of. View Fashions like events cast their} shadows before them and the fashions for the winter of 1922 are casting most interesting © sil-lionettes which indicate for the coming season a development of the lines of the season past and at the same time show departures from the fashions we have known.
The silhouette remains pretty much the same, straight of line, Mrs. Siwney Baron, Wire or H.B.M. failing almost directly from the shoulder to the hem of the costume with merely an indication of the belt line. In spite of this similarity of silhouette there are several outstanding points of definite fashion interest about the new garments for the fall and winter.
The placing of the belt line and; the length of the skirt are the two most striking differences. In_ the} first place there is nothing literal about the present fashionable waist. line for it is not placed by the up-to-date designer in the same anatomical position we once, judged the place fore ig We still refer to it as the "waist line?! rather because it is a substitute of what we once know as such. The real waist line is like the ear, it has not been shown for an age.
Tu this one feature the winter! dresses go to both extremes "and while some of the designers accontuate the long waist line and the low girdle by making then lower, others seek variety anda new note' by raising the girdle to an enipire Kne and place it high under bust.
In either case the girdle is pretty apt to be finished at the front or side front with a handsome and interesting ornament. Sometimes is ornament is lengthened by tong tassels of beads or fringes of the same colour and again it is accentuated by folds of the mater-ie] falling in full draperies from it entirely to encircle the figure.
All skirts are draped, either en-rely or in jfart. Some drape all their fullness to the side after wrap-ring themselves snugly about the inps, others fall straight the entire length of the skirt and depend upon the overskirt for draper:
In. general the heini is even with the exception of a side point er dip. This often reaches to the floor and on some evening gowns is elongated to form a train. Skirts are longer than they have been. In fact they ars as long as the designers dare make them and still hope to have them worn.
They are also full. The fullness however is artfully concealed and so arranged that the skirt falls as straight as did the tubular ones of another year, Promises or Hiavy Brack fxsson.
While some colours are shown, it promises to be a heavy black season and black combined with white will be very popular for early fall, A new dress that, has recently come over from Paris is made of the black and white satin success ingly combined and embroidered with pearl beads and gold thread. Black is always good for the informal dinner dress and no wardrobe' is complete without one on its list of dresses. One of a new crepy material known as '"Trigoddette" is shown with a round neck following the broad shoulder lines and the stright blouse falling from a fitted.: oke to a beautifully draped skirt. "he skirt is caught at the left side front with three long black silk tassels that fall to the bottom of the dress, and at the other side appears the only contrasting note on the whole dress, a handsome buckle of brilliants from which hangs a long point that scarcely escapes the floor.
Another dinner dress that is very new in design is made of black lace and black chiffon. The front of the dress is of the chiffon accordial pleated which falls straight from the neck to the bottom of the gown. The back and sleeves of the blouse are cut in one and catch low under a fuchsia gridle of chiffon studded with steel nail heads: From this girdle falls a full circular skirt of the lace, the points of which come to the front and catch to the girdle. The sleeves. grow wider as preach the wrist and are banded with the fuchsia chiffon again studded with rows of the steel nailheads.
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