The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-23
Fashion Letter
Written for The
Topeka State journal
BY
MARGARET ROBE

Hip, hip, array
Yourself so gay
For you're again TO have full sway.
And be released from every stay
Hip, hip, array
New York, Aug. 23.-Fashion's CEN
sorship has been removed from hipsi
Once more the fashionable glass of the
hour will reflect the hour-giass figure.
Not exactly the full hour-glass of pre-
chemise frock days but at least haH
hour-glass. Curves both concave and
convex where they should be accord
ing to nature will once again be ac-
cording tosfashion also.
To look as nearly like q pencil as
possible will no longer be the acme or
feminine hearts desire.
We have been cut on the straight and
narrow so long that it is going to be
some job to get back into our softly
feminine mid-Victorian curves again
but it is always much easier to let out
| than to take in provided the material
is there.
Now that arms are allowed at large
untrammeled by restricting sleeves and
short skirts have emancipated our un-
der-trimmings it seems only fair and
just that our long stayed hips should
| be given the freedom of the sees.
| AS forerunners of the hips return
the side ruffles. panniers, puffs and
draperieS on the new fall skirts are
DuL rev OF the lnldlHDl0 signs 10
show which way the new fall figure
tends to curve.
Increased fulIness in the skirts as
well makes for a fuller silhouette and
| increased brevity proves the long and
short of it is that Paris is winner
in the little game OF skirts, that has
| been waged all season between the
Yankee and the Gallo modistes.
| Naturally, hip curves mean also
bust curves. and regular indented
waist again and the tight fitted bodice
is fitting complement OF the puffed
and panniered skirt for the re-en-
| trance of this long outlawed outline.
Such radical change in figures
means. of course. a radical change in
corsets. Those weird high busted.
| short-hipped and wasp wasted affairs
| of a quarter of a century ago have,
we hope, gone the way OF the Dodo
bird. Still. we must needs now pull
in our laces a bit snugger about our
| equators and tho the corsets will still
show long hips. the absence of bones
will give, the necessary freedom. The
low bust lire will also hold its own
for that pouter pigeon effect OF the
high busted corset is not down among
the rules and regulations for the new
fall figure.
Really, the only striking changes in
the corset models therefore will be a
DAl more curve III ~ the WAIST anu a
scarcity of bone that bind about the
hips
The curving new panniered period
frocks with their bouyant side puffs
and snug little bodices are really much
more becoming to the average plump
female figure than the long straight
line effects whose devoted slaves we
have been for so many seasons past
The straight chemise frock waS-really
artistically successful only on those
svelte young creatures of fiat chested
boyish lines. and how rare indeed IL
such a one among our bonbon ice
cream soda devouring, luxury loving
limousine lassies OF 1919.
Farewell, ye outgoing straight lines;
welcome. ye incoming curves. The
double-chinned. amply hipped sister.
hood greet you and now once more
that poetic little phrase get on to hei
curves will have some meaning.