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Show ItfllCS HIKES ' Oil HATfSIGNS United States Milliners No Longer Follow Paris, Miss Davis Says. "American bat manufacturers are now defining their own patterns," said Miss Uelle Davis, head of the millinery mil-linery department of the Z. C. M- I-. who baa just returned from an eastern buying trip. "The tastes of American women have changed. They no longer follow the . extreme fashions of Paris. The Parisians aro nt present wearing high hats and extremely short skirts, but in AmerV-a high hats are not in vogue au.l tho women have discarded short skirts." Miss Davis attributed this change to the war and expressed the opinion that it would provo for tine better. American Ameri-can women, she declare!, have a better eeuso of quality than the Europeans, and the styles, though simpler, are more substantial, and, on tho whole, more beautiful. Scarcity of labor and material was given by Miss Davis as the cause of tho prevailing high prices. "The manufacturers manu-facturers simply can not supply the demand," de-mand," she said, "and I do not look for lower prices for at least two years. |