Jani fabrics as they are shown in You cannot see the new dioses! the shops this spring without feeling that colours are softer, lovelier land more becoming than they hav been for many years and this is all part of the return to favour of the distinctly feminine Jelement in dress. We no longer hold jup before us any arbitrary ideal of smartness or chic that stands apart {from thoughts of charm, and beauty.
One hears murmurs of discontent, with the new clothes—a little less hhere And a little more there than is usually the case, From the older women there is the wail that all the New dresses and hats and wraps seem to be designed exclusively for the Young, and from the too stout the Protest that these new dresses with their closely defined—lines through the body are even less favourable to them than the straight-Tine CLothes that have gone before.
The woman who feels that her type demands clothes that are ultra smart Iaments the fact that the new dresses and hats are all of the pretty-pretty, picturesque sort, Wo-met Who like to buy their clothes in a hurry qnd wear them without waiting for alteration or adjustment Jar OUt of patience because these new things demand attention to such tedious' preparations.
But after all these objections and complaints are no more numerous, Ino More significant than those that falvays arise when a real _fashion fehange occurs and most wofffen are at heart glad that the break with the Past has definitely been made,
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