PAGE FOUR Military Styles Lead Fashion Parade For Spring And Summer Brown, Tan, Khaki Are Predominant Colors Fashion trends have never been so clearly defined as they are this spring and for the com ing • summer season. One of 'the most important themes in men's apparel is the turn to military colors and styles. This trend is most ap parent in footwear, where monk front and blucher styles are re ceiving wide attention. Curi ously enough, however, these shoe styles have been adopted for army wear from civilian use. Olive drab khaki, a color shade which was used in cam pus hats, is fast springing into national prominence. 0. D. is appearing in both 'covert cloth and Cavalry twill for 'topcoats and rainware. In general, the color trend is to natural tans, browns and creams, running from a pale yellmir to cocoa brown. These shades are being used in every kind of men's clothing. In shirts, the newest pattern trend is checks. The wide spread collar is becoming in creasingly important. The new casual collar—a long, . pointed collar with a low band—is ex pected to be one of the leading styles by early summer. Foulard ties will continue to be the biggest selling type. Emphasis is placed on corn and service blue shades. Service blue is a light blue*-gray shade which was originally adopted by the Royal Air Force. Rainwear has become a more important part of the college man's clothing picture because of the diversion of styles and fabrics. , In shirts and slacks, the belt to match idea is definitely out of the picture and colorful sport belts are in. Clothing fabrics will furnish many ideas in textures and col ors for the new 1941 lightweight felt hats. White Keynotes The Summer Wardrobe is to combine a white suit with a few extra pairs of odd slacks. With your white coat and a pair of contrasting trousers you're ready for almost any informal function. • 1941 Lion Coats Head Latest Campus Styles With Smart Lines • Pompous seniors walk along the mall collegiately enveloped in Lions coats while bewildered juniors moodily contemplate their smart appearance and think of the chic blazers that were to have been their glory and honor. With the cancelling of junior blazer orders the seniors assume all honors for local, campus-made fashions. The Nittany Lion entered the fashions field last week with numerous mountain cats adorn ing breast pockets, shoulders, and back panels of the '4l men. Petty Girls rub shoulders with Donald Ducks and names by• the hundreds are seen entwined in love knots and bleeding hearts. The 1941 Lion coats need no decoration, however, with their handsome canvass material and formfitting lines that fit Adonis and bokworm alike. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Sport Shirts Come In Checks, Plaids Startling checks and plaids, eye-opening reds, greens, and yellows, carry over from the rough winter sports shirt and make a refined appearance in new spring creations that are a combination of comfort and col or display. Strong competition for the currently popular "firemen's shirts" however, will be cool off shades of white and tan, The short-sleeved sports shirt, for many years the favorite of dusty and weary athletes and BMOC's is predicted by experts, to yield before a new style of long-sleeved sports shirt. Otherwise, no startling de parture from models of last year is expected. Expansion of the color field will be perhaps the biggest change. Sand, can ary yellow, blue and other pas tel tints will introduce the ac tual spring color invasion. Oxford cloth and gabardine will be two of the leading ma terials to carry the new spring styles. LightVeight madras and broadclothes will also have their favorites. Hot spring days will no long er find the wearer of a street shirt choking and gasping in the heat and humidity. Trend for this type of shirt is toward increased comfort. The sports shirt, on the other hand, leans toward -. the street shirt with standard collar sizings manu factured instead of "small," "medium," and "large" •labeling. Button-down and spread col lars are favored by college men. Snap fasteners Hold Lightweight Underwear In Spring Spotlight Snap fasteners will hold a dominant Piissesion in collegiate underwear as the red flannels are packed away in mothballs and new lightweight - ' knit shorts appear. In an attempt to get the col legiate world into the habit of wearing underwear tops, mer. chants have stocked shirts with V-necks iuitable for wearing with sports jackets and open' sweaters. . Bold-patterried, rainbow-hued woven shorts will satisfy the more lively college man and will serve* to 'impress the room mate with' one's - artiStic. yens. New non-climb models, de signed • especially . for * . collegkate wearers who . spend long - hours in classrooms and 'Cin . the pa rade-ground, are .important trends towards cornfort. in : und er:Orli-writs: • . •s HoNad an* tiftkiOdIZOLThecOOPCOWFOMPUI7.I7 • 'eo 6 / 1 430tilt : "Ji0iNG comPANY4 , OO ( APA'OOI4I "Romer SERVICEIO.STATECOLLEGALL'anii Collegian Tells All —About Spring Fashions Collegian is . devoting three pages of this- issue to spring fashions with the thought in. mind that the subject of clothes is vitally important to almost every Penn State man and wo man. On page three will be found an announcement of a fashion show to be given in one of the local theatres tonight and to morrow night. Other stories will tell about women's day dresses, evening wear and ac cessories. For men, pages four and five are given over to the latest trend in spring and summer wear. Sport clothes, formal wear, hats, gloves, 'and all the other things necessary to the well-dressed man receive care ful attention. We Don't Have A Cut Of This Smoothie, Only A Description Only one thing is lacking in this fashion section—a picture of some prominent smoothie decked out in the latest and sharpest cre ations. However, as we don't have a picture of any of the numerous campus hotdogs, the next best thing to do is just pretend. Let's call our smoothie Jim. Jim is strolling down the main campus walk, on the way from Old Main to the Corner Room or vice versa. Starting at the top and working down, he is wearing an olive• drab - hat of Cavalry twill. He boasts one of the new Sus sex yellow shirts. His tie is brown foulard with a more-or less conservative pattern. It After "lab:... pause and 406 TASTE ITS QUALITY refrssheswith ict:cold WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 1941 (overt Topcoats Are Well-Liked The covert topcoat is well up among the leaders this spring, particularly for moderate form al wear. This material has been grow ing in popularity in college cir cles during the past year until now it is stocked in every up to-the-minute clothing shop. The first choice model is the single-breasted fly front, with either peaked or notched lapels, made along plain lines and de void of decorations. ' Tweeds, chevoits, and fleeces should also have another good spring. They are also single breasted with regular or con vertible collars. Natural should ers, raglan or split sleeves will emphasize the college mode. The tendency is toward short er coats, 44 inches or there abouts. There is also a great demand for water-repellency in spring coats of this general type, which may be used for sports or campus wear. Camel's hair coats are grad ually declining, and though the demand for other materials may fluctuate from season to season, gabardines are always in • style and always in good taste. could very well be lightweight wool, patterned with horses or dogs. Jim's suit is gabardine or cov ert cloth. We can't tell. It is brownish gray, single-breasted, three-button. Jim's. shoes are either of the common saddle va riety or brown and plain-toed. His socks are Argyle with a loud pattern.. Jim's topcoat, if it's cold enough to wear one, is one of the very popular lightweight, water proof gabardines. Coca-Cola has a delightful taste that always pleases. Pure, wholesome, delicious,— ice-cold Coca-Cola satisfies -completely. So when yOu pause throubhotit
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