The Archive · 1920

Tue Germ oF THE Busts

Foulard dresses are being made in one piece and, according to some of the winter designs, with perhaps rather more fullness on the hip and rather more shortness of sleeve. Necks, on the other hand, are distinctly higher. While a bronzed and weather-beaten neck may be natural, a bronzed and weather-beaten V or square or round on the neck is held to be too geometrical for estheticism pure and simple. The bodice of the dress is on the fitting side, though it does not really fit closely, and while it is perfectly plain, there is a sugges. tion of waist, rather as though it wore a cross-over bodice with the

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