The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-05
THE eURTAILED SKIRT.
Correct Length in London for the Holi- day Season.

Correct Length in London for the Holi- day Season.
 The curtailed skirt, with no train to attract the microbes of the pavement nor to weary it's wearer's little hands over it's uplifting, was promised an un-. interrupted success this season by some of the tailors. Its hygfenic qualities and it's comfortable properties, 1t was felt, would secure it welcome from women. But July is here and the short skirt is only, so far as London goes, a rarely vouchsafed vision. Women evi- dently have some grievance against it. 1 What is it A West End dressnakef declares his surprise, not that the short skirt has failed to arrive, but that any one vas I foolish enough to imagine it would until every opportunity for wearing muslins is over. No flnsy fabric like muslin, which requires flowing lines for it's per- l feet naturalization, can be made short. land at the same time graceful More l over with no short skirt can picture. I hat or a diaphanous blouse be Worn.5 The two modes are absolutely antago- lnistic, for one spells elegance and the lother utility, and both must be equipped. with ct ceteras to match.
 Trains, then, are as necessary to all. I toilets made for women to wear at cer- emonious affairs as silk hats and froek.
 coats are the essential items of a mans | full dress daytime gala attire. Ascot iwould have frowned had a short skirted. woman appeared on the scenes, and at l Goodwood there will not be one. But it lmust be admitted that the long, Wasp- Hike, rat-tail train has not been made I this season.
 I Round effects are coming in, and the correct length for the skirt of a woman whose height is five feet seven inches land who is fashionably slim and long
 waisted is i'll front forty-tWo inches and at the back forty-nine inches. There is
 grace in this length, and grace the sex will have.
 Modern English women approve no violent changes, but rather feel their
 way toward alterations by gradual de- Igrees. Therefore, the same women, iWhen the traveling season begins and the opportunity for skirts that clear the l ground arrives will put on a skirt that measures forty inches in front and for l ty-two at the back,
 I It will not be nearly so curtailed as 1.-the skirt donned by the American globe ltrotter who boldly cut hers as short as ia girl Of fourteen and wore it from =I three to four inches off the ground all lround, but 1t will nicely clear the lground, and demand no irksome wrist
 work to keep 1t from the blemish of the roads. s l The shoemakers are quite ready for
 the invasion of the short holiday skirt I with smart and becoming models, and the hosiers are likewise on the alert.
 White shoes have gone out of fashion, land there is, indeed, not great demand for colored shoe leather at present
 Even the nut brown and the clay leath- Ter summer shoe is in less request than g lwell cut, laced up, serviceable looking lblack Cromwell shoe, or one with three
 straps over the ankle to button,
 There is always steady demand
 among the smart set for biscuit tinted
 shoes to be worn with trained muslins
 and linen frocks at the German water,
 ing places, but the short skirt, regarded
 as it is as a strictly utilitarian product
 lis to be borne company by the blacl
 lshoe. Boots. therefore, are being ia
 Hess sold than they were save for noun
 taineering, moor and like hard work
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