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Show Woman Is Going to Insist on Tucks and Frills UJJANIIION hasn't worn cotton since the war. Everything is silk." The f clerk said It to a mere everyday customer who had dared to mention petticoats. "Willi the information went n couple of shrugs that told each otner mat or course some women wouia continue to stick to cotton, with another an-other shrug to finish the inference with the proper, shading of scorn. Official information is a handy thing to own, but it has its drawbacks. It put worry lines between the eyes of the customer as she left the shop, wondering what is going to happen with skirties on the blink. But she might have saved herself the wear and tear of her emotions, for the first was a broom-handle sister who insisted upon wearing her tucks and frills to 'lie very beach of the Itiver of Styx. And after that, at comforting intervals, enme : A tremendously stout woman who didn't give a hang for straight fronts, hut wore her contour as unconcernedly as if she were the first edition de Milo, diked oft in spotty black lawn. A middle-aged woman with the sort of Roman chin that will insist upon hat It wants until kingdom come, and one of the things the woman apparently appar-ently wanted just then to the extent of possessing in all its glory was a white skirt showing lace inserts under blue flowered mull. There were others, but these will serve, so the customer's worry lines went out of business, and as woman must express herself or die she paused before a plaster lady in a store window a passe plaster lady, chipped a trille and clothed in a shopworn suit marked down. "Wax ladies may do as they blamed please, but you and I and the rest of us runs of the mill are going to stick to our coaties, even after the war, when knickers come in fashion." And anybody who supposes that plaster lady failed to smile response is dimply not acquainted with plaster ladies. |