Arizona republican., 1910-02-19


 remarked a pronounced unevenness in the hanging of the skirt.
 Why is it. madame" she asked, that so many of the early imported models. beautiful and teeming with style as they are, yet show such care lessness in finish? I've often noticed the sleeves may not even match in size
 Madame smiled.
 That is the disadvantage of being an American. or the advantage. which, ever way you look upon it," she re- piled, "and. being an American. I think that you will choose the latter Over in Paris they have a way of saying. Those models for America, they must be rushed. rushed. They want them in a curry. and just so they get them quick. they can fix them up afterward.'
 "So you see we get the very earliest models and can give our customers the very first choice of designs. The Paris houses give us the styles and we have to furnish the workmanship ourselves. But you must admit that the Americans arc really the best off of all with this combination. What is more typical of the hurry. hurry of our people," continued ma dame. that the exposition of such frocks as these right here in the midst of our spell of real winter? It is the first genuine sample of winter that New York has had for years, but does the New York woman of fashion allow herself to enjoy it? Indeed. no,
 Even when she is wrapped up in her furs-comfortably. for the first time in many long day-she puts them on to come to the modiste to order her thin frocks for summer. These models you have just seen were brought in only last week. and yet we have taken countless order from them.
 "Oh, yes, many of them arc for people going south" continues ma dame in answer to question. but many of the orders are from people who do not intend to go at all It is merely the habit of living in the fu- ture. the custom of the time and place in which we live. and there is no changing it.
 We dressmakers know that when the snow begins to fall we have to begin to plan hot weather gowns. It is demanded. it is the time But 1t is never a hardship to work out sum- mer ideas she went on. and never was there a more enviable task than the developing of the ideas contained in the early models for the coming season."
 Belts. belts everywhere marked the exhibition of costumes. All the inn ported models were constructed along the same general lines whether of pat ent leather or of calfskin. and were carefully and delicatcly tinted SO as to match or harmonizc exactly with any possible shade of costume. They were decidedly pretty, as well they might be. for although. very simple. none was seen which sold for less than S6.
 In other than these lingerie mod els the belted idea was carried still further A heavy linen in two shades of violet had a very unusual skirt which depended upon the belt for its novelty. the belt being not at the waist but just above the knee.
 The effect was not at all that of the recently passed Moyen Age, for the skirt hung from snug waist band. straight and simple and con- paratively limp. But just above the knee the belt, four or five inches in width and of the deeper violet tone. passed In and out through vertical slits cut in the skirt and drew it ini with q slight fulness. The accompa- nying coat. which was tighter fitting than those of last year, was similarly held in at the waist line with a deeper toned belt.
 So the American woman is employ ing the chilly hours in laying in her supply of tunics and belts for the summer. She knows that they arc just over and that she is getting-a first choice. and. independently. cares not about unevenly hanging skirts and what the Parisian may have to say