The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-21

time for even the ultra conserya-
tive woman to put few gathers
into her skirt. says the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The advertisement has appeared. SO
have the gathers. There are still
protests. still women who insist tina;
they never. never will be slaves.
but the majority seem to have gone
over to the new silhouettes with
resignation. even with enthusiasm.
Paris likes the new modes New
York is learning to like them. The
skirt that seemed eNagseratedly full
in March looks conservative in May,
and latest models from famous de
signcrs are quite as full often full
Ter than those of the earlier open
lngs Bands of horsehair are freely
used for spreading skirts. and the
more radical reeds run in around
the skirt between shirrings are no
longer exceptional. while pettiCoats
rutfled and boqffant and quite stur-
dy enough to hold ont the skirts
worn over them are plentiful in
all the shops
That women viii actually revert
to the oldfashioned hoop skirts even
the credulous can hardly believe,
and the less extreme hoopskirt of
the recent advertisement may not
find ready sale: but many a skirt
wide enough TO belong in the sum-
mer outfit of a Civil War time belle
will be Haunted bravely along this
summers ways.
Some of the very recent variations
upon the theme are delectable
enough to soften the most severe
prejudice against bilIowing skirt
folds There is. for instance in a
certain Fifth avenue shop an after
noon frock which would make more
than one kind of flutter in any
summer crowd
It's a skirt which swells out al
most to hoopskirt dimensions, is of
the sheerest organdie and is fes-
TONED with many narrow, overlap
ping Tuffles almost up to the hip
line Not touch of trimmings,
Just the sheer white fluffiness, crisp
and cool and delightfully."- feminine.
over this skirt is worn. surprisingly
enough a little coat of dark blue
taffeta. nipped in at the waist.
finishing in full, short pep
lum frill below the waist, show
ing a tiny white vest that narrows
as it ascends until it disappears
where it meets a flat collar of
white The short, slightly belling
sleeves have little frills of white.
A frock almost anyone could copy
successfully, but that only an artist
would design.
THE FRlLL'S THE THING.
Delightful things are done with
ruffles and frills this season. lrreg-
ular bottoms of the wide skirts of
fer ample opportunity for individual
treatment of this sort. and frillness
goes we'll with the general outline
and the summer stuffs Even be
low dark or bright colored and wide
ly flaring overskirts of silk or linen
or even wool one often catches q
glimpse of white underskirt frills
vaguely reminiscent of pantalettes,
and many overskirts running up at
the sides uncover soft white frills
Sometimes these same long front
and back and short side skirts I'M
cover only ankles at the sides anC
are themselves trimmed in frills or
built up entirely of deep overlapping
flounces.
A costume in which a grandmother
of the present generation might
have made afternoon visits and
which was interesting rather than
beautiful, though authoritatively
sponsored, had one of these pointed
in blue and green plaid silk, the two
flounces and the overskirt all being
very sharply pointed and shaped to
flare widely. Over this plaid skirt
fell a mantle of dark blue silk, cut
TO flare as widely as the skirt flOunc-
es and not much more than waist
length at the sides. but running
down in long point in front. This
mantle was lined and faced with
plaid silk, and a Quainter model has
not been shown in this season Of
things best described by that over
worked adjective.
Even the June wedding gowns may
be flounced, and though the tradi-
tional slim silhouette in association
with a veil has firm artistic founda-
ton, short frocks of flaring skirts
and flounces have been prepared for
some Of the seasons brides, and
the wedding wells shortened accord
ingly. Only a piquant and pretty
bride should dare to revolt, but clev-
erly worn the arrangement has its
merit.
In nets and laces soft ruffles run
into all sorts of vagaries, being soft
enough not to interfere too radically