The Connecticut labor press., 1920-09-04

luerous. A rrencn woman regarus primarily the lines of her own figure, the shape of her own head and the setup of her own personality. A cer- tain line suits her figure. She looks upon that as fixed point and around it revo1ves the building of the clothes of a new season. She does not see styles as things in themselves, she sees them only as possible adaptations to herself. And if she finds new thing that fits in with her ideas of herself she bites at-it like a trout at fly. She never buys gown solely be- cause it is beautiful. She never al- lows herself to stay out of the picture long enough to consider the dress as a separate entity, and, what is more, she accomplishes her end with clever ness and thought and usually with great artistic success.
 importance of the Lines.
 The general lines are the first to be considered and all signs point to cer- tain changes in silhouette. For in- stance. the fullness over the hips is gradually declining. That seems to be a certainty, for all the reports from the English and French races say that the lines of the silhouette are straight and uncompromising. They say the chemise dress is still in favor. For that fact many will give thanks, fer this dress has come to be greatly loved. So much can be done with it in the way of variations. It is so vast Iy becoming to many figures and its possibilities of adaptation are too won derful to be lightly cast aside. Proof of its desirability lies in the fact that 1t returns repeatedly to the fore ranks of fashion.
 There is a heated discussion going on about the ever-variable length of sleeves and skirts. Last year at this time our skirts in America very>near- Iy touched the ground and clung about the feet. Now they have sprung sky high, and everybody-even those who swore they could not do it-is pleased as can be over the change. Will the short skirt stay with us for another season? French and English society women predicted that skirts would
 
 hey do not seem to be one whit long CT. All the photographs which are be- ing sent from the races show skirts that well nigh touch the knees by way of length, for the French always have worn them much shorter than ours. American women, too, have become used to the more abbreviated skirt lengths, and common sense would lead one to suppose, that the skirt would remain short for the coming season. However, the only fault in that heavy reasoning is that common sense does not always rule the ways of fashion, and for the actual decision one will have to wait until the fall styles have actually been created and imported. All that can be said is that skirts are still short. Not a>long one has been seen upon the landscape.
 The Sleeve Lengths.
 Sleeve lengths are almost as impor- tant In fact, just at this season they are really more important, for sleeves have taken on such a tendency to f1uc- tuate that one scarcely knows what is right and what is wrong about them. Anything goes as long as it is well done, and whether the long sleeve or the short sleeve or the three-quarter sleeve is the most fashionable is a fact that is hard to establish. Many of the latest Partisan reports tell of sleeves which are longer than they have been, but then, Parisian sleeves have always been extremely short shorter, in fact, than most of ours. They are showing and wearing sleeves of three-quarter length and sleeves that end below the elbow, having there a wide and flowing opening.
 Thnra are some very chic new