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Show HINT AT POLONAISE EFFEC1 New Gowns Show Signs of Revival of Old Fashion That May Again Become Popular. A few of the new gowns go back to the remote epoch of the polonaise. The coats of the last season, with their deep round pointed backs and long curved fronts, have paved the way so that the transition to the polonaise pol-onaise does not seem surprising. Whether or not it will be more than a tentative experiment remains to be seen. But at any rate the experiment is being made. The saying, "Other times, other manners," is nowhere more sure of its application than in the realms of fashions. So it is quite to be expect-. ed that these Twentieth Century offerings of-ferings in the polonaise should have their own distinguishing features. In one case where the polonaise Is of deep pink panne velvet worn , over a white charmeuse slip it is extended in the back to form a pointed train. A girdle of silver gauze crosses outside the velvet in the back, but is drawn through openings several inches from the front edges of the polonaise and then continued in soft folds across the bust, forming the front of the corsage. cor-sage. This polonaise and that of fifty years ago are decidedly not the same thing, but their common origin is unmistakable. |