Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-02-09
Seasons Skirts Must Be Narrow
Paris Has So Ordered, and of
Course American Women
viii Obey.
PETTIC0AT A DEAD LETTER
Unless OF the Thinnest Material, II
viii Not Be Worn--Outsde Blouse
Grows In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
to Be Used as Substitute
for Embroidery.

New York.-Every cable brings from
Paris the news that the skirts of 1917
will be narrow. All those In the watch
towers have proclaimed the coming of
this enemy to full skirts since last Sep
TENDER, but only in limited segments of
society was the news acted upon. The
manufacturers had the material for
full skirts, the wholesale houses turned
them out by the thousands, and Ii was
only left to the exclusive women and
their dressmakers to cut down the
width and lengthen the hem.
Even now there are skirts that are
slightly gathered to the waistllne, and
| these are coming from some of the
best houses in Paris, but they are
dropped over a lower skirt that Is
quite narrow. No matter what the
fullness, every skirt clings to the fig
ure, as 1t did In the end Of the eight
eenth century.
Petticoats are dead, unless they are
Of chiffon, crepe de chine or jersey
silk.
The question which will soon con-
front every woman is whether she
wishes to change the silhouette Of her
skirt or go on wearing 1t until 1t Is
ready to be discarded. One cheerful
feature of the return to the slim sill
houette Is that full skirt can be cut
into narrow one with ease.
The Outside Blouse.
That garment known as the outside
blouse, which Is merely short,
twelfth century chemise, has grown
quite important and popular since the
large shops copied the exclusive
French models and placed them with
in the reach of the average purse.
The new ones started at $S5; you can
now buy them for So or $40 In those
ments are sold. They still remain Mt
$50 in the shops that are neither de-
partmental nor exclusive.
Women like them. They are more
becoming than the white shirtwaist
and they do not make demands on
ones purse for laundry. They have q
thin lining of their own, which is a
|
the time nor the money to arrange q
vast variety Of expensive underwear
which shows through thin white
blouse.
Skirts Of Other Materials.
These outside blouses are worn will
skirts that are not of their material
or color, so this makes for economy
and comfort at once. So far, they are
In chiffon embroidered in silk floss OF
bullion thread, but there are some very
smart ones coming in colored satins
The sleeve is half length or long, but
the latter should be chosen for every
occasion except ones own dinner table
The neck Is cut In the Renaissance
fashion; in fact, the eXtraordinar.
high collar, standing or turned over
has given way to the fiat, twelfth cen
fury neckline.
This Is cut in many ways. Tit
dressmakers do not held one down t
the veritable Renaissance. Jenny ha
taken up the Italian decolletage TO
the daytime, which is cut in the form
of delta. A new gown which sh
sends over, which was copied from
Rembrandt portrait and which Is o
black panne velvet with girdle an
arm pieces of black satin, has no OF
namentation at the neckline. The vel
vet is cut to the base of the neck a
the back, then out on each side to tn
; armpits and goes in straight lin
| across the chest below the collarbOnt
1t may be safely said that the thou
sands who are continuing to wear tn
neck arrangement of the last thre
years because 1t Is becoming and con
Portable, are not In fashion. The vas
Industries in this country connecte
with the manufacturing of neckwea
: will surely set up howl OF protes