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Show NEW BELTS FASTEN AT SIDE Decoration Sold In Paris Shops Is Narrow; One Made by the Dressmaker Is Wide. Both red and orange are Introduced In the separate tunics that Paris Is showing, but Jenny uses splashing brocades, such as wTere worn by the men of old Persia. When the tunic is not too long, It is fastened to the skirt at the hip, and pulled in to the smallest dimensions possible by a girdle. The public may think that these girdles are after the manner of those sold In our shops, also in the famous Galerles Lafayette over In Paris which is packed with Americans spending their surplus money. But If the public thinks after that fashion, It Is wrong. The belts sold In the shops are narrow, and the ones used by the dressmakers are wide. They fasten at the side, by the way, and have pendants pen-dants of metal or beads In some cases The sash which ties at the side Is utterly ut-terly out of fashion. Girdles. Girdles of all sorts may be had to add to afternoon and evening gowna Some of them are made of segments of metal and others of some composition composi-tion like celluloid held together with metal rings. Some are of jade and silver. Some are of strands of beads Some are of jet. There are all klnda and for the most part they are very good looking nnd well worth having as a finishing detail of a new frock. The Use of Fringe. Even separate skirts are not exempt from fringe, pongee and sport silk ones having pointed or straight bands of It In self -col or. |