The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-11-10
Paris Adopts
Longer Skirts

Sleeves, in fact. are the sensation OF
the season We hardly expected them
to be. We had looked to skirts to
provide the thrill Of change, but here
are the sleeves most beautiful, most
wonderful 10 behold Dressmakers
and designers had had n rest from
sleeves for some time, so they came
back to the problem with zeal that
shows itself gloriously in the things
they have put before the public And
the women who love to dress-they,
too, come back to sleeves with enthu-
siaSm, gloryng to show the graceful
sweep of their arms by the whirl OF
the chiffon trailing along, liking to
feel the lOoseness and wrappiness of
the extra folds about their arms.
Sleeves are trimmed and trimmed I'm
many different ways. There are heavy
trimmings on frall foundations and
there are wayy lines Of tulle applied to
heavier materials. There are sleeves
Of alternating stripes running cross
wise and those where the stripes run
lengthwise. But the most amusing
sleeves of all are those that are made
of materials quite contrasting to the
gowns themselves-bri brilliant sleeves of
flowing graceful lines attached to
trOcks of neutral tone. Just as we ex-
pcct to see brilliancy of color worked
into a belt or a girdle, so we are hav-
ing It this season flashing from the
sleeves. 1t is a new note and one that
is quite satisfyingly becoming.
Loose and Wrappy Coats.
Paris has a feeling for loose and
wrappy coats worn with dresses to
harmonic or to match exactly. This
fashion, she declares, is one that is so
really feminine that for beauty and
charm it can find no equal. When thew
make suits over there they en-
ploy more or less trimming, making
them look as much like street dresses
US they do like tailored suits. They
call them tailleurs, but they bend
every effort 20 take any hardness of
a tailored look away from them.
The dresses among the Paris show.
ings are Inclined, as a class, to have
long waists, again presenting the har-
mony of long lines. The French
dresses blouse over the hips at a low
line, which, a year ago, we would have
believed impossible to wear. But they
have done it and done 1t well and 1t Is
really surprising how becoming the
longer waistline, not to mention
bulging waistline, can be. Even on
the evening gowns the waistline IS ac-
Centuated by thick and prOtruding
trimmings. One no longer makes a
fetish of the fairy waistline, but one
adds on ntermnably with no thought
for tininess just at that particular
place.
The evening gowns are draped and
draped again, with one portion of the
drapery Obliterating another portion.
They look always as though the maker
had reveled in the draping of the
fabrics and as though she had let her
whim carry her along as she pinned
and shaped. There is no rule about
where the drapery shall start or where
it shall finish-no pattern to go by,
but the material falls where it will
and follows with its massed folds the
lines Of the figure for which it is de-
signed. Indeed, the best of the eve
ming gowns are entirely draped sans
trimming of any sort and with sell
wages showing bravely wherever they
happen to fall. The waistline on these
formal gowns are all long. The necks
are apt to be high at front, while
they curve extremely low at back,
even unto the waistline, even when
tnat is low. The sleeves are generally
among the missing, there being either
large, plainly finished armhOles from
which the arms emerge or more
drapery about the armhole, where the
concentrated folds swing about along
with the motion Of the arms.