A nefarious scheme with worldwide ramifications involving many prominent leaders*of the younger social set has been unearthed through the efforts of loyal adherents to the cause of Established Fashions. Noting a deplorable tendency to revolt against standards alleged to be "arbitrarily" imposed by Paris, the recognized seat of fashionable government, its agents are taking drastic means to suppress the insurrection.
Heads of the exclusive style shops of Paris, London and New York have employed the secret intelligence department of the Empire of Fashioi ferret out the outrageous activities of these Bolshevist in dressing and have uncovered a thoroughly dangerous state of affairs. As has been noticed by our observant readers, we, in. common with all leading authorities, have long predicted lengthier skirts. We have been predicting this long enough so that every short skirt should long -ere this have run to cover. Instead of this they persist, rot only on the field of sports, where we have permitted them to survive, but on the street, in the home, on the dance-floor. Such flagrant disregard of style dicta has rarely been exhibited and it almost suggcets the idea that women are going to do as they please.
In Union Srreneta, Nor Lexera?
A detective force employed by those prominent modistes whose veign was threatened has discover: ed an organization in restraint of long skirts, whose membership is widespread, especially among the flaper class. The jeune fille of to-day, being an extremely knowing' young person, does not take such crude measures as to oppose her own individual preferences to the storm of opposition. Indeed, she does lip service to the current and decorates the coat han pere of mode, buys a few long dressos—
her wardrobe with them while she -continues to wear skirts which scarcely conceal the charms of her dimpled—ankles.
The more timid of the species carry golf clubs about with them on shopping trips or tiffin parties, thus implying that the abbreviation of their petticoats is demand-od by athletic requirements. Others have a dancing frock cut as brief as ever and then. camouflage their shortcomings with an overskirt of
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