The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-20
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 DIGEST
(By Margaret MasOn.D y you do not have a fit,

l pray you do not have a fit,
 Dame Fashion will not stand for it. For anything that fits my dear
 Will simply not be done this year.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 2O-The Bi-An- nual Fashions Shows are now upon us and languid, languishing models are undulating a million dollars worth of furs and metallic embroidery and brocades all over the smartest shops.
 All the worthwhile gowns are there, they DOucet everyone will wear. Our old friend Pioret has a pair, of stunning one with Chinese air, and Lanyin, Chalot. Premet too and Pa quin also show a few.
 Since the Chinese tendency is so pronounced in most all of the import ed models, the setting for the dis play of the gowns is all Chinked and lacquered and gilded and Chinese Gods are rigged up. The models all glide around among the carved ivory and lockwood and Chinese porcelain as much at home as if they had never been outside the Great Wall of China. l Of course a few of the models are allowed to sit on the Russian steppes and look like Olga of the Volga in | fur trimmed peasant blouses smoth- cred in fur and hectic worsted em- l hvnf but sp hn g1F tlnr. ttky between the lines of the loose Rus sian blouses and the loose Chinese sGoat, the brilliant embroideries and those of Russia, and the lavish use of fur on both make it a rather pug zling proposition unless you are a connoiseur on Chinese and Russian art or at least of Russian and Chinese tea to tell one from the other.
 After taking an oblique look and getting a Chinese slant on those diff ferent showings of imported models so rich in materials, reputation and price, my advice to the women who cherishes the wild ambition of load. ing the mode back home is to wait until she gets there. Then let her hire the village seamstress and have that parsonage fit all her gowns on some one with a figure the exact antithesis of her own. When she dons them everybody will be willing to aI- most swear she is wearing a Premet or Doucet model of the very latest | For the main characteristic of all the new models is their non.fitting styles and the impression that they are built to go on totally different f. gures from the ones they adorn. Necks are hacked out straight across from shoulder to shoulder or in loose ovals that pull hither and yon. sleeves are loose and flowing wide, and the waists if one may call them such, are guar anteed not to touch the human form at any given point or curve from the shoulder to the hip. Some of the skirts are caught up at unexpected and awkward angles and indicate that If they hang evenly for any space around the hem they are miserable and failure indeed.
 On the evening models, where drap- cries are the piece de resistance as 'twere the way the gorgeous lengths of metallic and velvet or silken bro cades are draped on the foundations of lace or gold or silver gauge, would cause the window dresser of the white front Dry Goods Emporium back in the home town to hide his head in shame.
 | They give the non-elect the disturb ing impression that the designer had stood on the near side of the atolier and thrown the drape across the room to the lace swathed form on the other side, and then hied himself franti- cally to pin the wanton stuff ere it happened to light.
 The whole idea of the season seems to be striving after the sketchy inn presslonlstic effect, or as photogra- phers say, one of those artistic blur red portraits that make everyone mystifying beautiful because they are so out of detail--we must have a fuz- zy outline.
 No doubt the super-abundance of worsted embroidery that is used la vishly on every material hand. even on lustrous chiffon velour will aid in the fuzziness.
 If you can't just manage to be fuz- zy, ill-fittai and glittory with silver threads among the gold, or a bushel -l be2ds all on at the same time, 1 your gartOrial success for 191l191S