Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-09-05
The Curtailed Skirt.

The curtailed skirt, with no train to at
tract the microbes of rhe pavement nor
TO weary Its wearer's little hands over its
uplifting. was promised an uninterrupted
success this season by some of the tailors.
It's hygiene qualities and its comfortable
properties it was felt would secure il a
welcome tor women. But August is
here. and the short skirt is only. So far as
Tendon goes, u rarely vouchsafed vision.
Women evidently have some grievance
against it. What is il!
West End dressmaker declares his
surprise. not that the short skirt has
failed 10 arrive, but that any one was
IoollSh enough to imagine ii would until
every opportunity of wearing muslins is
over. No fiimsy fabric like muslin. which
requires flowing lines for its perfect ma
terlallzation, can be made short and at
the same time graceful. Moreover, with
no short skirt can a picture hat or di-
aphanous blouse be worn. The two
modes are absolutely antagonistic, for one
spells elegance and the other utility. and
both must be equipped with ct ceteras to
match
Trains. then, are as necessary to all
toilets made for women to wear at cere-
monlous affairs as silk hats and froek
coats are the essential items of man
fuli-dress daytime gala attire Ascot
would have frowned had Short-skirted
woman appeared on the scenes, and AZ
GoodwoOd there will not be one. But
it must be admitted that the long. wasp.
like, rat-tail train has not been made
this season.
Rotund effects are coming in, and the
correct length for the skirt of a woman
whose height is five feet seven inches
and who is fashionably slim and long
WASTED. is in front forty-two inches and
at the back forty-nine inches. There is
grace in this length and grace the sex
will have.
Modern Engiishw0men approve no VIC
lent changes, but rather feel their way
coward alterations by gradual degrees
Therefore the same women when the
travelling season begins and the oppor.
tGnity for skirts that clear the ground
arrives will put on skirt that meas.
ures 10 inches in front and II at the
back. 1t will not be nearly so curtailed
rs the skirt donned by the American
globe trotter who boldly cut hers as short
us girl of II. and wore it from three Il
four inches off the ground all round, but
1t will nicely clear the ground and de
mand no irks0me wrist work to keep il
from the blemish of the roads,
The Shoemakers are quite ready for the
invasion of the short holiday skirt with
smart and becoming models, and the no
slers are likewise on the alert White
shoes have gone out of fashion. and there
u. indeed, not Il great demand for colored
shoe leather ut present. Even the npt.
brown and the clay leather summer shoe
Is in less request than a well-cut. laced
up. serviceable looking black 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 musiins
nm Il IsV.aE II.
places. but the short skirt, regarded as It
is as Il strictly utilitarian product. is to
be borne company by the black shoe.
Boots. therefore. are being far less sold
than they We're. save for mountaineering,
moor, and like hard work.--London Mail.