Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — SEASON’S STYLES BY A MAN [ARTICLE]

SEASON’S STYLES BY A MAN

No “Wiring or Hoops, but Short, Full Skirts Are Displayed for Approval. It was a man’s collection of models I went to see this week, and undoubtedly he knows how to dress women. The exaggerated hips were not to be found; the bones, the flounces, the stiffness with which some models are being spoiled were not there; but everywhere you saw short, full skirts, with hips that showed a variety of drapings, gatherings, pocketings and plaitings and none of them was outrageous. The tailor-made' had short basques and full skirts, with collars of different kinds, some lying flat, some standing up, some of the Henri II pattern, some of the Louis XIII. There were boleros with loose flowing backs, there were “dolmans” of 1860, loose floating things which came to the knees and which needed the supple grace of a young and beautiful woman to make them possible. —From a Paris Letter to the London Times.