Show DECOLLETE DRESS A Philadelphia Society for the Pre edition of Low Neck mid Short Sleeves A Philadelphia correspondent writes as I follows to the Chicago Times There I has been formed a society here called The Society for the extirpation of the DccdXene Dress Some of the most I beautiful and fashionable women of town members of it The proximate cause of its coming into being was the bringing of a suit for damages by a young woman whose nerves were shocked by her eJection ejec-tion from a dancinghall at a large masquerade mas-querade ball for the alleged reason that her dress was cut too low The young woman declared that bile her gown was made according ac-cording to the mode it was not cut lower than those worn at fashionable assemblies assem-blies It js not surprising that the cheeks of Philadelphias fair and highbred daughters should burn when they saw this irreverent fling staring them in the eyes from the newspapers The ladies fashion promptly made up their minds iat each member of the society would tpee to wear dresses that would come t2 It 6 up to the chin and encourage other enable women to do likewise The i5r second thought however resulted a some important modification It was agreed that a triangular or heartshaped cut t in front would be sufficiently modest if not made too long and might be allowed it was held also that if 1 a lady had a splendid diamond or pearl necklace that she desired de-sired to wear her corsage might be cut square if well filled in with lace A long discussion arose on the question of allowing allow-ing simple shoulderstraps if the arms l ere enveloped in twentybutton kid gloves The discussion which waxed vehement and almost personal ended in the defeat f of the shoulderstrap advocates by a vote of twelve to nine and it was resolved that sleeves should never stop snort of the elbow Two of the shoulder strap ladies immediately withdrew from the society |