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Show ists. And she declares that only those who have plenty of money, and no work to do can afford extreme styles. They do not pay as they go out of fashion too soon. Women who bought extremely short skirts had end of grief remodeling them when the longer long-er ones became the style. The women wo-men who buy long, tight ones now, have their troubles ahead of them. Most of us can be extremists only at the sacrifice of our pocketbook and natural possibilities. SHORT SICIKTS II ERE TO STAY SAYS CLOTHING EXPERT "I believe that American women will never aejain wear really long skills," declared Miss Johanna Moen, professor of textiles and clothing at the Utah Agricultural College. "At least, l.liey never will until they leave business work and sport:'., and I do not believe that day will ever come. Wnitn n can't a I" t' j r 1 nowadays to let. their clothes hamper them, and long, dragging skirls are surely hindering, unbecoming and unsanitary for general gen-eral wear. In spile of all fire elVoits of Paris, the vast ma.joiily of American Am-erican women, anil especially those of lire West, have absolutely refused to adopt, tliein. Women at last are really refusing to follow fashion blindly." But she rejoices that skirts have been lengthened from the just-below- the-knee length. Only a few women can wear them that way and look their best. Today, tire fashionable1 woman wear's her street, business, and sport, clothes anywhere from seven sev-en to twelve inches from the ground, depending on her height and figure, j Of course, formal evening and after-, noon dresses are longer, and are decidedly de-cidedly graceful in their place. She advises any woman planning a new costume, to have it just, the length I hat. is most becoming to her. There is no doubt but that if will be in slyle if sire does. In fact, the very best, -dressed women always follow that rule, regardless of the extrcm- |
