The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-08-18

white Jersey cloth trimmed with bands
Of black and white plaid Jersey. The
buttons are black, 80 is the sleeve lin
ing.
their workrooms detective force that
has much in common with the French
police system.
Women who wanted to sketch gowns
that were to be shown to the public
In a few days have been caught and
locked up In q dark room In one Of
the houses as though they were COM
mon criminals caught n\the act.
All the processes Of the French law,
and they are severe and terrorizing
to the stranger, are called into being
to punish an offender who tries to get
design Of a gown from French
house without permission.
There are leaks, however, from the
great French workrooms, as well as
from our departments in Washington.
Somehow, somebody knows the truth.
Rumors From Paris.
The things that we have been able
to find out are interesting. They may
prove true.
The new silhouette, 1t is said. will
be slim and tight just below the waist
line, around the hips, and there will be
no fare from shoulder to instep.
Coats are cut to the hipline and are
either bound in with fur or embroid-
cred cloth. There Is no attempt to
curve garments In at the waistline.
There Is no attempt to fiatten the
fabrics against the figure in order to
outline the anatomy beneath. The
cloth will hang in straight line from
the shoulder to the girdle at the hips,
thereby giving a well-known Oriental
/ silhouette that has come and gone
through the fashions In recurring
cycles.
Skirts will be exceedingly narrow
for walking, and for the evening they
will be long and In flowing lines that
do not flare, but cling to the figure In
the fashion of the Orient.
House gowns and evening gowns
will touch the floor and cover the toes
in front, swirling out into greater
length at the back.
The high collar, IT Is said, will re-
place the low one. The decolletage
that is expected is the straight, Italian
line of the fifteenth century, used In
mems costumery as well as women's.
In opposition to this is the high,
straight collar that does not fit under
the chin, thereby causing an ugly roll
Of flesh, but flares upward and out
ward. 1t is the collar that Sarah
Bernhard made famous more than
quarter of century ago.
These collars are shown on shirt
waists and one the bodices Of formal
and informal frocks. The immense
handkerchief collar Of the Revolution
will be put on coats, so rumor says,
and the deep. delta decolIetage adopt
ed In the American Revolution will be
used on dinner and restaurant gowns.
Plentiful Use Of Fur.
No cable from Paris excludes the
word fur. II one can Judge by these
forerunners of what Is to happen, such
as rumors, personal letters and cables,
the animal world will be sacrificed to
clothe women. No one can tell where
all the skins come from, but 1t is said
that In Paris every designer is lavish
ing fur on costumery as though 1t
were as plentiful rs grass.
The few coat suits that will be
shown, so the cables say, will be half
| fur and half cloth. Entire short coats
of fur bound around the hips In the
new way will be offered with knife
plated or box-plaited skirts of cloth
| or velvet.
C.,~-piece gowns VIII have old-fash-
ionea dolmnns Of fur fitted across the
from: by broad straps that wrap
arout1 the waist.
Capss of fur lined with velvet or
satin win have deep waistcoats In
'front.' that hold them securely to the