Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-10-06
SAD PURPLE AND
DEAD LEAF GREEN
.DESPoTIc FASHION DEGREES
NEW SHADES AND SHAPE
FOR WOMEN.
WAIST LINE RETURNS AFTER
YEARS OF WANDERING FROM
NATURAL SITE.

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this winter-those of the cutout not
needed for the back of the hat-and
artichokes, heretofore thought adapt
able exclusively to salads, viii be
coUnterfeited into buttons. Such cor
ors as sad purple and dead leaf green
will come to the fore in preference
% the old time blues, yellows ana
green's.
The foregoing are few of the
edicts of fashion coming cut of ,ue
dressmakers' convention at Chicago,
In general, untechnical terms, the
figure resembling an hour glass win
take the preference over the figure
just waning in popularity, which was
described by a masculine person as
resembling the piccolo.
The dynasty of the Louis of
France will furnish the inspiration as
well as many of the lines for dresses
of evening wear with Nine. de Pom
padour effects prevailing. The mid
die ages will continue to provide the
basis of operation for afternoon mar
keting, shopping, and general utility
gowns.
Waist Line Returns Home.
After two years Of logitudinaI tray
el the waist line shows signs of re-
turning 20 a permanent residence on
the site staked off for it by nature
Indeed, the disquieting fluctuations of
the last two years in every depart
ment of styles have all but vanished.
and a woman can this winter buy
the dress of her heart, Embarrassed
by the thought that before she gets
it, in all of its short waistedness, to
her residence. a new style will have
been sprung, in which the waist line
has been extended to the knee. When
she walks down Main street she will
likewise be free from the thought, so
disturbing to the higher criticism and
women's club enterprises, that her
skirt, but one month old, is plated
while every other woman's is gared
The plain skirt and the plated.
the short waist and the long, will all
have a showing in this years styles
In a general way. moreover, they
will maintain the contour of last
years productions, so that the wo.
man who has a perfectly good cos
tune, wGieh was a masterpiece of
last season, need not hesitate to
show her head above water in It this
fall. Sleeves are going to be shorr-
those of them as amt long" as the
situation was expressed by the back
nanny door attendant of the con-
vention. Too many women have good
arms, however, to admit of the Ell
bow effect remaining long in abey
ance.
Dutch Collars To Be Worn.
Collars, instead of being limited as
heretofore only by the boundaries of
the ear, viii take on more of the
natural lines of the neck, and those
women with beautiful throats may
still display them through the medi-
um of the Dutch collar
The "moyen age" gowns of the
long waist line will undergo one
change for Which dressmakers win
not be entirely responsible. They Will
be more closely fitted than formerly
under the arms-and this for the in
coutrovertible reason that the wo-
men will not wear the looser ones
and those dresses which have start
ed life as grand afternoon affairs are
ending their days az bathrobes.
One of the notorious dresses which
win probably come up for censure
and will not he reproduced in local
models is the dress said by the dress
makers to have been condemned by
two continents when worn this sum
mer by Grace La Rue. Although II
is of the Louis XIII. period they say
it violates American 'anons OF art
in other respects than in its diapn-
anous texture, unreinforced by petit
coats.