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Show FROM FASHIONDOM o New t and Snappy Ideas Depicted In the Coming Styles, BY MRS. KINGSLEY. HHE best dressmakers state emphatically em-phatically that exaggerated short skirts will not bo considered con-sidered correct w hen the nu-tumn nu-tumn models are intioduced. Just now our young and pretty klrls are pushing tho craze for short skirts to the utmost limit, but cen now these ultrn-iemarkable models are regarded regard-ed with suspicion by women of good taste. A little shorter than ankle length this is tho latest dictate For dressy gowns the Pansiau artists art-ists are designing quaint models in plain and stiiped taffetas, which recall the fashions of those brilliant days when tho Dmpicss Eugenic held court at tho Tuilerics Theso skirts aro lound, full, but not remarkably short. They aio about the length of the fascinating fas-cinating costumes which used to be worn by skirt dancers A model of this order which pleased me very much was made of raven's wing bluo and white striped tafletas mixed with plain silk of dark blue shade The round skirt was finely gathered at the waist, and the hem was in the striped material. Just above this hem, which was almost sixteen inches wide, there was a deep band of dark blue silk arranged ar-ranged in wido tuckb which ran around the figure Then there was a length of stfiped silk which reached to tho waist, The corsage was of tho cross-over order with -very short sleeves, and there was a blouse of ivory-w hlto organdie, which had a very high Directoiro collar caught In at the throat by a band of black velvet ribbon. rib-bon. Tho dress was finished by a wide, very soft sash made of japonlca pink crepe do chine; tho ends of this sash were empbroidered In dark bluo fioss silks. Buttons aro in great demand. Largo shipments from foreign button makers mak-ers havo not been received In this country becauso of tho war, and Amor-lean Amor-lean button manufacturers havo stepped into the emorgoncy and raado domestic buttons to suit tho mont fastidious fas-tidious taate. Drossmakors uso them for trimming In a thousand different , woyB. Thcro aro Bclf-covored buttons on buUb and coats. Thoro aro Jot and Btool and onamol buttonB, Thoro aro fancy ellk and velvet buttons and many , other klndB. Tho Parifl hata of today aro almost : oxajjgoratoly nlmplo Jn dotall. Many i of tho newost and bont hata and : toques are practically untrlmmed lhe hats decked out with flowerj or ribbons can always be arranged at home at small expense. Blach silk beaver like that on a man's tall hat is very much used by one or two leading milliners in Pans. It is successfully combined with white faille and also with Belgian blue satin straw. A novel and expensive toque which was designed In a famous atelier was made of fine satin suaw in the Belgian blue shade and the top ; of the domed crown was covered with ' black silk beaver. There was a wide band of black watered ribbon round ' this crown and at the left side, rather low down, a cluster of mixed flowers, ' heliotrope, blue hyacinths, -Banksia ! roses and maidenhair fern. It was a ' lovely little affair, quite poetic In its soft, yet rich coloring. Very gradually the waist line is rising, ris-ing, and we may hope that beiore long ' it will go just high enough to be near- 1 ly Directoiro, and that theu we rhall ' hao the stiaight-falling skirt as it is ( seen in classic statues Nothing suits J woman's flguie quite so well a3 these ' slightly full, clinging draperies, and l for all the puffB and flounces which j are shown us in the new models tho ' dress-makers are nearly always will- ing to modify them until they become simple and modest, not vanity stiick- en and garrulous. Nay blue is tho ' ptedominating color, but light crepons aro rapidly coming into favor now f that the sunshine Is making cloth a burden In the heart of tho day. Very delicate blues, a pink that is merely a c faint blush on a maiden's cheok, a yellow which can bo worn with a good t deal of white, and a biscuit color w hlch e is almost cream, are being offered to u us most temptingly. B Tho only blzarro noto of the day In n fashion comes with the shoes. Ihoy j are lamentable aa wo seo them in the avenueB and stroets Tho hcelB aro bo high that tho figure of the women who wear them 1b positively rldlcu-lous rldlcu-lous and tho colored clothes which aro ueod to mako them aro ao striking UB complotoly to extinguish the impor- .. tonco of any other part of the cob-tumc. cob-tumc. Greon, violet, bright yollow, bluo, anything vivid, scorns to havo callod on tho imagination of tho boot-makora boot-makora and tholr "cllontoB." Fortu- ai natoly tho boat bootmokorB look ask- a moo at such fantastio things, and they p; mako- all things In moderation, b |