"There is one thing certain about the new fashions," we read "and that is that neatness is going to be "de rigueur" this winter.
"Some kind of trim waistline will be seen, for when the straight dress is still worn it is no longer shapeless and floppy, but banded tightly round the hips. There are no eccentricities, no outrageous shortness of skirts, no floppy, uneven hemllness. The heads of some of the big French houses have set their j faces against the floating scraps of chiffon, the unevenly hanging panels and scarves, and the general "bunchiness" of appearance which marked last season's models. And that means that England will prelsently follow where Paris leads.
"The fashion was never, in the opinion of the writer, a pretty one, and always looked untidy. When a skirt is full it will be frankly full; where it hangs straightly it will nearly touch the ground, and its draperies will fall into a definite train, or even into a double train."
Well, this may all be. The winter is still young, but I venture the assertion that trimness will not be the prevailing feature of the gowns seen at social functions for some few weeks to come, since far too many autumn and early winter frocks have been made up along the loose and careless lines. Skirts, to be sure, have been struggling back to normalcy, but the most popular mode of the moment is the skirt draped at one side and the effect has been too good to be light-discarded. Moreover, what. about the overskirt, which has _almost invariably been longer than the foundation skirt and practically never extends the full way round. And as for hanging panels, their name is still legion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.