Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1919 — LONGER AND WIDER SKIRTS [ARTICLE]

LONGER AND WIDER SKIRTS

Conservative Styles Are Predicted by the Fashion Art Leaflue at Chicago Convention. ■ .i •» , —Feminine styles the coming fall are to be much different from those now Skirts will be longer—much wider — more conservative. And in this connection there is a war just starting —a war by American women to make the style more conservative. This was the news coming from within the Fashion Art league, in convention recently in Chicago. The doughboy is at the bottom of the whole thing. In France the Parisenne beauties wear extreme styles. When the doughboy struck that country he was dazzled. Styles became more and. home he was full of new ideas of styles, but the American girls rebelled —they went on a fashion strike, demanding new stales., The correct skirt length, according to Madame- AllA‘.Ripley 4 president of the ’ league, should be six to eight inches above the ground. Of course, the width will be built around the person, but generosity will be plentiful among the designers, it was pointed out. Forty-seven inches was agreed on as the average tvidth fof'the slender person.