The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-16
TIGHT SKIRTS GOING
FULL STYLES OF 1880 ARE SOON
TO BE SEEN
Something About Early Fashions
Women in ST. Paul Do Not Wear
Heavy Enough Clothes During the
Extremely Cold Weather.

AS fashions are constantly going
from one extreme to another it will not
surprise us to learn that in the mat
ter Of skirts the early predictions are
for complete revolution in their
shape, and the disappearance Of the
tight, or what the French call the
skirt cut en- forme. This will be well
come news to many women, but not
perhaps to those who have already
had their early spring things cut with
tight skirts. reliable fashion maya
zine has a very interesting article on
this all-important subject of skirts
written by Mrs. Osborn, Of New York,
well-knOwn authority, and she tells
us that the dressmakers are turning
their attention to the full skirt Of
1880, and the new models are pat
termed after that style slightly mod
Grated. Heaven preserve us from
hoops! Yet there is a decided ten
dency that way. This welI-known
woman writer says that dressmakers
are trying to dispose of the fullness
of the 1880 skirt in a way to suit
moderns, and that some of these skirts
measure six or seven yards round the
bottom and as much as that round the
- OAoN' AIdS lOF the STOUT woman
Although if she could look any worse
In a full skirt than she looks in
tight one, it would surprise u.s. This
new style is extremely becoming to
the tall and graceful woman, and the
writer, not belonging to that category,
thinks all short, stout ones should be
killed off anyway, as far as, fashion
is concerned, for life is such a strug-
gle. Between ones desire to be within
bowling distance Of prevailing styles,
and yet not wear anything which ac-
centuates ones flesh, is making many
women old before their time
However, Mrs. Osborn says that for
the stout woman the dressmaker con-
fines the fullness to the bottom Of the
skirt and makes it fairly tight above.
and as long, straight folds are part
of this new skirt, the short woman is
by way of looking taller If she wears
one.
From Paris in the same magazine
Is some very good advice applicable
TO all cases and at all seasons, and
that Is no woman should feel that she
must wear thing just because it is
stylish. In other words. dress stylish
Iy and becomingly if you can, but do
not sacrifice becOmingness to prevail
ing modes. Do not lose sight of the
contour of your figure even at fash
IONS dictates; if you are narrow at
the shoulder. do not wear the dropping
shoulder effect even if it is correct, but
nave your waists so constructed that
they make you appear broader In the
shoulder.
This French authority tells us that
raspberry is one of the new fashion
able shades, Sealskin brown another
and mignonette green. Scarfs are also
much worn both in the house and in
the street. We may come. to these
graceful scarfs thrown about the shoul1
derS later on, but at present we need
them all over our ears without re-
gard to fashion.
Several things have been learned by
Minnesota women during this old-fash-
Toned winter, and one of them Is that
in such weather as has prevailed for
the last month they should have worn
more and different clothing. The silly
little jackets, ridiculous fur stoles
which women have worn this winter
are merely travesty on dressing in
the lace of the north wind and Bit
ter cold. The writer has made a VOW
to revolutionize her wearing apparel
II she lives another winter in Min
nesota, and many other women would
90 well to follow suit. 1t is not neces-
sary to wear a heavy fur coat all
winter, because one has put il on in
november, but in such weather as we
nave had recently only the most fool
ish woman will wear the same cloth
ing she began the winter with The
writer met a woman the other day
VINO has lived in Minnesota all her life
and who suffers greatly from the cold
unless she dresses for it, and this is
what she wears: Two suits from head
to foot of wool underwear; feece-Uned
stockings, three petticoats, heavy cloth
. dress and when she goes out puts
on tights and a fur coat with a fur
! collar over her ears. She seldom rides
or drives and naturally does not sufN
fer from cold