The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-08-13

on the market since July and the
people who copy each acceptable
fashion I'm large qualities are already
at work. Soon the shops will offer
them as the first and most authorita-
tive ideas in winter fashions. Whether
or not they prove TO be all that their
agents claim for them is doubt that
VIII not deter hundreds of women
from buying them. because they are at
hand and fall clothes are always need.
ed as soon as the first chill makes it's
appearance. except by those lucky
ones who always find a suit or frock
LETT over from the preceding season.
which happens TO fill the first neces-
sity.
There Is strong tendency In each
OF the fashions that are advanced as
forerunners of what Is to come IN
October toward fiattened hips. For
the last few months we have grown
quite large In that spot; we have
avoided any appearance of slimness
and given ourselves over to gathers
and plaits at the waist line. This
fashion was deplored by all but the
excessively slender, yet as all the
models called for a certain amount
OF fullness from waist TO ankles there
seemed no other way TO arrive at it
except through a wide circular skirt,
O. cut TO which the majority of women
objected.
The latter method of cutting the
skirt, however, is the one that is ad-
vanced today and the unevenness of
the hem, which is sure to result, is
Offset by accentuating IL and using
cord or plating as an edge
To quiet the rebellion against this
kind of skirt among the larger num-
Der OF women the Spanish fiounce has
been revived on all kinds of skirts,
or rather on skirts made of various
materials. Organdie. broadcloth, CAB
erdine, velvet, batiste mad satin are
the fabrics that show this deep ruffle;
1t gives the necessary fullness at the
knees without increasing the girth
around the hips.
1t may not matter very much how
one achieves that line of slimness at
the hips and width at the ankles; the
main thing is to be we'll assured of
the silhouette and then work it out
through any channel one desires. II
is in just this divergence of method
makers have chance of success.
There is silver lining to the cloud of
full skirts If these individual treat
ments are welcomed; especially will
the incoming of the deep flounce with
the smooth hip line please the women
who have looked unpleasantly abnor-
NAL In the skirts that were gathered
about the waist.
As to the frankly circular skirt
which is growing in favor among
those who decide on the fashions,
there is silver cloud to it also A
band Of some kind of opposing fab
ric is dropped below the uneven edge
OF the hem which frames 1t in, or
rather gives 1t a straight selvedge.
The introduction of this redeeming
feature has turned Encouragement
into optimism. 1t may be possible,
after all, say many, to wear a circu-
lar skirt with confidence In it's be-
havior, something that has been i'm
possible since circular skirts were in
vented.
In thu prevailing taffeta frocks that |
will be worn without coats on warm
days and with them on chill days, the
skirts are scalloped, not unduly. the
edges corded. and the uneven line
held together by q five-inch band of
double net which is slightly gathered
and steadied on its lower edge by a
-hick cord of the taffeta.
If you are not familiar with this
method of finishing an uneven skirt
lem it is quite worth your while TO
ry it. The effect is good because
he skirt has the appearance of be-
ne actually finished: the ragged edge
Toes not always give this.
Copyright. 1915 by the Mcclure Newspa.
per Syndicate.)