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Show 'DRESSY PARIS MODEL COMPREHENSIVE 8KETCH OF A POPULAR DESIGN. Fashion's Demand for Full Skirts Satisfied, Sat-isfied, With Arrangement That la Highly Artistic In Shaped and Plaited Basques. Tho Bkotch Bhows a Beer model which comes under tho heading "drcBsy." This Is a vory now nnd original design and hero you seo tho slightly raised waist line Nearly all tho Beer models of this season aro Immensely wldo at tho hem ot tho skirt, and tho dross I havo nHHMMaB" "' M" H- VM n MH.MMB Tho Latest Costume Tnllleur In Navy Blue Serge With Embroidery In Oxidized Oxi-dized Steel Thread. sketched wob no exception to this rulo, writes Idalla do Vllllors, Paris corro-Bpondont corro-Bpondont ot tho Boston Olobo. At tho extremo horn tho sorgo skirt moasurod from seven to eight yards, but tho material was so beautifully soft and supplo that It fell In grace- t ful folds and did not look unduly "bunchy." Tho coateo which accompanied title coBtumo had ono of tho new, vory full, basquos, nnd this basquo wiib attached to tho upper portion of tho coat under a band of lovoly oxidized stool embroidery. em-broidery. The samo embroidery formed a high collar which framed the faco and neck and thero wcro hands on tho sldo pockets which appeared on tho full skirt. Tho buttottB on tho coat were balls of cut steel and tho lining was a handsome brocaded satin which Bhowcd bright orange designs on a dull bluo ground. Shaped nnd plaited basques aro making mak-ing tholr nppearanco on very many ol tho now tailored coats, in somo cases two basques nro Introduced, ono slightly slight-ly shorter than tho other, and these aro effocttvo on tall figures. Of courso a basquo coat tloos not glvo tho long, graceful curvo which wna a marked feature of last season's models. Wo miss tho princess out-lino; out-lino; Indeed wo miss it so much that soino of our leading dressmakers seom Inclined to roturn to It for fa-vorlto fa-vorlto clients. It Is all very woll to follow tho fashions fash-ions to a rcasonablo extent, but when It comes to ncceptlng nn outline which takes away from tho graco of tho fig-uro fig-uro It Is tlmo to call "halt." It roally Is truo that tho moro ox-clusivo ox-clusivo Parlslennos novcr accept a stylo which Is not becoming to them individually. They demand, and obtain, ob-tain, modifications which will mako tho coat or dress thoroughly comfort-ablo comfort-ablo and becoming. It is only tho weak ones of tho earth who allow thcmsolvos to bo driven this way and that by sensational dressmakers whe caro llttlo about boauty but who aro always seeking to advertise thomBolvos. |