LINELESS LADY IS GOING OUT OF FASHION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 7

LINELESS LADY IS GOING OUT OF FASHION.

THE HOBBLE DOESN’T HOBBLE: AS MUCH AS IT DID.

MLLE. PARIS EVOLVES THE TAIL.

The lineless lady is going cut of fashion. That's the latest news from the French capital. That is seen in gowns shown in town, and every gorgeous costume paraded back, and forth by a living model told the story to New Yorkers

Even the hobble skirt doesn’t hobble as much as it did. It has extended itself a little, and in its newer form will not trip the wearer quite as impulsively as it did last spring. To replace the freakislmess of "the ultra-

hobble, however, Mile. Paris has evolved the tail.

The tail is merely loosened, and flaps and flutters behind' to the left. Lots of ones flaunted were of brocade, for that's one of the favored materials this season, but if one cannot afford a brocade eostume the tail may be made

of something ob*>, not quite so chic, perhaps, but still chic enough to answer. And it must be on the left. To put it on the right would be a solecism. Another feature of the new gowns is that while they are elegant, they are rather subclued. Bursts of color are to he distinctly outre. Instead, the modishly gowned will affect more quiet lines that cost just as much. All noted costumers were represented by models in the show, and all except one have recreated the waist lino. That's what leads phophetic ones to promise that before spring there will be real hips again. for the rest, everything must reach the ground : it may even aspire to the train, but the train must never be straight.