Bewildering Variety in Season's Gowns By Elizabeth Pepys No, we are not adopting. the reprehensible habit of referring to feminines as "skirts." We, are truly literal as we wind our way about' through the delightfully varied collection of winter models and advance spring styles "The pleated skirt persists. Age cannot wither it appears for no fess an authority than Vionnet still using the all round, pleated skirt for jeune fille models and Harry Lichtenstein is adapting the same iden for simple theatre frocks. Pleated panels, and inverts in numerous de: the monotony of the often provide the necessary fulness, sayin BOUFFANT ALWAYS WELCOME.
As in Russian grammar, one starts with a rule and ends with four paragraphs of - exceptions The fundamental premise is that the skirt ig straight and furly harrow. Immediately up jumps the period frock to assert its claim to distinction and we have to say that the bouffant is its own exotise for being and will always received in picturesque society. However, in nine cases out of ten the general effect will be found to be pillar-like, no matter what extraneous concessions are Gonsider, for example the skirt which seems to have all its fulness collected in the front, and to. be positively voluminous. Possibly 80, probably not. The close server will detect the fact that the fulness does not belong to the skirt at all, but is merely a continuation of the fulness of the bodice, which is drawn into a great bow tied squarely in the middle of the front, with floating ends which almost reach the hem. Another interesting, not to say exciting, treatment of the si to to use an an arrow-shaped sort of fine tucks inthe front and
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