SKIRTS SLIT TO HIPS.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 August 1919, Page 7

SKIRTS SLIT TO HIPS.

PARIS GOES LIMIT” ‘IN FASHIONS. _Thc dominant note in dress in Paris is becoming more and more its scantiness (Says the Weekly Dispatch correspondent_.—) Short skirts, short sleeves, low-cut bodices, reduce a dress to a negligible quantity as far as material is concerned.

A woman, no matter what her agei or station or figure, is offered modelsl for outdoor wear which would make‘ a ballet dancer blush. To slit a narrow skirt to the hip on both sides, to lower the open neck of a bodice to the waist, to forget the back altogether in an evening dress, is neither becoming nor amusing. Yet these fashions, pushed to the extreme limit, are to be seen. ‘ On the boulevards, you seewomen over 40 in skirts so short and so tight as to look ridiculous. At the races you see women in white satin decolctte nearly to the waist behind, and at the theatre women in.the audience ‘are less clothed -than -those of the

stage. Their bodiceg are reduced to deep waist belts with no shoulder straps, and the skirts are slit and slashed from hip to ankle in a series of flow-ing-panels over an underdrcss of something very diaphanous.