California fall fashion shows favor quiet daywear and luxe evening wear
Los Angeles fashion week highlights a restrained day collection emphasizing quality and good taste, while evening wear showcases luxurious brocades lames and laces with extensive jewel trim. Designers George Prllack Helen Ruse Jean Louis Ernst Strauss and Miss Rose present tailored lines, capes, midis, and dramatic coats including a tiger trimmed coat and pink velvet pantsuit.
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Helen Rose
Miss Rose
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Ernst Strauss
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Bonded fabrics spark a textile industry revolution
The piece describes bonding advances in textiles, highlighting new markets and applications. Bonded fabrics offer shape retention, warmth, durability, and versatility for clothing, draperies, and industrial uses. Laminating and knit bonding expand possibilities, while washability remains a key consumer concern to be addressed by bonders.
Fall fashion shifts to classic, coordinated menswear
Designers highlight subdued colors and rich textures for fall 1968. Slacks anchor outfits with coordinated sportcoats and sweaters, featuring cavalry twills, worsted flannel, hopsack, corduroy and blends. Deep blues greens and wheat tones frame dramatic patterns like fine-line stripes and windowpane checks as the new casual elegance.
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Look alike outfits trend sparks twins fashion wave
A new fashion trend uses his and hers look alikes to convey messages through matching clothing. Twin shirts, turtlenecks, sweaters, suits, and beach coats feature a two-piece hood made from two strips. Cotton terry coats soak up moisture and appear in leopard prints and checks. The Singer Company offers leaflets with simple cutting layouts by mail and at Singer Centers.
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Singer Company
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Humprey campaign unveils emerald H-Line dress for volunteers
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey introduces a sleeveless emerald blue and white H-Line dress as the official campaign costume for women workers. Designed by Frankie Welch, the outfit pairs with navy shoes and white stockings and costs 12 dollars. Dresses ship after May 31 from the Office of Women's Activities in Washington.
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Washington, D.C
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Discover America
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White House
Office of Women’s Activities
United Democrats
Humphrey
Seventeenth Street
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