Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1919 — LONGER AND WIDER SKIRTS [ARTICLE]

LONGER AND WIDER SKIRTS

Conservative Styles Are Predicted by the Fashion Art, League at Chi? cago Convention. ■,~j , - ‘ to be much different from those now prevailing —much different. 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 styles. The correct skirt length, according to Madame Alla Ripley, president of the league, should be six to eight inches above the ground. Of course, the wndth will be built around the person, but generosity will be plentiful among the designers, it was pointed out. Forty-seven inches w*as agreed on as the average width for the slender person.