Question: Though many girls still wear their skirts very, very short, novelty has lately required increasing their length, not their brevity--and many new long skirts are resembling South Sea wraparounds, often gauzy, to suggest more exotic freedoms, newer ways for longer skirts to seduce.
The wraparounds are very elegant and decent.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: They'd be done in no time.
They would not be finished for a long time.

Answer: no

Question: oh that's kind of neat
That new design is kind of neat.

Answer:
it is not possible to tell