There sSomethingNewj Under the Sun on Martins Fourth Floor Fashions and Beauty Salon for Girls and Boys Take Right of Way in Fulton St. Store Martin's today opened their gay. culm I ul, light he.mted Fourth Floor and it's more beautiful than a movie set! Not only are the Tots to Teen departments a visual triumph hut they contain every-! thing from baby's layettes to teen-aged date dresses. The floor! plan is simply a knockout- there' never been anything like in Now York and probably the entire country! On hand rooms have been especially designed to make clothes selection pleasant. Avnimrl thr.
cu-irlina lint Rnr every popular hat fashion is' shown on abstract modeled heads. Leaving the Teen Shop you'll greet guests at a preview of the new floor yesterday were Fred Zeitz, president of Martin's: Harrv Zeitz. vice president: Mrs Mcta Nosworthv, vice president in charge of fash- find Humptv Dumoty, ion, and Morris Lapidus, the leading the way to Playland. architect who designed the new Martin's is justly proud of this noor. new idea II a won.i The over-all picture one gets colorful room with a big black-if Martin's Fourth Floor is not board and school desks, toys and merely modern, it's futuristic, a milk bar where mothers can Kach of the departments has park their children for a glass of Deen cut to in tne size anil age if the youngster for whom it pas intended.
A mural above the elevators CtS the keynote. Colorful cut-nits trace younger set activities from Latin class to soda store and on to football games and dances. The juke box had to be iven special paint job so that could keep pace with the streamlining of the rest of the floor! ained nurse ill be i Two of the most unusual features of the new floor are the wonderful new barber shop for boys and its twin, the junior beauty snop tor small si "Barber chairs" in the shop are made to look like catchers mitts mounted on baseball bats! They face a huge mirror sur- wall papered with Whn one steps onto the Fourth Floor from the elevator mosaic columns mark entrance to the tot and toddler, rounded by a the funnies. The entire floor, to get back i brie, in a rich DinK with a shops. Each pictures a favorite wame ciPslSn- ne showcases mrv scene.
1 here Jack and lill nn nnp ciHo anH lark- anri the 0l' lighting and the floor ligllt- bein-t ilk nn the nthpr iing is both incandescent and The small girl's shop is to the" "orescent. All of the counters Irft and each is done' in ani.ro- (1 111,11 -1 can easily be pedal- follow-ng re- is done in appro-A really modern touch was added with the "model's try-on promenade." Vis-iline tvkes can walk around a platform and see there in junior sized mirrors. There's a new idea for the children shoe department, too. Not only are there chairs ofj varying heights to suit every' size of child but also a little "stage" for trying on shoes. In line with the swirling lines of the new Fourth Floor the Layette Shop has a concave i counter.
Comfortable chairs up- bolstered in pink and blue leath- Curves Come Back The first of the season's regular Wednesday luncheon fashion shows in the Sert Room of the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday struck a new mood of luxury. The clothes shown represented a nostalgic return to a past where rationing was unknown. The season's new silhouette was revealed, based on old design: woman's curves. Rounded shoul ders, small waists and "hippy' er face it. Above 'the counter imphasi Pasl decades a ehanW hnv shmi-infr mannered elegance.
parachuting earthward. I Color, fabric, design all pro-! claimed emancipation from war's Thp Teen Shon centers about 1 disciplines. There was a notable the Trysting Tree which is of separates done in i-iag rea, "ieace- gray, spixect with bold stripes. Full skirts complemented high-to-the-neek jackets with shoulders rounded. wonderful fake tree with com fortable benches beneath where friends can meet of an afternoon.
Another highspot of the Teen Shon is the record-racked hike In the informal groups box featurine everyone from kick-' frankly full at the hip: Hoagy Carmichael to Benny papering recklessly to the ankles Condm.m. Unexpected mirrors are another unusual feature of this particular part of the floor. Not only are there mirrored columns but there are unexpected looking glasses placed throughout, the shop. Large, comfortable fitting and, like an impudent gesture in a grim pasi, rurnan luucner-bockers, fastened at the knee with silver buckles. BUY U.
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