Shop Talk

S. Klein on the Square. Looking back twenty-eight years is like looking back one day to Mr. Klein, but it is a day that was years in the making. His retail business experience started with a little store where he had nothing, save his amazing style sense. Every dress, skirt and suit was made to order. No deposit was required on clothes that were being made. You simply ordered what you wanted and there was no obligation to take it after it was completed unless you were thoroughly satisfied. His confidence in people was extraordinary and on this his reputation was built. Today his hige stores on the Square are a vindication of his faith in people and their faith in him. Each month a tribute is paid to his uncanny style sense by Professor Northrup, of the Columbia School of Design. With a group of students she visits the store, allows them to pick out the clothes they feel are right for them and then anxiously awaits Mr. Klein’s opinions and criticisms.

Feeling that spring, shorter working hours, week-ends and the like are here to stay for awhile, Stern’s have done the sporting thing. They are making a specialty of country clothes. Those well tailored jackets in solid colors or loud horse blanket plaids that look so smooth and mannish are there with contrasting skirts. Pig grain jackets too, the leather news of the month, in natural or white, are indispensible for cooler days. Shirtwaist fashions, pastel tweeds and an outrageously attractive lection of knits, enough to turn ## head, are in abundance, ##are inexpensive, so this is ## chance to bring your sports ## up-to-date.

There is very little to these ## Song Fashions” now at ## in Simon Co. Very little ## they are for very little ## You’ll find a merry ## of imported organdies ## ties, piques and flowered silks that seem to have been born in a daisy patch and just breathe May and happy laughter. They’re for tiny toddlers from two to six.

Yesterday in search of adventure we slipped into Elsie de Wolfe’s and were happy to find that there will always be a reward for explorers. Her shop is such a maze of loveliness. Lamps, mirrors, vases and a hundred and one utterly unique gifts and accessories are there. One vase in particular caught our fancy, it was completely mirrored to make even the brightest flowers brighter. A lamp of heavy solid clear crystal balls on separate concave bases of silvered cromium was the answer to “let there be light.” There is no end to the collection of right gifts at the right prices, so we advise you to take advantage of Miss de Wolfe’s invitation to just drop in and look around. You’ll thank us.

More distractions. . . Altman’s “Miss Swank” a non-twist silk slip with the new moistur-pruf panel, $4. . . . Longchamps sizzung chicken platters. . . . Shoecrafts’s “Gringo” a shoe with a style all its own, slightly Mexican and very devastating. . . . Saks 5th Avenue, luxurious Zibeline perfume, new in sport size and a perfect miniature of the chic, flat parent flacon, $2. . . . Kathleen Mary Quinlan’s facial. . . a soothing warm mask of liquid herbs, aromatic ointments and a bracing astringent, perfect at any time, any hour and marvelous for building up that “come what may” confidence. . . . McCreery’s annual sale of their exclusive “Marillyn silk Crepe” at $1 per yard. . . . Taffy, the new and grand spring shade of hosiery, a neutral beige with a hint of grey and a hint of tan, a regular politician that agrees with everything you put on from white up and down, featured by Lord & Taylor. . . . Lapel jewelry and special scarf clips, devised to enhance swagger suit styles, launched by Saks 5th Avenue. . . . Julian’s self setting permanent that stays set, each wave styled to create and enhance charm and beauty, now $7.50. . . .