Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — Authority for Wide Skirts. [ARTICLE]

Authority for Wide Skirts.

Those who are wearing wide skirts get their authority from Jeanne Lanvin, one of the first designers of the world. She is the only dressmaker who insisted upon the five-yard skirt, and she held to her conviction by turning out dozens of gathered or plaited skirts that hang lipiply to the figure, but are not in keeping with the narrow silhouette of the day. She is not unpatriotic. She did not use an undue amount of wool in these skirts. She had a few dozen other materials to handle, and she is quite right in insisting that all her organdie skirts should be five yards at the hem. Nothing is more ungainly than a hobble skirt of muslin or transparent fabric, but it is believed that the Americans in mass will not accept Lanvin’s skirts, as they prefer the redlngote ; over a slim foundation when they ! wish fullness.