Show CHEERY FAVORITE IN NEW SKIRTS ien 5 1 A I 1 e A FEW cheerful of spring precede its tull full in the display of blouses and separate skirts that make their initial appearance in january they are the straws that tell the direction of the winds of fashion and likely to be the very best efforts of designers working with new fabrics just now the shops are staging the new styles in skirts and blouses and almeady some of them have made a fine success A favorite in separate skirts has been chosen for or illustration here made of a fabric that has been developed in a variety of ways and designers show themselves ingenious to in the use of these striped goods in this particular wool fabric there are re stripes of black and white shepherds berds check alternating with plain black stripes but there are se several eral howing combinations in different colors s shiow the checked stripe alternating with stripes that are barred with alternating terna ting colors also in tile the skirt pictured the material Is arranged in box plaits with the checked strips stripe folded uppermost ond and the plain pain strips under so that the plain stripe does not s show I 1 low e except when bell the plaits spread apart this arrangement Is reversed in other skirts of the same or similar material especially where the alternating stripe Is not plain but none of the models out raak the one pictured for trim neatness and crispness or for all round usefulness it follows the trend of new artle in its narrow belt fastened with bone buttons at the front and the same buttons are set get in prim rows on each side the well tailored separate skirt Is fully established in the regard of women as a tailored suits are and almost as indispensable providing a very welcome elcome change it in the saoe character of clothes the skirt pictured in light weight wool is a pring garment that will be useful all summer I 1 |