During the winter months at least, many women are agreed that Mrs. Henderson's ideas on dress-lengthening, at any rate, are good The American women, particularly in New York, Chicago, Washington and other large cities, have flung their defiance of winter cold in the face of Old Man Winter himself by appearing ey masse in a costume that, for the most part, is a uniform. The upper part of the body' is clothed ther in a voluminous fur coat or a cloth coat, with enormous fur collar and cuffs, and'with a vertical band of fur running from the collar down the front of the coat, and then circling the hem. The coat stops fat the knees or just above. Below is nothing except the, it-must-itted, good-looking' legs of the average American woman, sheathed in the thinnest of chiffon silk stockings in shades ranging from the palest flesh to the deepest rose, with all the colour gradations of beige, tan and copper in between. On the feet are blonde or black satin pumps, either plain or ornamented with enormous buckles of cut steel or some other striking composition, or with bows or straps. At the of! extreme, atop the latest in coiffeurs known as the "barbaric bob" sits a wee hat. The hat rides on the back of the head, superbly indifferent to strong winds and stronger comments from the hat-on-the-side faction. The forehead is exposed and 30, frequently are the ears. Another group wears a little hat over one car with hair fluffed out all over the head where the hat doesn't touch at all, Still another group wears its hats, French fashion, pulled on straight, and far, far down over the eyebrows.
In zero weather, such as New York experienced through the holidays, a lovely young thing dressed in three-quarter furs, so to speak, with biting winds whipping at. almost bare legs, presented a ludierous picture from which conserva. cringe. tives like Mrs. Henderson might well
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