The Alaska daily empire., 1919-08-01

Up tO lNc lua. ICW uuyS "Ol4-C+ have been content to plan puffy frilly things, "wash" dresses and oth CT apparel of gosseamer thickness n keeping with the season. But as the temperature has cropt up the feminine eye has turned far into the future, trying to fathom tho depths of hems and designers schemes.
 Maybe it's because they are the maybe it's because they govern, ac cording to their width, the number of things she can do in a day, but l woman's skirts are always her first concern. Ask any woman and she will say the length of her nose 1oesn't matter if her skirt is the proper altitude from the ground
 Are the fall skirts going to re main long and tight or are they go ing to shrink. up and flare out as they do in Paris where they are short enough to make socks effec- tive? This is the question which is worrying women. Half the wrinkles n the brows of the pretty ladies who scamper along these days are not 0c- casioned by the tightness of the skirts they wear-as the uncompre hending masculine observer might opine-but by the ampleness of the skirts in their minds eye, the skirts )f the autumn mode Any skirt can be made narrower to conform with the demands of the fashion, but even an artist cannot make two breadths grow where one hung before
 From the lips of the society woman who is considered one of the fashion authorities an oracle who receives Paris bulletins and New York decrees weekly besides being in close touch with department store buyers, some words of solace for the fair wearer of narrow skirts. Fall and winter skirts will not be appreciably shorter, although they will be very slightly wider. The woman in a suit bought last May will not need to fear look ng like a splinter e5ide the woman n an autumn costume.
 The new fall suits which have been received indicates that skirts will be worn six and seven or sometimes five inches from the floor.
 The slim silhouette will prevail. Which means that American design CTS will have nought of Paris dis t,t TlA Af designers to pull in the waist and flare out the skirts are indiacted only Tn slight degree-in the smart little sweaters, usually hand-kni.ted, which are made in pale tints with very tight waists and ripping peplums. These have been shown on models in department stores the last three weeks.
 And here is the explanation, by a woman who knows, of why the Paris women have persisted in wearing what seems to the American the very ungraceful extremely short tight skirt. During the war government rulings provided that just two and tHTee-lourtnS yaruS Ol HldteTldi Ol one kind might be sold for a dress and no more could be used by the dress. makers. Consequently the Parisian had to figure on short lengths some where and finally used them in her skirt or the abbreviated tight sleeve which did not even reach to the ell. bow shown in French fashion maga zines.
 Fashion authorities hold that even had the Parisian silhouette been adopted in the east it would not have found favor in the west as the west ern women are the more athletic, taller type who prefer the loose waistline and long. slim lines.
 Suits worn this fall and winter. as shown by advance models. will Lave a decidedly tailored tendency. The boxy coats which have heen much used since last spring have will continue in popularity being either very short as they a,e on the summer models or knee length. Suits