Show Fashionable Skills Skirts of the coming season remain close fitting about the top but spread into greater amplitude at the bottom Happily Hap-pily the threatened hoopskirt has not arrived ar-rived and the fullness is left to fall with a certain grace into easy natural folds Even the umbrella skirtthe title is a I trifle misleadingis by no means an open umbrella but an umbrella threequarters closed and is a very becoming skirt particularly par-ticularly when made of stuffs which are aupole without being limp As regards their lengtn skirts are of three kinds the short skirt the long skirt without a train and the regular trained skirt The short umbrella skirt is cut a sloped front breadth two side I breadths sloped equally at both edges and either two back breadths joined by their selvages and sloped at the outer edge or three sloped equally at both edges the middle of the second one forming the straight back of the skirt Naturally with a skirt of this kind containing so much material the bulky trimmings used at the edge of sheath skirts a few months ago would bo quite incompatible Hence we see skirts of rich figure or striped broche silks without any trimming whatever what-ever while those of less weighty mater terials have a narrow ruche a draped bias band of silk or velvet a moss of feather trimming or metallic galloon All these trimmings occupy one row and only in exceptional cases are they repeated to make a border of any depth at the bottom of the skirt Paris Correspondent in Harpers Bazar |