Evening star., 1925-08-02
BY MARY MARSHALL.

TITLE flares and big flareS.
flares on both sides and flares
on one side, back flares and
H. front flares, flares that really
are flares and flares that sim
ply look like flares, flares like a funnel
and flares like an inverted morning
glory, bell shaped flares and flares
that are shaped like telephone re-
ceiver flares that suggest the spread
ing tail feathers of a bird and flares
that spread out gracefully like the
fins of a fiSh-and if there are any
other sorts of flares add those to the
list of flares that fashion is going to
make use of in the new clothes for
late Summer and Autumn.
Verify the day OF the string bean
and pencil silhouette has passed, and
though it is still fashionable to be
straight And slender, almost all the
new frocks and wraps will show some
sort of tendency to spread out toward
the hem. For some months now the
smart silhouette, as some one terSely
put II the other day, has been that Of
a woman with her back toward the
breeze. Everything is drawn tight
at the back and any fullness that there
is to spare is seemingly blown" to
the front. And now we have recently
heard quite bit about back flares and
back fullness. Some assure us that
this new back fullness is going to be
a characteristic of the new clothes,
and others are quite as emphatic in
saying that back fullness will not be
50 important at least for the time
being, but that the smart silhouette
will continue to be that of a woman
standing with her back to the breeze.
The truth is that in the new fash-'
ions there will be room for back flares
and front flares and that the really
only important thing is that there
must be flare Of some sort.
The woman who dances welcomes
the f1ared evening frocks. The only
reason that skirts so tight as
those that have been worn were en-
dured as long as they were is their
shortness. But when skirts are both
faring and short, as those of the new
dance frocks all seem to be, then we
are as unconstricted IN the dance as
ballet dancer. To be sure there are
some longer skirted evening frocks,
but these are of the period sort, with
straight, close-ftting bodices and
skirts that balloon outward from the
hips-frockS usually suitable and be-
coming only to the younger woman.
These demure, full-skirted frocks.
sometimes of taffeta and sometimes
of tulle or lace, have been displayed
by dressmakers for many, many sea-
sons now. and usually they have not
received d very warm welcome. But
they really are very charming when
worn by bridesmaids at a wedding or
by some lovely debutante of willowy
proportions.
ONE of the cleverest flares of the
~ season is the side fare that ap-
pears in some of the new evening
frocks Sometimes IL is formed by a
f1ounce or frill that is added to a
close fitting sheath of a frock. some
how suggesting the clothes of the 1880
period, only with them the flare ex-
tended into a hustle at the back,
whereas in this case the fare goes
right up at one side. giving an effect
that seems to delight French dress
makers at the present time.
In this matter of flares the ques
ton Of the fabric must be considered
carefully. A gathered flare would
hardly do with figured material. With
the large figured materials godets are
often satisfactory. Lace forms in
teresting flares, sometimes extending
all around the skirt and sometimes
merely in interesting little wings at
the side of the skirt. Pleated crepe
de chine or georgette forms interest
ing little panels, hanging from the
hips of a new dance frock, that sug-
gest the fins of an interesting fish.
With the f1ared skirt that continues
usually Just as short as ever we will
be living in an age when women have
shown more of their legs than has
ever been the case since civilized