Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-10-05

New York.-It Is difficult to talk OF
economy and conservation in respect
to a brand-new fashion that Is hurled
at us out of the blue. Yet the COM
bination is not only possible but often
times satisfying.
What is called the new skirt was
advanced last December In America
by American designers. and 1t had
been exploited here for house gowns
six months before, so 1t Is not new.
recites fashion correspondent. IL
might be called a purely American de-
sign, although the house that exploited
1t for the evening is under the strong
est French influence. However, 1t was
an independent action and nad moth
ing to do with inspiration from Paris.
The second American house that
started the long skirt for the street
acted In an independent manner. This
skirt was not taken up, although It
was constantly worn by the woman
who designed 1t. We are rather slow
to catch on to new fashion, but when
we do like 1t we oyerdo it. Therefore
II Is likely that the long skirt will be-
come an accepted thing, In mass, be-
fore Thanksgiving. This prophecy
may be wrong. II is no time to fore
cast anything In any quarter Of life,
But the propaganda for the long skirt
Is sinking deeply into the hearts of
women and spreading Itself far over
the continent,
Mind You, these skirts are not ac-
cording to the lines that we have worn.
Sometimes they are straight, but often
they are slightly draped upward at the
back, and there Is growing tendency
to make skirt, exceedingly narrow
and sweeping the instep. and then a
draped tunic. which is quick re-
minGer Of the pullbaek skirt Of other
days.
So, you see, the designers are kind
to us after all. They provide a new
skirt and a new silhouette, but they
do n t compel you to buy new gown.
She who has money and little leisure
will purchase the new garment; she
viii find It possible to arrange the new
idea through the combination Of an
old frock draped into a tunic and
new skirt narrowly cut at the hem.
Conservative women are delighted.
They abhor the short skirt, which,
through our usual extravaganza in
OVERRIDING things. has resolved itself
into Scottish kits,
Facing the New Season.
August Ia serene or stormy MONTH
as YOU look ut 1t. You may determine
to wear whatever" clothes, faded and
shabby, until the first frost demands
warm frock; but II you do this you
are not making the best Of things. You
will find that all about you women are
extraordinarily keen about their APP
pearance today. Those who were
sloppy have become careful; those
WHO WeFE 6liubby navy bINVhhC Sih"t :
those who were unstyllsh have pulled
themselves into the picture of the
hour.
Clothes have undergone the same
transformation as everything else In
America. Economy and conservation
: are the keynote Of dressing, but only
the very Indifferent or the overbur-
dened and morbid woman is careless
OF her appearance.
The word morale" has become the
foundation stone of this war, and
women, who are leenly emotional
hold on to 1t as to 4 life rope. They
must not be morbid and they must
not be shabby. Optimism must shine
from their faces and their clothes
This Is a part of their burden. and
the mass of women have risen to 1t
MS women can be depended upon t.
do In any national emergency.
capes Attract the Popular Fancy.
There is small hope for top coat
these days. Its career was abruptly
ended when capes became the fashion