Looking at clothes is a popular occupation with most women in Paris this month. Dressmakers are insisting on social openings with an estre in attendance, and appropriate strains of music greet the appearance of each new dress. A cosmopolitan and democratio audience is collected on each occasion. With a full purse and good bank balance a woman may hope to buy but not without them.
These new clothes are wonderfully designed and executed. They have not greatly changed in line from the clothes of summer, but with wonderful new materials and new turns in draperies they look quite different. An extra inch there and one less somewhere else, and the whole thing is different. Women who must, or think they must, be in the fashion, no matter what happens, realize the subtlety of these matters, and their cost.
It is clear that the long, straight, but not exaggerated waist line is te endure yet another season, and the skirt which depends from will vary in length according to its character. For walking it will be short, but for dancing or just wearing in the house may be longer or quite long. These are the only definite things which can be said about skirts, since they have a thousand caprices in the way of tucks, flounces, tunics, draperies, pockets (so many kinds of pockets), and panels. It is these variations which make or mar a dress, and the choice must be made by the individual, who should Lo guided in her choice by her own figure.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.