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Show COPIED FROM OTHER DAYS Present Styles Are a Mixture of the Best of the Known Fashions of the Past. The long-ago days and the styles worn then huve been the Inspiration of in. Hiv of the fashions of today. Modern dress recalls the Moyen age long waistline, the Victorian shoulders and the picturesque hut of Louis XVI. The pokebonnet, once more the style, recalls days gone by, while the apron, now put Into the prncticul use in many of the modern dresses, reminds re-minds one thnt hack ln the days of Mary Stuart the apron fonmsj u purt of the dress. Then, however, it was ornamented and of line fubrlc ruther than useful, us at present. The quaint fur shoulder wrnps now so prevalent look much like the shoulder shoul-der capes of 1840 und full off the shoulders ln much the snme wuy. Likewise Japanese and Chinese Influences Influ-ences ure very nnticcuble In many of the modern styles. Our styles taken as a whole nre a most pleasing comblr.itlon of the best of the styles of the past und the most interesting of the modern tendencies. |