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Show PARIS DECLARES HAREM SHIRT DEAD PARI8. May ST. Tha much-press-agented. much-talked -about harem skirt is dead. Parla, which originated the Idea of borrowing fronts tha Orient for women' wom-en' I'll atyle. haa aoosptad th Inevitable, Inevita-ble, end when Paris, unquestionably the arbiter of tha world's fsshlons. spurns its own Idea it la safe to say that the divided garment will ba seen no more. The last straw cam. howvr. from London. wha Quean Mary dlaapproved of th eklrt. Ordinarily. disapproval from thla eourc would not carry ao much weight with the rest of the world, but there Is no denying that the coronation haa gtran Britain a vole In fashions thla rear. Queen Mary put the baa on tha t roues rou-es rs skirt at festivities Incidental to the coronation and Incidentally took occasion to sdmlnlstsr a biting snub to Mrs. John Jacob Astor. who is nothing if not ultra-fashionable. The enub followed Mr. Aatora appearance ap-pearance at a London function recently In a very diaphanous skirt of the latest harem pattern. The skirt attracted much attention. It Is aupposedlv because of th extremity ex-tremity to which Mr. Astor follows fashion that when the American, beauty, swathed In one of th tightest of th ultra-faahlonabl gowns, waa driving through Hyde park recently that the queen, passing In her oarrlaga. failed to rcoan1a Mrs. Astor's bow. Moreover, th queen doss not like Americana. |