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Show CURTAILING WEARING APPAREL. The wires say at the rncps in Paris on Monday Mon-day the ladies did not wear a very large amount of clothing. That might be pardonable if the weather there was as warm as it is here. But the regular news from Paris a week ago said that stockings by the wholesale were being abandoned by bathers in Paris, "as it is recog-niied recog-niied even among the most straightlaced women that it is no more indecorous to show the lower limbs than to show the arms and shoulders at a ball." And further than that, it is added that "there is nothing especially striking in the actual bathing dress yet, but it is understood that the dressmakers have designed several startling surprises which certain society leaders will introduce when the holiday season is in full swing." Still another correspondent declares his belief be-lief that "the fashions in women's dress this summer are the most audacious since the years of the directoire." The account further says that "women appear in the streets and parks and at the race tracks in low cut bodices with short sleeves and scant and diaphanous skirts." It seems that about once every hundred years France has to run wild on something, and this year the evidence appears to be in the wearing apparel of the ladies. Whether it is to be a certain fancy to pass away quickly, or the regular reg-ular thing, we will have to wait and see. As France does most of her business with an eye to profit, it is not impossible that she is fixing her ladies' apparel to retain our American tourists in Paris longer than usual this year. Our tourist trade is one of the features that Paris relies upon for annual profits, and someone some-one over there must know some little about American taste. |