Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — THEY’RE TO BE SHORTER, ACCORDING TO BUYERS. [ARTICLE]

THEY’RE TO BE SHORTER, ACCORDING TO BUYERS.

• Skirts will 'be shorter w tfcis fall, even if the pockets have to be moved north. Tighter or skinnier—much, much skinnier. The dress fabric buyers, meeting at New York, are one in saying it has to be done, for there isn’t going to be enough cloth to go round. If someone insists on eight-yard scenery, they say somebody else must stay home. And all this because: 1. The silkworms have joined the Bolsheviki. 2. Planters are growing watermelons, or something, instead of cotton. I 3. Wooly lambs are breaking alti-1 tude records. 4. He who toils is getting to be i an uncertain commodity. * But this only scratches the surface for it was flatly predicted by manufacturers that there will not be enough material for five years. Fur men, also at New York for the $1,000,000 auction, are less pessi-, mistic, fortunately. The fur mar- > ket is strong, they say, with everything from weasles to silver foxes in demand.