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Paris (Special)-There is a new tomboy fashion that stems straight from the antics of the B Apple. It is the mode of the

skirt dress

Now don't tell me that all dresses are composed of two parts

blouse and skirt and that it's no news to mention the fact. This is news because the dress that is the fash- jon makes no hullabaloo about its waist and skirt, but is a slick item of cloth scampering from the neck to just below the knees in a non- stop movement. On the other hand, the waist-and-skirt dress is just that a waist which is a separate personality, united to a skirt which is another character a belt or sash keeps them from making only one

SASH CLOSELY

These dresses are comfortable as to the

ITTED

bloused and

top storey, and mostly roomy and animated as to skirt. So the waistline, with its sash or belt, is the only closely fit- ted place

The two-parts are at odds as to material. The blouse is one fabric and the skirt another, e'en though they be sewed securely together at the waistline.

The waist-and-skirt dress is built. primarily to allow for high step- ping, and is the 1938 edition of the shirtmaker frock.

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1938.

the wa

enchanting dresses I

have seen have bolero blouses, sashes below the bolero and soft pleated or gathered skirts. No. 2 is this version. This model has a bolero blouse made of silk crepe, printed with bright flowers in a small pattern on a white ground. It has a round; innocent collar and short, gathered-top sleeves.

PLEATED SATIN SKIRT

The blouse ends wall above ormal. A wide red silk crepe sash takes over, twines around the

istline and ties in a big knot. It ggests & French, workman's sash. The skist, made of dark blue chiffon and gathered under the sash, is quite full though it hangs rather straight.

No. 1 is the daytime wa skirt dress. It has a simple shirt- maker blouse of white foulard dot- ted with black polka dots. The col lar and cuffs are softened by tucks, which are released to give frilly edges. The skirt, made of pleated black, satin, is wide and ready for action. A hefty black patent lea ther belt cinches the waistline.

over the front brim.

While elsewhere in Spring fash- shirts which Spanish bullfighters

A very big white straw hat goes ions waistlines are ignored, rele- wear, without the pleats. These These dresses come for sports, gated to new lows, or pushed up blouses also resemble a Cuban with No. 1. A black lacy veil falls for general daytime wear and for under the bosom, in the shirtwaist dancer's shirt evening, too. Dinner dresses in this and-skirt dress the waistline is mood combine such materials as 2 right at normal and very blatant silk crepe blouse with a chiffon about it. Because big belts and skirt, or a chiffon blouse with a bold sashes put this line into the spot printed silk skirt. The daytime mem- light. bers unite satin with crepe, and

Simple blouses with action pleats at the back and patch pockets are used for lots of the new shirt maker frocks.

No. 3, very peasant, is designed - to wear dancing and cavorting in It has a brick red the evening- blouse with bulky sleeves ending in A gray and black taffeta cuffs, tiny grey

collar rises above the ity unite jersey with shantung and Three types of blouses come in

Peasant blouses-from different round neck. The skirt is a balloon cotton, or linen with wool In each with this newest shirtmaker dress. countries are the third breed, The type made of set-together squares dress the blouse is one material and Many of them have gathered, soft. Rumanian peasant blouse of sheer of grey taffeta, with black pipings the skirt another.

-waists considerably like the soft white lawn, but stripped of em- beween the squares.

wool with silk. The sports fratern-

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