Evening star., 1925-05-03
BY MARY MARSHALL.

~ UR ever-changing seasons
have surely been responsible
in part for our ever-varying
~ fashions. If Paris enjoyed
as even temperature as
BeSmuda, II London were as consist
emily frigid as La Upland or if New
Yofk were as persistently torrid as
Hasti, we should not expect TO find
these cities the source of so many
ne% heds and fs shions.
The clothes demands of the four
seasons as they succeed each other
Vary. What looks well and appears
bsdoming in Winter would never do
in Spring and Springs raiment must
be changed for the long days of Mid
surnmer- We could not go on wear
ing the same clothes until they were
quite worn out even If we wanted to-.
The climate would not permit US to.
AND in changing the weight and color
OF our clothes we have opportunity
TO change the style.
The task OF the dressmaker can
never grow monotonous. With every
THREE months he has different fabrics
TO deaf with. In early Spring there
We're light weight woolens, tweeds.
serges. reps and kashas Now as
Summer days approach he turns to
light chiffons and seorgette, the
batiste.
From the point OF view OF the
advocates of the wider. more faring
skirt. the warm season is coming at
the psychological moment. 1t is pos
sihle by careful manipulation to add
quite a bit of extra material in a
skirt that is made of a fabric as light
and plant as eeorgette or voile.
Skirts may be made fuller without
apparently detracting from their
straightness. What would have been
impossible with velvet. duvetyn,
hroCade, lame or any of the heavier
Winter materials becomes quite pos
sibIe with the sheerer fabrics of Sum
mer.
Meantime women are going to adopt
the fuller skirt almost unconsciously.
They are going to become used to it
before they really know they are
wearing it. And, it is hoped by many
by the time Autumn and Winter ar
rive they will have become so much
accustomed to it that they will not
reject it even when fashioned from
the heavier materials.
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OF course this new fuller skirt is
~ very short. That seems to BE-
important. If in group Of women
You want to be pointed out as one Of
the smartly dressed. then you really
must nave short skirts. You may look
distinguished, or even pretty. with a
longer skirt, but certainly not smart.
So much is this short skirtedness an
essential OF this Springs mode that
often all one need de with last sea-
sons thin frocks to make them look
quite up to date is to lop off five or
six inches from the skirt If there is
any sort of border to ii, then the lop-
ping had better be from the top,
otherwise all you need to do is to
take it off at the hem.
Another important change that has
come over the cut of our frocks within
12 months has to do with sleeves.
The sleeveless frock. save for evening,
is almost as extinct as the dodo. In
stead we have long sleeves that show
fullness above the wrist, and very
short sleeves. Often they are tight
little contrivances that hug the shoul-
ders for a few inches and then end
their brief careers.
Though high collars and highly
draped neck-scarfs have made some
headway in Paris, there is little
chance Of anything of that sort find
ing favor with American women for
warm weather. The neck line will
remain as comfortable as ever.
Lighter and brighter colors always
prevail in warm weather Among
furred and feathered animals the
tendency seems to be to don white
only as a Winter garb, but il always
has been difficult to persuade men
and women that white Is appropriate
for Winter. 1t is only in Summer
that white enjoys any popularity for
outer raiment.