The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-11-11
Paris Adopts
Longer Skirts
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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 to behold. Dressmakers
and designers had had a rest from
sleeves for some time, so they came
back to the problem with q zeal that
shows itself gloriously in the things
they have put before the public. And
the women who love to dress-tney,
too, come back to sleeves with enthu-
siasm, glorying 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 In
many different ways. There are heavy
trimmings on frail foundations and
there are wavy 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-brilliant sleeves of
flowing graceful lines attached to
frocks of neutral tone. Just as we ex-
pect to see brilliancy of color worked
into a belt or a girdle, so we are hav-
ing II this season flashing from the
sleeves 1t is 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 they
make suits over there they en-
ploy more or less trimming, making
them look as much like street dresses
as they do like tailored suits. They
call them taiileurs, but they bend
every effort to take any hardness OF
tailored look away from them.
The dresses among the Paris show
ings are Inclined, as class, to have
long waists, again presenting the har
mony of long lines. The French
dresses blouse over the hips at low
line, which, year ago, we would nave
believed impossible to wear. But theI
have done it and done it we'll and 1t II
really surprising how becoming I'M
longer waistline, not to mention
bullying waistline, can be. Even OF
the evening gowns the waistline is &C
centuated by thick and protrudlne
trimmings. One no longer makes
fetish of the fairy waistline, but ONT
adds on unfortunately with no though
for tininess just at that particula
place.
The evening gowns are draped AM
draped again, with one portion OF tn
drapery obliterating another portion
They look always as though the make
l. had reveled in the draping OF IN
fabrics and as though she had let ne
| whim carry her along as she pinne
| and shaped. There is no rule aDor
| where the drapery shall start or wher
] If shall finish-no pattern to go o.
but the material falls where 1t WI
!, and follows with its massed folds th
q lines of the figure for which 1t IS d
signed. Indeed, the best OF the ev'
ming gowns are entirely draped, sar
y trimming Of any sort and with Sc
e wages showing bravely wherever the
IL bappen to fall. The waistline on thes
. formal gowns are all long. The necf
s. are apt to be high at front. VIII
thew curve extremely low at bac
even unto the waistline, even VINE
~ that is low. The sleeves are general
" among the missing, there being eith'
a large, plainly finished armholes fro
" which the arms emerge or mo-
i. drapery about the armhole, where Il
N concentrated folds swing about alor