The Washington times., 1901-10-13

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/ Are Varied Enough to Please the
Taste of AII-Irish Lace a Favorite
The Skirt Flare stiU in Use.
The notable dressmaking firms in Paris
that launched the fuller skirts last spring
are still producing them. but mostly in
the thin materials, and many of these
models are in tucks around the hips to
make the effect as trim as possible. The
shaped fiounce is with us still In all the
familiar forrns One imported model in
cloth is covered from waist to hem with
scant circular ruffies. Other skirt models
have one, two, or three circular hounces,
beginning at either side of front
breadth.
Many Of the skirts are trimmed down
the front narrowly with tucks, bands,
crosswise straps Of velvet, very short, fin
ished on the edge with perpendicular
bands or galloon. Pipings of silk finish
the edges of some of the circular fiounces.
Nevertheless the fuller skirts are inevi-
table If the loose coats find popular favor,
and in general the new winter fashion
will illustrate one phase of expansion,
even though 1t is slight. The fare at the
bottom is quite as pronounced as ever,
but we have learned wisdom from expert
ence and dispensed with the superhuous
inches Of length directly in front. so that
the correct skirt for dressy gowns just
touches the floor. or a little more than
that, 10 make sure that 1t is not short.
The length In the back is the same,
however, except for the tailor-made
street gown, which is short ali around in
comparison, provided it is made plainly
gor morning wear A well-equipped outfit
has two tailor gowns, one plain and short
enough to clear the ground and the other
as dressy the tailor can produce.
Z AS for the fashionable sleeve, words
are inadequate for any comprehensive de
scription. declares a fashion authority in
Ehe New York Sun" II is varied in
SYery possible manner between the sim
pie coat sleeve and the exaggerated XII
mono shape. which appears In some of
the new loose coats. one point, however,
which may suifice as bit OF general ia
formation in regard to outline is that the
fullness is all below the elbow, the flare
beginning Just above il.
Apparently there is no limit to the va
siations which can be rung on the sleeve,
provided you keep somewhere within the
prescribed lines. In dressy gowns the
flowing effect is made with frills of dou-
BILE chiffon and wide lace edging, and the
1ndersleeye is a close-fitting transparent
sffair. finished with straight wTistband.
Some of the sleeves In heavy wool mate
1ials are full and pufy below the elbow,
with deep wrstband fitting the arm
closely.
The straight sleeve ending below the ell
bow in bell shape, falling over long. |
fun undersleeve, is one of the striking |
novelties, and here we have the little cuff |
and old-time lace frill over the hands. |
Three puffs Of silk mouseeline, net or |
lace form one variety OF undersleeve, and |
ffere are puffed sleeves, too, in some Of |
the tea Jackets, very suggestive of the |
time when sleeves resembled small bal |
looms.
in some Of the light gowns trimmed |
with black lace the undersleeve is Of |
black silk null dotted over with steel |
spsngles, but then, IL will be almost i'm |
cessible TO go wrong on sleeves this sea- |
son no matter where you begin or what |
You have. Anthing which, by any stretch |
SIeeye is in sight, and herein lies the |
Most conspicuous change IN the fashion |
Cng Of our gowns.
One element of dress most attractively !
illustrated among the imported novelties