41.   The European designers who showed resort collections last month concentrated mainly on citified styles in lightweight fabrics for midwinter shoppers who might want to perk up their wardrobes.

42.   The move by American designers to pre-empt the European fashion calendar by showing fall collections this week is wreaking havoc across the Atlantic.

43.   The resort-holiday collections being shown this month for delivery in October, November and December are geared as much to holiday finery as to beach wear.

44.   The third time a designer showed a collection with models wearing flats instead of heels, a trend was in the making.

45.   This season she showed a collection of quiet fire rather than fireworks.

46.   This weekend, Italian designers begin showing their collections in Milan.

47.   When she showed her collection to Edwin Barber of Philadelphia, he headed to Mexico and assembled a similar selection that is now in the Philadelphia Museum or Art.

48.   When designers showed their resort collections, they used color monochromatically, not in bold combinations, which may be why women are responding positively.

49.   When New York designers showed their fall collections, almost everyone included a maxicoat with matching pants, or topped pants with coat-like jackets.

50.   When the designers showed their black-and-white collection of stiff skirts and bouffant ruffs in Paris last January, they used ultraviolet light to create the same effect.