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Show I, Coats and Skirts. Several of tho famous houses In Paris nro exploiting tnllored coats that ore only four Inches shorter than tho skirt. This Is exceedingly now, nnd may bring n revolution In tnllored costumes cos-tumes In this country In the spring. Truo, the coats need not hi) voiy long In Paris oven If they are as long as tho skirts, for never In the history of modern civilization hnvo women worn such short skirts as the best French women are doing today. Kven n ceremonial cere-monial gown Is cut oft live Inches be low tho knees In front. Street skirts merely sweep tho top of the highest laced boot; but tho Pnrlslenno nearly nlwnys leaves off tho boot and wears a pump. It looks ns though France has determined to show tho legs, oven If tho government has Insisted upon Its not showing the shoulders. It Is a queer und topsy-turvy world I |