Paradoxes Of Fashion

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31111, 14 July 1966, Page 2

Paradoxes Of Fashion

W.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 13. Some women must want to be men. Some women must want to be birds, giraffes, woolly bears and chickens. Furs want to be fabrics, and fabrics pretend they are furs. This became apparent as the American Designers’ Group presented its autumnstyle programme to fashion writers, the Associated Press reported. Almost every designer has a version of the pants suit, tweedy and tailored, sometimes military and sometimes not some with space helmets, and others with motor-cycle goggles. Two Exceptions There were two important exceptions. Mollie Parnis and Adele Simpson presented some strong arguments for

women being women. Both do their needlework for President Johnson’s wife.

Vibrant colours, youthful smock clothes, and flouncy sheer lace costumes perfect for fun and games was Miss Simpson’s story. Mollie Parnls’s models strode the runway In dome dresses, full shapes which swing wide at the hem, frame dresses which skim across the figure, and blazing jewelled short evening dresses. Back to the paradoxes, the tanners have now learned to treat pelts to be handled as easily as dress fabric. The pilch can be sheered, even shaved, until once-hairy animal coats look like velvet and brocade. The joys of the Persian lamb Industry, for example, are its cut velvet-like dresses and suits once worn by the sheep. And there is no end to the spots, stripes, patches and hues that rabbit fur can take on.

Jacques Tiffeau wrapped his models in “tigers,” “leopards” and “giraffes.” once rabbits. The textile industry, not to be outdone, has turned fabrics into fur. Dyed and patterned, it is stitched into socalled fun-and-games coats. All in all, they provide women with the chance to be animals, just as the feather

hats by Adolpho, Lilly Dache, and all the rest give them a chance to be birds this autumn.