The Seward gateway., 1915-10-09
Tells the Fashion To Seward Women More Comes Specially From Miss - Mason to Put Us Wise
 on Waists.
By MARGARET MASON

" iiANNI Abi NiA' CAi'N''t . 'N'''f
 Make haste and take your girdlc off It's not good style they say
 Though belted Earls may be good
 form
 The belted girls passe.
 NEW YORK, Oct. l.-Here's some thing else to take off in the name of Fashion. Girdes and belts simply aren't to be worn this season. This stern decree may bring the blush to the cheek of those who recall what a vital part the girdIc plays on the 1915 evening gown. Rob an evening con- lection of this its last stay of stability and what nave you. There's nothing to it. Since an evening gown consists solely of a girdle and a shoulder strap a banishment of the girdle is bound to leave much open to discussion. No doubt many will unbosom themselves unduy on the subject. It's bound to make it might embarrassing for a fellow, too. How in the world can he tell whether his lady fair is wearing her waist in the middle or up under her shoulder blades with no disting- uishing belt to blaze a trail. Even the poor girl herself is apt to be bit dazed and mislay her waistlinc alto gether. What with donning a normal waistline basque in the morning, a longwaisted Moyen Age effect at noon and an Empire gown at night shes bound to lose her sense of waist loca- tion without a single belt to cling to.
 Just a mere miliner's fold of goods will join the bodices to skirts this year, a tiny cord or ofttimes just a seam. Naturally in the much herald ed princess frocks no joining at the waist line is necessary and they may go to the head of the class Of girdoss gowns, Shirring, cording, shocking and godets are only few of the many ways for finishing the waistIineS now that the all swathing girdIe and the snug clapped belt have been re- moved from all fashionable cent.rs.
 You can enjoy a good laugh in any kird of sleeves you want to this Fall and Winter for Bishop sleeves, puff sleeves and our old friend the leg of mutton will be among those present when the call comes to present arms. Leg of mutton sleeves particularly are due for a decided vogue and you will find them all puf'ed up in mmy stunning gown Long tight sleeves are still good style but an indication of puffing be it ever so tiny is begin ming to be glimpsed at their start out from the arm hole and decidedly puffy finish for them should not prove surprising. The haring bell sleeves are very popular with fur banding and make a fitting component part of a custom whose short faring skirt is also thus furnished with fur.
 Ballon sleeves, much tinier than the balIon sleeves of our salad days, now inlate themselves between the drop ped shoulder seam to just below the elbow. A funny little short puff at the very top of the sleeve, with a long slim finish to the hand, is quaint and old fashioned. A banding of mar row fur often finishes the short puff and again repeats itself around the wrist or sometimes tiny double shir- ring of the material does the same service. Transparent sleeves still cling diaphonously to well rounded forearms and though there is noth- ing thick about them they have more than a slim chance of survival as the most fitting of sleeves. With their wierd propensity for erupting puffs at most unexpected places the only real thing about the Fall and Winter sleeves is that they will all be long if they belong to the mode.
 JOHN l.. SULLIVAN GETS