Wardrobe Forecast for Campus Wear in Woolknits and Jerseys
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas highlights a campus wardrobe trend for 1941 featuring woolknits two-pieces and plaid suits, with emphasis on handknits and jersey dresses. Key items include a tailored woolknit jacket suit, a gold nubby hand-knit dress, and matching hats, aimed at schoolgirls and college students for fall and winter wear.
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Miss Collegiate
Jersey
Western Newspaper Union
Plaid Ensemble Promises Fresh Daïsies For School Days
A plaid ensemble for girls features a Stuart plaid kilt and matching tam o shanter. The outfit includes a jumper skirt styled with a changing blouse to keep daughters looking picturesque each morning with a hint of Scotland in their school attire.
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Scotland
Brown Dominates Autumn Fashion Trends This Season
Brown becomes the outstanding color for fall wardrobes. Designers showcase brown suits dresses and fur trims while accessories from jewelry to belts and gloves emphasize browns. Beige and biscuit tones pair with browns and topaz amber jewelry adds focal appeal.
Sweaters Very Fanciful For Modern School Girl
Enthusiasts on the knitted theme advise a girl starting school to carry at least six sweaters. This season’s knitwear covers utilitarian and social needs with fanciful wool fringe, dangling yarn balls, quilted effects, plaid patterns, bright color contrasts, and formal decollete styled sweaters with embroideries.
Bette Davis Wyler team up for another sure thing
Samuel Goldwyn backs Bette Davis and director William Wyler after The Little Foxes and Jezebel success. Davis seeks legitimate comedy in The Man Who Came to Dinner, while Wyler’s team also produced The Letter. RKO eyes Terry Frost as Killer Mears in The Last Mile lineage and Tim Holt Cyclone on Horseback debut.
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Amuel Goldwyn
Bette Davis
William Wyler
Little Foxes
Jezebel
Bette
James Cagney
Bride
C. di
RKO
Terry Frost
Killer Mears
Bert Gilroy
Tim Holt
Frost
Spencer Tracy
Clark Gable
Gilroy
Gable
Hollywood News and Showbiz Buzz From 1941
Red Skelton tops the list with anticipated audience reactions to Whistling in the Dark. Orson Welles plans September 15 variety broadcasts with Mercury players and The Magnificent Ambersons production. Other notes mention Jack Rochester in Kiss the Boys Goodbye and upcoming stars and projects from Disney Laughton O’Hara Power and more.
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Orson Welles
Hollywood
Mercury Players
RKO
Rochester
Jack Benny
Mary Martin
Walt Disney
South America
Charles Laughton
Tahiti
Maureen O'Hara
Tyrone Power
20Th Century-Fox
Benjamin Blake
National Society of Hardy Families
Metro
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Charles Boyer
John Garfield
Warner Brothers
New Orleans Blues
Richard Whorf
Lunt
Fontanne
Garfield
Wharf
Guy Lombardo
Tom Hanlon
Gene Autrey
CBS
Melody Ranch
Greta Garbo
Melvyn Douglas
Red Skelton
Bob Hope
Hope
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
John Ruskin
Tamins
R Generations
U.S. A
Raleigh
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp
Louisville, Ky
Hammond
Remington
NBC
Red Network
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