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Show s;.Ity sa much in doubt about the ihort 6 kirt. Th uncertainty rf: 5: 'toting 'tot-ing the abbreviated garment caused many of the buyers to hop that Paris w.juH rel'.'nt and call thy gkirt length ten inches from the ground. Ten inches from the ground! Never! j sixteen inches at least! Sixteen inches for a moderate figure, but knee length preferred oh. much ref erred. The Herald correspondent wired what she saw and heard at the Maison Jenny. We taka it that Airs. Jenny in borne pumpkins in the world of fashions, fash-ions, and that whatever she pays approaches ap-proaches the final word in what's what and what's to be. Mrs. Jenny decrees that the skirt length shall be sixteen inches from the ground, no less. This she regards as a concession, stoutly maintaining that a skirt that comes below the knee is well, it isn't quite, y 'know. Having issued her edict upon the skirt, Mrs. Jenny turns her attention to the upper parts of the body. "She favors,'' says the correspondent, "the back that nature gave us, and in regard re-gard to the front well, she merely puts her stamp on a piece of net." After a more or less exhaustive comment com-ment on the colors, trimmings and such like, the correspondent informs us that "the American buyers left the show rooms rather more open to conviction on the subject of short skirts." On the whole, the cablegram says "tho first Jenny peace display was a great success.' Later advices from Paris are to the effect fhat a compromise has been reached. American skirts will bo short, but not up to the knees. PARIS FASHIONS. American buyers in Paris -are reported re-ported to have taken a remarkably favorable fav-orable view of the new peace fashions displayed there for the first time. Judging Judg-ing from a description of what they saw, we venture the forecast that, however how-ever favorable the buyers' views may have been, they will in no wise compare com-pare with the views afforded tho mas-j mas-j euline population, of America if those 1 fashions are to be introduced here; and I since there were 300 American buyers 'present, there is every reason to be-i be-i lieve that those fashions are coming hither, and that right soon. So far as we are able to judge from reading an account of the Paris display dis-play contained in a copyrighted cubic dispatch to the Xew York Herald, we should say that the peace model consists con-sists of a belt. Possibly also there may be a smile or a frown, as the case may be, but we fail to discern evidence of much else in the costume with which the female form divine is to be adorned or, rather, -unadorned. First off, it may be said that the American buyers "went across the great, |