Big year for native fabrics
Bigger than ever in this winter resort season is Indian madras. Now a perennial, madras dyed in muted colors peculiar to India's vegetable dyes, came into this hemisphere by way of the Caribbean (SI, Jan. 23, 1956) and is now dominant in all caregories of resort apparel—slacks, shorts, shirts, dresses, dinner jackets, at-home pajamas, ties, cummerbunds, belts, even shoes and ditty bags for sailboats. It has paved the way for other fabrics with a similar rough-crafted look: batiks in brilliant Javanese and African prints are one example; sturdy work fabrics such as duck, denim and ticking are others. Shown here in Charlotte Amalie are shore clothes, for socializing or spectating at the Go-Kart races. They will be as much at home on northern shores this summer.
New jackets are (left) Dacron-and-cotton gingham ($37.50, Haspel: Chipp, Inc.) and Paul Simpson's duck blazer piped with hemp ($35, Cricketeer: Burdine's Hathaway shirt, $9).
Popular pants at Go-Kart races are batik and madras. Man's batik pants at left, also shown close up at right ($18.50, Corbin: Paul Stuart), are worn with ecru knitted shirt ($13, Fashion Hill). Girl's long pants are batik and madras ($16 each, Gordon-Ford); man's are madras ($18, Gutstein-Tuck). Blazer ($15) teams with shorts ($8, White Stag), madras cap from Gobbi.
Source:
Sporting Look - SI- 1/11/60
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