Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-18
MUTTON LEG SKIRT
IS DUE THIS FALL
National Tailor's Association so De-
cides and 1t Will Be Quite a Lamb
Of a Garment.
ANOTHER DISTINCTIVE
SKIRT CALLED NAPOLEON
Has Turnback Cuff All Around Bot
tom Just Like Trousers of Regu-
lar Man, 1t Appears.
BY MARGARET MASON.

written for the United Press)
A skirt called Leg o. Mutton
Annette will wear this fall;
She II cram" her hat about her ears.
And make sleeps eyes at all.
New York, July 1S.-You are due to
don a mutton leg skirt this fall Per.
haps you II feel a trifle sheepish in
one at first, but the National Tailors
Association have wished it on you if
you would be swagger,
It's really quite a lamb of a skirt.
cut two inches above the waist in
the back and at the waist line in the
front, Plain, down to two inches be.
low the hips, it is box.pleated from
there on two inches below the knee
and thence plain again to the very fn-
ish. Developed in shepherd plaid it
is just the thing for the trotteur SUIT
sheep.trotter, as 'twere,
In mutton leg skirt, slit to reveal
little calf, with mole on your
cheek, rat lion in your hare, with
your neck little bear and your voice
little horse, you are bound to take
some stock in fall fashions. The leg
skirt a Ia mutton leg is sure to make
hit with the butchers bride anyway,
but IL 1t doesn't quite meat with your
approval, the National Tailors' Asso.
citation fixed it all up for you with
lot of other styles at their sixth an.
nual convention which just closed here.
There s another distinctive new skirt
dubbed the Napoleon, which has a turn
back cuff all around the bottom lust
like the trousers OF a regular man. II
is narrower than ever aud slit well up
in front Side droping has been in.
troduced underneath in the region of
the knees so when fragile female de.
sircs to sit, she may sink down grace.
fully with the leeway of this extra
expansion, and at the same time this
concealed fullness keeps the skirt from
baggng at the knees like the trousers
Of rejected suitor.
Then there are the new pistol pocl.
cts on the tight walking skirts. After
going all over the femme figure the
only spot whore a pocket could he 10.
Gated without the bulge marrng the
symmetry Of nature and the taior's art
was on the hip. Hence the pistol pock.
cts are the first shots fired in the fall
fashion campaign, OF course, YOU
don 7 have to be gun.toter to wear
EN- You can pun a powder puff or
hpstick just as we'll Made Of gunny
very snoppy and the jackets are all
cloth, these pistol pocket suits are
appropriately weighted with shot.
The short Jacket was indeed short.
lived. This fall coats are to he from
thirty'siN to forty inches The Rus.
sian blouse and the square cutaway
are the prevailing styles and the coat
sleeves win be either raglan or kmona.
Vests with Mcdici collars will he
much worn and they will all he double
breasted.
A mixture Of three periods and
three notionaitics makes up three
piece suit strcd the Impcrator. In the
coat is combined tho Italian Medici
French First Empire, aud the droopinp
shoulder Of the prcsentday Japan. The
material is pebble matelasse combined
with broodcloth IN shade Of dark
eluc, The skirt Is an angular drapcd
ono cut out very wide at the top and
coming to distinct angles at the bot.
tom with a tassel at each angle and
with the drapings underneath the an.
giles, The bodice is Of blue chiffon
over green and the military braiding
on the coat and skirt is done with A