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Show I GOODJTYLE Permit the husband-person to select your chapeau and ho will pay for it cheerfully. But there is a possibility that you will noi be able to wear it that way. That mode which Is sensational is never good style. Good style is, correctly speaking, an expression of good brooding, it is the at tiro that a lady should wear. Any fashion frippery that attracts the at-toniion at-toniion of the multitude as it skips effusively down tho boulevard Is strict ly bad stylo. It simply isn't anything any-thing but a sartorial freak. There is now the barrel skirt and it is placed under the dissecting knifo of the gab surgeons. Is it or is it not a freak stylo? In Its normal form and ! proportions it is not wild or skittish, but a perfectly tame little affair of , which no woman need be afraid There is usually a narrow width skirt at the bottom, out of which folds nnd billows of material emergo, scooting out into saddle pockets on either side I What tho extremists will do with tho mode remains to be seen. It can easily eas-ily be developed into something that looks like a Saloon out of which two ankles and a pair of feet hang dangling. dang-ling. One result of the barrolifiod skirt is the return of taffeta into the fabric raeo. Soft materials such as char- t mouse and meteor simply won't do a1 all: tho stuff must have stiffness nnd buoyancy, else tho. skirt sags and has no more character than nn old flour bag. And who in the world wants a toga like that? The skirt question is not settled, nor will it bo until the spring season ts well established. Paquin Lanvin and a number of other centuries are exploiting variations of the barrel skirt, but the Callot sisters are making mak-ing the majority of their skirts seven inches from the floor and narrow in width. Cheruit is composing long skirts, looped at the hips, to give a chic silhouette. It is difficult for women to under-stand under-stand that definite styles are no lone-er lone-er the rule. There is the matter of sleeves, for instance. All lengths are in the wrist, the elbows and the short length. So it is with skirts. Some arc of fair width, others are like the old style sheath. lVluch depends de-pends upon the figure of the woman j who is to wear it; much also depends upon the material There is also the jacket to be considered. The. present arrangement is vastly more satisfactory than the old-time rules, which were not to be broken, under penalty of sentence to social oblivion. One of the surprises of the season is the beautiful cotton materials that are being shown. The day of the simple muslin may have returned to us. At any rate, it will be a great season for dotted swiss, solid colored organdy, voiles, crepes, marquisettes and all wash fabrics. Lingerie frocks made of bright colored col-ored plaid cotton goods are among the smartest models of the Cheruit collection collec-tion Negligees composed of Hawaiian fabrics are worth notice and consid oration. |