Infinite Variations of "Slim, Straight" Theme Those knowing folks who attend Paris openings and manage to keep their heads straight through it all report to us at a distance that the: tall and slender is as much in favour as ever,, but that each of the great houses interprets the dictum with a difference, Premet presenting—the straightest and tightest models. Short skirts, with longer effects for ovening, with a slight flare, general ly confined to the front are in ord: and in the narrowest of them the necessary width for walking gained by an inverted plai in the beck from the hem to just tre knee, a device which when the wearer is not walking.
Tunics have a tremendous range of style, sometimes straight to within a few inches of the knee, some-mes flaring from the knee or slit in panels. The tailored smock [blouse is a natural concomitant of! this mode and often supplants jackets. Sleeves are generally long and close-fitting by day if not they balloon out into close cuff and disappear altogether by night. Coat sleeves are original in out and trimming, two kinds of fur being used che same sleeve, or fur combined with satin or velvet, Girdles, too, have varied modifications, sometimes they are double Jor even triple, and sometimes they late-very wide as in the silvered leath-. jez belts used by Lanvin, so as to make up for their absence on many gowns. Fur was never used in so many unusual combinations both of colour and far, nor has the craze for trimming by working the skins up The tulle ats.
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