The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-27

ground will prevail for street wear this
fall and winter as they have this sum-
mer and that for dressier occasions the
round length, just touching OF shorter
will be seen but that trains will disap-
pear entirely by next spring.
The reason for the introduction of
the short skirt is not hard to find, even
aside from the usual one given. that of
tickle feminine fancy. The skirt is
growing shorter because it is growing
fuller. 1t was hard enough to hold up
the long tight skirt; it is practical
impossibility to hold up a long full one.
short and full one looks awkward
long. There is no doubt that skirts will
be short as long as they are full and
judging by the law of action and re-
action, applicable to fashions as well
as everything else, they will be very
short indeed this winter as they have
been this summer although they will
probably get back to normal by next
spring.
81 am making slightly trained skirts
for elaborate occasions altogether,
says one dressmaker speaking of the
street skirts are short 81 have not
made a trained skirt since early last
spring." declares another, land if any
of my patronesses order them this fall
receptions and dressy wear make
round length skirts, touching the floor
but not trailing. iFor street and outing
my skirts are instep length or even
shorter" tAll the dress-up clothes are
still made with trained Skirts writes
Topeka woman visiting eastern sum-
mer resorts '1 have just had
dream of a crepe de chine in lavender"
a Chicago women of fashion just begin
ming to go out again after a period of
mourning said, land the skirt clears
the ground all around" So there you
are. 1t seems to be question of pay
ing your money and taking your choice,
now, but later no doubt sentiment will
have crystallized itself and the fashions
will be more clearly defined.
Many women are returning to the
old fashioned way of parting the hair,
but. this restoration of a charming but
disused style applies only to women
with abundant hair. The pompadour
and "beau catcher" coiffureS were a
boon to women with scant hair, be-
cause they gave the opportunity to
art to supply the defects of nature.
Miss Isabel May, daughter of Henry
May, has come forth with her thick
brown hair parted and draped back
in a simple coiled braid. Miss May
has never worn flowers or feathers in
her hair. Miss Daisy Letter is an
other fashionable woman who has
chung to the parted hair and likewise
her sister. Lady Curzon. Both of the
Letter girls have classic features, and
the tall pompadour is not becoming
to them, Mrs. Stanford White has al
ways parted her hair. and some of the
women who incline to-
ward simplicity in dress use the parted
coiffure.-New York Letter to the Chi |
cago Inter Ocean.
Dame Fashion has decided that she !
will no longer pull down her waist
in front and that she will return to |
the round, slender belt of some years |
ago, and this is what has SO abso- |
utely changed the figure.
During the past five years every |
has been pulling down her |
stays in front, hitching them fast to |
her stockings and then pulling down
aer bands and belts and girdIes to
make them meet the low-waisted re-
The result has been both |
good and comfortable, and it is doubt
,ul of the new figure will be one-half
is satisfactory.
But Dame Fashion says the figure