City. California claimed to have become the nation's second largest style center.

Florida sloganed "America cares what Miami wears." THIS WAS the year that, partly due to dye difficulties, gray went high fashion. Navy budded a season ahead of spring. Jersey, of lesser use to the armed forces, took volume honors. World-consciousness sent designers scrambling for international themes. WTar's end found women forsaking the factory uniform of tailored blouse and work-a-day slacks for elegant lounging attire.

Feminine America read reams on re-appearance of nylon and real rubber but found little. Evening clothes hit the comeback trail, but found the sledding somewhat tough until men's formal wear grew more fifty I yf tifl ft v' i If i jf avauawe. rr, (v OPEN' EVE A TO 9 iVAu Suburbanites Travel over Holidays ROCHESTER Plying to Milwaukee, this week are the L.E. Smarts to spend Christmas with Mr. Smart's mother, Mrs.

E. M. Smart. The Smarts were hosts to Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Hodges at dinner in their home Fri- day evening. The Hodges will leave for Arizona after the holidays. More Rochester travelers over the Christmas week will be Mr. and Mrs. Neil Rosse and their son Harold and Bob Rosso.

They will visit Mr. and Mrs. Frank True, of Armada. GJFTS OF LOVELINESS BY THE RUSSELL G. Warrens were guests of the Morgan Smeads Friday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Leon Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. William S.

Fenner are collaborating on an open house next Sunday in the Robertson home. SAINT SINNER two in-trigulngly different perfumes. Saint: to be loved and adored. Sinner: as mischievous as a sidelong glance, each 6.50 Twosome (one-half ounce combined). 12.50, plus tax.

SHIRLEY PRIESTAP Plas-sey, daughter of the Al Pries-taps, became the bride of Alfred Reeves, of Berkley, Tuesday night. Following the ceremony the couple left on a wedding trip to Chicago, I1L And In Cologne Saint: Delightfully light, wonderfully long-lasting. Perfectly matched to your Saint Perfume. Holiday Parties Fill Hills Calendar i A i i v. mm a Still more parties were scheduled in Bloomfield this week, filling the holiday calendar to overflowing.

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Clausen are entertaining at cocktails in their home this Sunday evening, and the Gordon Deg-ners have planned a party for the same time. Friends of Mr. and Mrs.

E. Breech will join them for hot toddies on Christmas morning. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Love, of Franklin, will bo open house hosts on Dec.

29. The Sam Hemstegers' Christmas party is set for 30 in their, home, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Corkery will also be hosts at a New Year's Eve party. On New Year's Day, Mr.

and Mrs. William A. McHattie will be hosts at an open house. VACATION IN WEST Mrs. Lynn D.

Halsted. with Sinner: Intriguing. Lasting. Posesses same thrilling allure as Sinner Perfume. 4.00.

70 and 14.00, plus tax. JTf0 a WOODWARD AT MONTCALM My nl her daughter, Mrs. Forrest B. Tweedy, of Bloomfield, will leave Dec. 29 for" Phoenix, to be gone for the rest of the winter season.

FREE PARKING AT1 REAR OF STORE Bunday, Dec. 23, 1945 DETROIT FREE PRESS PART THREE.