Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-12

on the market since July and the
| people who COPY each acceptable
fashion in large qualities are already
| at work. Soon the shops will offer
them as the frst 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
will 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 its
| appearance, except by those lucky
ones who always find a suit or a frock
left over from the preceding season,
which happens to I'LL the first neces-
sity.
There is a strong tendency in each
Of the fashions that are advanced as
forerunners Of what is to come in
| October toward fattened hips. For
the last few months we have grown
quite large in that spot; we have
avoided any appearance of shmness
| 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 certain amount
| of fullness from waist to ankles there
seemed no other way to arrive at it
except through a wide circular skirt,
cut to which the majority of women
objScted.
The latter method of cutting the
| skirt, however, is the one that is adj
vanced today and the unevenness of
| the hem, which is sure to result, is
| Offset by accentuating it 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. Organize. broadcloth, CAB.
| erdine, velvet, batiste mad satin are
| the fabrics that show this deep ruffie;
it gives the necessary fuIlness 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 a chance of success.
There is a silver lining to the cloud OF
| full skirts if these individual treat
ments are welcomed; especially will
| the incoming of the deep fiounce 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 a 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 it in, or
rather gives it 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 its be-
havior, something that has been i'm
possible since circular skirts were in
vented.
In the 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 a fve-inch band of
double net which is slightly gathered
and steadied on it's lower edge by a
thick cord of the taffeta.
If you are not familiar with this
method of finishing an uneven skirt
hem it is quite worth your while to
try it. The effect is good because
the skirt has the appearance of be-
ing actually finished; the ragged edge
does not always give this.
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per Syndicate.)