Will "Empire Look" Guide Women's Fashions In Autumn Clothes?

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1948, Page 8

Will "Empire Look" Guide Women's Fashions In Autumn Clothes?

THERE is» a suggestiQh of yet another pow loojc in the new Autumn clothes paraded to 3,000 buyers, many froni the British Doniinions ^,nd colonies in Britain for the British Industries Fair, diplomatic representatives and the Press in London's Mayfair Hotel, states the ^Recorder,"

THESE ^re the models which will appear in the large stores of the whole of Great Britain and in Canada, Anstrnha, SQuth Africn, New Zea,land and the United States. At least two tiress 'hauses introduce it and cali it tjie Empire line. They will lift their waists to a line just below the- bust, a fashion re=vived from the Empress, Josephine, who adopted" it in the late . 18th century Arthur Banks shows it in an e'venlng dress ' with a. high waist coming " just below the bust. ' JaegeiV WQi'ld-known makers of popular clothes, show it in a coat with a rouleau outlining the higher waist at tho .front biit dipping back almost tq normal waistline at the back. These two models are among the 13Q . shown by 50 of the lea'ding British makers-up, and predict the way fashion might go in a season or two. The newly adopted . mode'-ty to women's dress appears in coats of princess line; large, softening shawl and cape collars, collars of the highwayman and the poet Byron type. Into the princess line coat sometimes creeps the suggestion of a suit when a hip seam assimilates a iacket hem.

The skirts to these coats are made(With actual fullness, in pleats chieflv; apparent 'fullness by cutting the front on the srraight and the back on the bias; or they begin, in 'the tent coat, with bulk from the shoulder Jine and continue ever widenjng to the hem. Much in the minority is the dipping hemhne we knew in the 19291930' fashions. It occurs in jackets more'often than skirts, but in only ope of 130 models I saw does It take a dip at the back of the sklrt hem. The puritan look appears m afternoon dresses in large white collar and turned back, buttonlng cuffs for sleeves just below tne elbow.