And short-legged women can obtain a semblance of limb length with long skirts and waist lines which may be placed as one wishes. Fashion's bugaboo, the fat lady, is certainly less appalling in a costume which constrains her opulence then in the loose drapes which used to magnify it. C oats will be fitted, either bloused or caped, and as long as the dresses beneath them. Only in sporting coats will the three-quarter length be tolerated. As every women knows, a blouse tucked inside a skirt is apt to be bunchy underneath the skirt top.
Some smoothing influence is needed between blouse and skirt.
This there is a bold faction among the stylists which advocates the return of the petticoat. C loths are often indicative of states of mind. Many speculative persons believe that a return to dignity and formalism in attire presages an accompanying return to statelier morals and manners. But anyone who has watched the modern women adapt to a long skirt to modern convenience finds it easy to predict that she will do likewise with her behavior. Another page maintained by Sheiglagh the AI Program.