Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-21
Information From Paris
on Early Fashion

duil seasons, insist upon repeating
vanishing styles and putting them on
the market with the addition of
few clever touches. Part of the pub
lie is caught and does not care, an
other part Is wise enough to avoid
buying new clothes too early in the
season, and still another part Is
caught and becomes very irritatcd
about IT,
For one thing, tncre "A every be-
lief on the part of prophets who have
proved true in former seasons, that
the extra short skirt is doomed. al
tho the French women are wearing 1t
today. II Is "A question whether or
rot the women of Europe, and even
those in America. will he able to stand
the price of the extra high boots II
the scarcity of leather and the money
demanded for II continue
Another belief is that skirts will be
definitely narrower: all superfluous
drapery will be abandoned. Medic
valism will continue to run rampant
The frivolous fashions of the Pompa-
dour, Du Barry and Marie Antoinette
will he as dead as the women who
made them famous.
Waists will be made TO look as
large as the sculptors would have us
keep them. and girdles of depth. rich
be wrapped around the figure.
Realizing that every woman would
like advance information on the
styles that will die and the styles that
will live, a consensus of opinion was
accumulated from interviews with the
leading designers of Paris and is re-
peated here as they came from Paris:
What France Is Doing.
Styles for winter will very largely
influence cuts and combinations for
spring Spring ideas in dress will
continue only on lines now followed,
with possibly a few engagements and
variations. Things have been chang
ing since August The houses. after
getting the American commissioners
Off their hands. turned their attention
to real winter styles. and when those
| same foreign merchants shortly re-
turn to the French capital they will!
find effects not very different from
those they left.
At IA swift glance, one sees that both
skirts and jackets are less full and.
consequently, less heavy. Instead OF
being folW and one half yards in
width, skirts are two yards in grth.
Jackets do not ripple in the least.
I they lie flat and plain about the form,
giving the suggestion that they have
been fitted to the figure. The big,
loose pocket IL here, as Il matter OF
course, but while IL is broad II is not
bulky and does not cause the Jacket
to sag, as was the case at the begin
uing of the season. These pockets are
too picturesque not to be repeated for
midwinter. and they will trim the
spring jacket. altho modified in size.
Regarding the length of skirts the
Partisan wears hers to the top of a
high boot The skirt that almost
reaches the ankle has not really ar
rived. With the high boot. the eX-
treme shortness is not noticeable. yet,
if measured. one would find that the
average fashionable skirt was only
shin long" Evening skirts are an
inch or so longer, but the skirt, take
1t for any function you wish, is short,
and when 1t lengthens in the spring
1t will not he more than inch or so.
have never seen Parisiennes more
vhic or better groomed than during
the last few months, and they them
] selves realize that much of the effect