"No outrageous shortness of skirt," says the seer. True; but What of the outrageously long skirt? And why is a double train more "definite? than a panel? "No bunchiness," says the soothsayer, and then hints at the bustle.
"One must chronicle again the fact that a kind of suggestion of a bustle is seen on many models. Whether this fashion will penetrate from the dressmaker's salon into the private house remains to he seen. Many skirts are caught up into " full, bunchy drapery at the back, whence depends a small square train resting some inches on jthe ground. Often a very large bunch of looped material is placed to one side of the hip, and this is stiffened inside with muslin, while tht rest of the grown is tightly swathed to the figure."
"Elaboration and _—eccentricity have been banished from the realm of fashion," we road, also that "quiet taste nnd reticence,' likewise dignified gowns are to be the aim of the season. The prospect sounds so bleak that we are glad to note the writer's inconsistency in the promise of trimmed backs, removable sleeves and contrasting laces—of which more anon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.