Fashion For Petite "SPRING" INTO ACTION Continued from Page 61 At The Shirt Box Always 20-35% Savings on all men's furnishings and accessories. Men's Furnishings & Accessories M-Sat. 9:30-6 p.m. Thursday til 7:00 19011 W. 10 Mite Parking & entrance in rear 352.1080 (btwn. Southfield Rd. & Evergreen Ad.) SPECIALISTS IN EUROPEAN SWEATSHIRTS • BLANC BLEU • DOLCE • I.D. # • NAF-NAF • C.P. SHADES • USED • REVOLUTION • NOT FRENCH WHY TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD WHEN IT'S ALL AT SUA L O rprl././Afi.jkii ■ MI 855-6566 ORCHARD LAKE & 14 HUNTER'S SQUARE FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 100 Jewish News 0 0 P NEW ORLEANS MALL 10 MILE AT GREENFIELD OPEN 6 NIGHTS TILL 7:00 559-1551 include Harve Benard, Anne Klein II Petites, David Warren in dresses, Sonia knits and Pronto Mode and Alexandria in sports. "We try to dress our customers completely," Rodd continued. "We help them decide whether or not to accessorize with a belt, or to mix colors, or to add a color. It's not luck putting together the right kinds of clothes for a petite. It's a skill that we learned through 30 years of retailing and that we're passing along to our customer." Jacobson's buys clothes for its petite department to cover four kinds of shoppers at its stores, reports buyer Robin Braeunig. Traditional wear is covered by designers such as Leslie Faye, Pendleton and knits by J.T. Martin. Sportswear designs include Jones of New York, Liz Claiborne and Herman Geist. And the up-dated and career customer selects from Anne Klein II petites, Ellen Tracey, Nipon, and St. Gillian to name a few. "We try to get the right mix for all our customers," Braeunig said. "Right now we're concentrating on the career woman with a sense of fashion. This area hasn't been well developed by the manufacturers, but we're working on it. Petite women want to look just as good as their peers. The lapels on their jackets and the shoulder pads might be scaled down, but if done right petites can wear whatever they want." Hilsum (Harvard Road Mall, 11 Mile and Lahser, Southfield) also carries petites. "We're not strictly petites, though," explained manager Audrey Rogow. "We carry petites 2 through 12 and regular sizes 4 through 16 because we found that many women are petite on the top and not on the bottom, or visa versa. A lot of our sports clothes are Liz Claiborne and Gloria Vanderbilt which produce the same line in regular or petite. So one way or another, we're going to be able to fit our customers."