Paris, Nov. 23.
Mark up one for short skirts They have, in the opinion of the Marquise de Polignac improved the race, It is time that something favourable be said about knee exposing dresses, for they appear to be definitely on their way out with their praises unsung. Although several months ago smart Parisians hesitated to adopt longer dresses, they are now—storming their dressmakers places with insistent orders for the modish leg-coverings dictated by the style masters, 'A fow more weeks and men will have to go to the Folies Bergere if they want to see the contours of feminine calves. The effect is al ready noticeable along the Boule-yards, for there has been an appreciable dropping of the hem.
There may be a compromise, for the dresses may be allowed' to, lengthen, but the under-skirt kept Jat Knee length with the result that the lower half of the robe will be transparent. That would allow a transitory period. for women to got lised to the radically changed style "One can say that short dresses contributed materially ta the bet-ferment of the race," Marquise de Polignae told me.
"As long as limbs were hidden under yards of dress-cloth, women paid very little attention to their anatomies. With short dresses came a new consciousness of physical beauty and women learned that beauty of line came from jeareful self-care and not from bits of lace or' ribbons. well-groomed limbs, they improved their anatomical lines. Baths and exercises reduced forms which had long gone out of good proportions. The exercises did more than produce }well-groomed limbs, they improved the general health of women, and the effect will be seen in the next generation—United Press.
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