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Show MIR CLOTHES , PREDICTED By Paul Poiret. Spatted and hatted, trouser-sklrted and poefcoted. the well-dressed -woman of Spring. 1914, may enjoy all tho fre-dom fre-dom of men's clothes, and yet appear wholly feminine Waistcoats, suspenders, trouser-helts, trouser-helts, military buttons, linen collars and more pockets than a woman ever expected pockets that she can even use without danger of spoiling her silhouette. sil-houette. Somebody asks, "Are they really trousers?" No, but they are the nearest near-est approach to them ever designed for feminine wear. And besides being be-ing practical for the golf links, the polo field, the race course, anJ other athletic centers, these mannish, clothes clo-thes are femininely charming. The first indication of these masculine mascu-line costumes was given in a garment made by Paul Poiret in January. It was a skirt that looked a Uttle UiB modified trousers with coat, pockets and waistcoat plainly suggested by man's clothes. Now the Paris fashions fash-ions for spring and summer designed not only by Paul Poiret, by Jeanne Lanvin, and others, go still further along these lines. Tailored suits inspired in-spired by man's dress this is the latest message of Paris to the world of fashion. Paul Poiret, In the interview given below descrihes these new tendencies in dress to the wind of emancipation now blowing over woman Read his prediction for 1024. WOMEN'S DRESS IN 1924, PAUL POIRET'S PREDICTION. (From a London Newspaper of Recent Date.) "If you ask me what Is the transcendent trans-cendent Influence to-day," said Paul Poiret, "I reply that, in my opinion, It Is the wind of emancipation pass ing over woman, driving her alwaye toward more masculine forms. It Is my impression that the tendency will be more and more in the direction of what is plain and severe, arid that clothes will be more and more rational, ration-al, with a view to the practical. In a word, women's dress will become more man-like and independent." The Future. M. Poiret paused a moment, and then, at one bound, leaped a decade into the future. "I have just finished two designs of dresses which will. I foresee, be the fashion some ten years hence. This day I shall have them duly certified by a man of law who will put them under seal until the day, ten years hence, when I will resume possession and open the packet, like a man turning turn-ing up the final card of Patieuce to see whether he is right or wrong." M. Poiret then showed me the fateful fate-ful designs of what our sisters and cousins and aunts will look like In 1924. I admit I started involuntarily, but when the first shock was over I composed my mind to describe what was before me. Masculine Modes, The first woman wore her hair plastered back over her head. in the manner affected sometimes by young people nowadays. The collar was of soft linen, - turned down something like an Etonian over an unmistakable man's tailor-made jacket The skirt separates sharply from the knee into loose trousers, which allow al-low an entirely free gait. But woman is not entirely eliminated, for her hand can still be traced in such details as the tie, which is more artistically knotted than a man's. Trousers! The second woman was similar, with the exception that her jacket showed a more fanciful cut. The arm-holes arm-holes are scooped out and the shoulder should-er strap is narrow, like a brace, the object being to allow' the arm perfect freedom of movement. The gloves are out-and-out masculine, like present day motor-driving gloves, with gaunt-lets gaunt-lets over the wrist. Beneath the jacket you see the flaps of a waistcoat, lone-pointed edges as now. The trousers, reminiscent of the almost forgotten skirt, are gath-ered gath-ered in front In order to mask th6 figure. "I will not predict fashions," concluded con-cluded M. Poiret, "for I disown fash-ion, fash-ion, I am a believer only in the 'influences, 'in-fluences, ,and if we continue to undergo under-go the Influences now In force I believe be-lieve that we shall be irresistibly carried' car-ried' towards masculine forms." |