| Show Springtime Styles Will Soon Appear In n Women's Shops Dealers eal r Now Offering Winter Goods at Low Prices to Make Make Room for New Stock By AMY ARMSTRONG i Everyone has doubtless exhausted both desire desire isire and money for forI I buying for awhile a and while we ve stop to get our breath after the holiday holiday holi holi- I day hurry and bustle we might glance for a minute at advance e in information information information in- in formation as to coming spring styles It It isn't long long after after the first of the y year ar you know until the shops are beginning bet beginning be be- t ginning to display the earliest of the spring Ji models d t. t 1 Especially will it be true this year for fori formost i most folks have grown rather tired or of the 4 much trimmed fur frown craze which has held us us k in in its grip through the winter and a change g will be welcome And too the f fur-edged fur w and bedecked head pieces are passe parse much Ir j f earlier in the spring than other models for f aB t tr just as s soon as the thermometer rises above i ft freezing n fur looks most awfully hot and un un- fiM i comfortable And at that some of our local shops have already started their showing of late winter and early spring hats Fashion moves rapidly from one one idea to the next and if you stop and look very long expecting to decide between two styles by the time you NOU have come com to your decision vou you will find that still a third and an entirely different one Is the moments moment's rage Coat Length Problem The ever present problem of ot coat length bids fair to trouble us seriously this thie spring 1 If advance information isto Is Isto isI I to be trusted One fashion expert comes along and tells us that skirts I and coats are to be short this spring spring- So short in fact that you cannot tell one from the other meaning I presume presume pre pre- sume that there will be no skirt at all else I can get no gleam of ot intelligence out of the remark Then other ex pert advice says coats are to be rather long Jong and in view of ot the last remark one remembers the proverb or is it a proverb 1 that every inch a woman takes lakes from the length of ot her coat tak takes s I Ia a year ear from her apparent age Whether the spring coat will when it personally and its advance agents have gone on their way be a compromise between n the short and thelong the thelong long or whether it will incline one way t or the other remains yet to be 1 seen Dictates of fashion say that everything everything everything every every- thing will bell out at tl tile the e bottom this season Your coat will be bell shape at the bottom your sleeves will follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low suit and your skirt still further emphasize the flare tIare However the flare Is not to be so voluminous as it has been through the winter There will be something of ot a saving raving In material In the illustration Is a costume of at white velvet an and beav beaver r stunning and smart for a rather tall woman The designer tells how the coat runs into greatly modified but graceful ripples t the e deep belt the Jong long narrow sleeves the oddly shaped pockets the sharply pointed tunic of the skirt are all graceful These are the fashion ideas you will see embodied in the blue serge serges the brown or the green broad- broad clothes that smartly gowned women will wear this spring Skirts Are Short It is interesting to know that dancing dancing dancing ing frocks as well as street costumes are short Dress dresses are following followIng following follow follow- ing the fashion of Qt abbreviation as well as the tha every day suits Many of ot the waists are short too close fitting as the frock in the picture shows But if you are in the mood for buying buyl buy buy- l ing truly as one man said the town Is pa on sale All of the shops are takIng taking tak tak- taking ing the years year's Inventory of ot goods and the they do donot not want to carry over over One store 18 is selling the most wonderful furs at one half and third one off Think of ihn saying This is the not not the cheaper line of ot goods either but muffs mutts and collars which run In price clear up to to- And speaking of ot muffs some some some- of ot those now being worn which were quite obviously Christmas presents are almost funny tunny They are finger muffs muUs with slits silts barely large larg enough to let letin letin letin in the fingers They ar are fashionable to 10 be sure but at that hat they ar are to quote the Englishman perfectly absurd absurd ab ab- surd But there is another decidedly new shape in the new evening muff mut which goes to another extreme but which is ever so ISO delightful to look upon It is a bag affair with tassel end which reaches nearly to the bottom of ot the evening coat It is shirred be-shirred and be- be pleated and comes In any number of variety as to details It is an an adjunct indeed to an evening costume The majority of ot these muffs come come with the evening wrap and are of ot the same material One being shown in a i local shop is of ot blue chiffon velvet trimmed in gold lace It is ravishing and strikes a pang of envy into the heart very woman who sees it Although the weather Just now has quite evidently nothing to do with the flowers that bloom in the tho spring tra la if madame or miss expects to be ready when the fade to step out of ot her winter shell of ot furs she must even now be planning and lookIng lookIng look- look looking Ing ahead |
