Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-13
Of Interest to Women

The new silk jersey woven in com bination with a thread of silver, is really very pretty. In combination with black satin, it is charming. The tunic dress is in high command of the field of fashion lt holds sway in ey- cry material It hangs rather full, but the skirt under it is the shortest and scantest ever known. h width these underskirts measure from thirty inches to one yard. This excessive narrow hem forces the excessive short ness in order to walk at all. To step up on the street car unless hObble skirt cars are made as they were a few years ago, it is necessary to pull the skirt above the knees. The leg IS more than ever in view but every one wears silk stockings in spite of the war.
 Though the skirts are so scant that they are not worth considering more than usual character is attached to the coat. Nearly all the cloth reserved for a costume is devoted to the coat. sleeves, very tight, cover the arm. The They are thTee-quarter long, plain coat as conspicuous for the amount of ma terial in it as the skirt is for the lack of it. Whether of cloth, fur, or wooden limitations of fur, the collar is but toned high above the ears, it covers the chin; the head may sink into it to the eyes. It is so wide that when released from the buttons falls flat over the shoulders. Some coats can be turned back into shawl revers from a Russian blouse that served as a waistcoat and then it-was the collar Of this that wrinkled high to the ears.
 Smart new coats with skirts attach ed are very popular. One called "Na- poleon" coat is certain to be the go. It is quite like the coats we have seen in the pictures of the great general.
 The most beautiful evening dresses are shown, lovely materials, rich satins, plain and brocaded and embroi- dered with metal flowers and colored brocade Overwrought with gold and silver. These dresses are short and very scant, under slender trains. Rich ness of color is shown in them as well as of material.
 
 and other garments are made of vel vet and rough finished and smooth woolen cloths. And all are lined with rich furs. It is certain that good fur, not the cheap common fur that one so often sees, will be in great demand in spite of the high price of it.
 Several of the more fashionable dressmakers have gone in for a good deal of color in the selections made from the new materials But black satin leads everything else among the combinations. A fad has come for simply made dresses of black satin and of black velvet with becoming neck accessories and sash.
 Three-quarter length coats were pop ilsr at the first of season and the ma jority of the collars are made of the same material as the coat However. number are shown with fur-face col lars and much fur trimming Princi- palIy castor fur on materials of the same color. White ermine with the black tails is ornamental o9 dark blue. and on black, and is used in big col lars and the facing of cuffs. Then. too, there is dyed ermine fur on some of the garments The little tails are dyed a deeper shade than the fur it. self, which is sometimes a light red dish brown, and it trims garments nearly the same shade. Considerable seal fur is noticed in wide borders on coats and in enc instance the whole front of a coat from belt line to hem was covered with seal fur. A large square collar finished the neck and there were seal cuffs.
 Evening Dress
 After all it is not the evening gown as of old, for the dinner gown has taken it's place in the history of fash ion, for the duration of the war. Even ing dress as such was put. under the government ban last winter. but it is still regulated by ones own idea of the eternal fitness of things. What might be absolutely proper for one woman to wear would be quite inappropriate for another. The whole question there fore resolves itself into matter of taste. But one must consider the af- flictions of others in these days of war. But one must also do her bit to enliven a too-depressing effect of tragedy by wearing pretty things.
 The dinner dress has sleeves and Q yelled decolletage. and may be worn on formal occasions of afternoon and evening. It seldom has a train. all though there are some dresses that have a broad black sash looped up for