The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

New York, Oct. 10-(Special.)-And still they come-the new modelsNof fall and winter styles, one more bewitch- ing than the other and all Of them tempting to distraction.
 There is an infinite variety of forms, commentators, colors, and materials. enough to bewilder the eye, but all or them, nevertheless. follow the general idea governing the prevailing style
 The voluptuous lines and lovely curves so fashionable last season are no longer in vogue and artificial pad ding for bust and hips no longer in de- mand. Instead the long straight lines and curveless silhouettes of the Direct oire and Of the Empire are soVer- eign. The extreme models or the prs emf style are, undoubtedly, becoming to the tall, slim and curveless woman, with long necks and small hips, but for women of more generous development they are almost impossible, or rather quite so, The reason is quite obvious: if is easier to supply the lacking de- velopment by judicious padding than to eliminate the natural tissue that re- fuses to fit into the straight lines or the prevailing style. It is this fact which promises to cut ihort the hIe of the new fashion.
 The new style skirts are so revolu. tionary in cut and so difficult to ad- inst to the figure, even to one that IS naturally slim and graceful, that the American dressmakers have not yet mastered it's intricacies. It Will pc some time before they will be able to become used to the peculiarities of the cut and to adapt themselves, at the sana time to the notifications made necessarily by the individual taste ana physlcal development or tneir patrons
 The short, walking skirt presents
 than the long, Itdll- ing skirt, owing to the prevailing cir cniar cut and it is safe to say that many of the new short skirts Will pc hopelessly unbecoming to the average figure They are glove-fitting over the hips and plain in the back, --dch ike the style of a few years ago. Fortu- nately there are some variations which aerorS some relief. clever tricks of gor- ing plaits introduced skillfully on the sides below the hips. etc, which make if possible to adjust these skirts in fairly becoming way. A perfectly nat bask line is fashionable in conJuncton with slender and narrow hips. But Tor a woman with ample and well accent mated hips 1t would be absurd to at tempt the straight back line. As 1t !s. tha excessively narrow lJng skirt which appears upon many of the im- norted French models is too extreme to he accepted without reservations by an overwhelming majority or the women and few of them will be worn. But s,.ora ampIe models are turned out by even inc most authoritative French bouses and the fashionable women In tbts country may, therefore, assert their individual taste at least to a certain extent. without far of being
 tbe evening gowns of the winter ora to be undeniably simple even when not fashioned upon purely classical iines it is obvious that scarfs giving inoo straight lines, will be more than ever in use. They offer a welcome means of subduing the tendency of ,-o1nntuous hip and bust lines to assert tSar1saIves too much to be in harmony IvJth inc demands of fashion. Women of generous development will do well to make a judicious use of scarfs and similar means of accentuating the long vertical lines of the Direetoire style.