Evening star., 1925-02-22

TIME problem of designers and
dressmakers for Spring would
be a good deal easier II cur
i rent fashions were not so
generally liked. II women
sighed for something new, II they
longed for some drastic change, II
they found the clothes they were
wearing unbecoming, impractieable
and uncomfortable, then it would be
smooth sailing.
But we are all quite comfortable
and most of us quite satisfied with
our own appearance. We-meaning
most of us-Iike the straight, scant
line; we like short skirts; we like
slender hips, and we are not espe-
cially eager to cultivate an hour
glass waistline. We like clothes that
are light and compact, easy to slip
into and easy to wear. Yet, of course.
there is the Unsuitable desire for
something new.
Il We bid designers show US some
thing new and we throw a fit IL there
Is any real innovation. Changes must
be mere suggestions.
Changes will surely come; in fact,
very subtle changes are taking place,
but there would be much more radi-
cal changes-and incidentally more
news for the fashion reporter-if
women were not so generally salts
Ned with clothes as they are.
Skirts are shorter. That is not in
the nature of a real change, because
they have been decidedly abbreviated
all Wtnter-much more so in France
than in this country The skirt that
looked just conservatively long last
Autumn will look positively dowdy
this Spring. The skirt that termi-
mates midway between ankle and
knee rides" up to the knee when
one is seated. but this is part of the
n1n 1...e L.
wing of it. To be sure, there is a
tendency for slightly more fullness
to the short skirt, so that this rid
ing" tendency will be in part rem
edied.
This fullness of the skirt, however,
seems to be little more apparent
than real In Paris 1T is said that
the skirts will be a little fuller at
the back. The straight silhouette
still rules, but there are pleats, pam
els, tunics, peplums, aprons and frills
that take away from the severity of
the effect and impart a bit of fulfil
ness. There is actually a little more
room at the back of the skirt often,
but the plain, scant, untrimmed back
seems to be the rule in almost all the
new things.
THOUGH not a novelty, kasha is
squarters, and if the trend of fashion
able events at smart European Winter
resorts and in the warm resorts in
our own southland can be taken as
prophetic then kasha will be a favor
lite everywhere for spring. 1t is espe-
cially smart in the so-called natural
tones, likewise in the pastel tints.
Tweeds, of course, will be favored for
sports wear Several of the corded
silks are holding favor and will be
used for the lightweight silk coats
almost always of black-that find
such general acceptance for Spring and
Summer in France.
French dressmakers have felt the
effect of the coming visit of the
Prince of Wales to Argentina, and 1t
! may be that by the time the royal
darling of the French fashionable
dressmakers returns from Latin
America we shall have something in
the way of Latin American influence
on fashion-whatever that may be-
Interesting enough the frocks that
have been sent out to the Argentine
by the hundreds, because of the ex-
pected visit of the prince have been
for The most part dainty frocks richly
embroidered and lavishly trimmed