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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 02, 1948
Page
13
Paris designers showcase plain weaves and rich wool fabrics in the season's collections. Pilot cloths lace cloths and velors add weight and warmth with light browns and greens dominating the palette. A stray paragraph mentions a burglar alarm system in a New York area house and police broadcasts amid prior burglaries.
The piece notes shifting Paris winter fashion with tartan wool and mauves plus purples and touches of blueish red. It highlights lightweight dresses, lightly nip waists, pleats, and moderate coat lengths including redingote and loose straight styles with satin piping accents. It also mentions US smoking statistics and a record 345 billion cigarettes.
Madame Maria Vadas, returning from Paris, urges a porcelain look for summer with pale eye shadows in green blue and amber and coral toned tans. She previews a lipstick wardrobe system matching lip colors to outfits and predicts a shift from the prewar heavy eye to delicate femininity seen in Paris and New York.
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