Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-02
Fashions

HH home dressmaker has a very
big bone to pick with Madame La
= Mode at the present moment.
The new skirt is trying her in
genuity and her skill almost to break
ing point.
Nowadays SO much depends on the
hip yoke and the tiny corselet, and this
latter in itself is the severest test of
all, and to apply it with immaculate
effect to the wide band Of webbing
which is so carefully fitted to the figure
and holds it taut underneath often de-
fies amateur efforts.
The New Hip Yoke
One Of the prettiest skirts is fash
toned with yoke cut into very deep
point over the hips, and describing q
kind Of arched effect in front, into
which the pleats are set. This yoke
in some cases occupies nearly half the
skirt, and in alliance with skirt of
dark gray cloth was adorned with a
row of horn buttons trimmed with
aluminium. Numbers of the double
skirts have the upper part or tunic cut
away to a very few inches in the exact
front, while it is graduated at the sides
till it touches the hem of the jupe at
the back.
Short Skirts
The craze for short skirts seems to
grow apace in London, and this sem
sible attitude with regard to the walk
ing costume saves every woman SO
much in money, temper and labor on
her own part or that Of her maid, that
one wonders why we are ever com
PEELED to hold up our skirts in a muddy
road or to suffer from the continual
fraying out of the edge. The majority
of Englishwomen walk well in short
skirts, but the art of holding up the
gown is not one which we have mas
tered as a nation, and it usually leaves
a good deal to be desired.
New Clasps and FiIIets
The wearing of canoes is becoming
once again a fashion which has as
many adherents, one might say, as
there are women who include genuine
canoes among their possessions or who
can afford to purchase a few choice
specimens.
AS a matter of fact, the cameo re-
mains one of the few relics of the
empire styles which is left us this sea-
son, huge creamy, clear cut examples
in old-fashioned gold settings being
often used to clasp the wide belts of
furnished gold or silver, or to catch the
folds of the fichu or scarf. There are
certain fillets, too, which consist of a
band OF woven gold thread like broad
braid encircling the oval-shaped head
dress, and which are caught together
with large cameo placed just over the
left ear.
Numbers of the fillets of today are,
besides, designed of five or six strings
of smoked or colored pearls or of large
cut jet beads caught at intervals with
a slide and making very becoming
encircling band round the hair.
Long Coats of Fur and Velvet
Every woman seems to desire the pos
session of a long fur or velvet coat al
the present moment. Both are decided
ly reminiscent this season of the coats
of the eighties, many of them being de-
signed to fasten right down to the edge
i'm a straight line, which make them
rather close fitting round the skirts,
while the front braiding is largely
adopted In the case of velvet. The
Guards designs is in broad braid car
ried right down the coat from the
throat to the hem is favorite pattern,
while the coat, finished with border
of fur running all round 1t in the form
of wide band, and worn with large,
close toque of velvet or fur, reminds
one instinctively of the days when
hand painted photograph albums were
in vogue, and when confession books
We're only just beginning to decline in
favor.
Collars and Revers of Leather
The long knitted coat has by no
means disappeared from the scheme of
dress with the decline of the soi-disant
summer. In the hockey field and on
the golf links it is still the favorite
ri oh nf
the winter it is specially attractive
An authority has, besides, commenGe 4
1t as capital item for the woman
aviator, and so smartly is it cut and
tailored nowadays that there is abso-
lutely no reason to anticipate its de-
mise. Some of the neatest examples
are fashioned with wide collars and
revers of soft suede or leather dyed
exactly the same tint as the wool,
while the little turnover cuffs are fash
toned of the same, as well as a narrow
hem which in some instances runs