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PAGE TWENTY IWO BY MARGARET NESS HE fact that we do producé good Canadian fashions has too long been obscured by universal interest in top name designers in Europe and the U.S.A. This was borne home to me again at the recent capsule showings of some 45 Toronto manufacturers The event also made Canadian fashion history, For the first time fashion writ ers from B.C, to Newfoundland were invited to see Canadian fashions as guests of the Dress Manufacturers Guild of Toronto in conjunction with Toronto coat and suit manufacturers, Representing Thomson newspapers in Ontario were Mrs, Myrna Johnson, Galt Evening Reporter, Miss Edythe Cunningham, Guelph Mercury, Mrs, Betty Meakes, Sudbury Star, Mrs, Gladys MecGerrigle, Sentinel-Review, Woodstock, Mrs, Barbara Jelbert, Time mins Daily Press, and Mrs, Jo Ald. winckle, Oshawa Times, The fashion collections certainly re- confirmed my views on Canadian-made clothes, First, the styles are designed Oatmeal tweed (fitted coat by Rurie and Saunders "ONTARIO TODAY Fall toque in purple velour " with the average Canadian woman in mind, She definitely has good fashion sense but is, I'm inclined to think, a trifle too conservative, This tends to force the Canadian manufacturer to modify many interesting fashion trends, He has to depend on volume trade. For example, as you have been read- ing over and over again from Euro- pean and American sources, the trend is to "ease" , ,. to the loose overblouse, to the lowered waistline, Naturally the Toronto manufacturers have included these trends in their Fall lines but, in many cases, have added a belt, This enables the purchaser to be in style but also to have a natural and defined waistline, I can't say I entirely approve, I do SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17 Dropped waist in knit ensemble by Front Page Fashions Beige wool, double collar with mink by Primrose Garments feel that" the overblouse should be worn as intended, Women whose figures cannot afford the by-passed waistline do not add anything to the overall impression by adding a belt, But in the adaptation of one fashion trend, the coat manufacturers have my entire admiration, This is the short sleeve, Obviously, late Fall Canadian weather was never taken into considera» tion by its Paris originators, Nor can, the look be merely achieved by turn. ing back a cuff, It is a cut-off, uns, compromising short sleeve, Ingeniously the Toronto manufacturers solved this problem with a telescopic sleeve, The lower part simply shoves up under the top fullness, It was ideally shown by Junior Miss Garment in a black coat with white mink cuffs at elbow length, Come really cold weather and the teles. copic lower sléeve is. pulled down to wrist length, The mink cuffs still pro- vide the fashion look of the elbow length trend, This is style adaptation with a flair and if a coat is in your Fall-Winter budget, do keep this feature in mind, Braid trim is an- other new Fall trend, It can be both fashionable and sufficiently restrained to need no Canadian modification, This was shown by Hudson Cloak with wool braid edging on a reversible coat, one