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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1916)
The Omaha Sunday Be eMa (QAZINE FA6E t 1 X. - 3 Wider Still Spiread Diress, anndl Moire LADY DUFF-GORDON, the famous "LuciV of London, and foremost creator of fashions in the world. Write each week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all that is newest and best in styles for weD-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon's Paris establishment brings her into close touch with that centre of fashion. By Lady Duff-Gordon ("LUCiyE") rERE yon see an example of my sew Sorlnc models. Perhaps yon win exclaim. "Whr. the are wider than ever!" And so they are. Thle season the wide skirt will reach lta apotheosis. And in some form or other, at least. I am sure that it will not leave us again. The big woman and the woman who is and can't help being stout will never let them go- .Because, curiously enough, there is noth lng that the big woman and the stout woman look better In than one of these wide akirte. And let me put one misunderstanding at rest Immediately. I have heard people aay, "Why, I wouldn't dare to wear a skirt like this out on the street!" My dear lady, who ever you are, these akirta are not Intended for street wear. If they were you would have (o widen your Fifth avenue Imme diately. The effecfs are solely for evening dress. Aa a matter of fact, the atreet clothes, the walking dress and so on are going to be "skimpier" and even more rev elant than ever. I have said that the wide eklrt in some manifestation or other will not disappear because the big woman and the stout woman , will not let it Let us first take up the ease of the big woman I mean the wonderful creature who -might have stepped from aome old Norse saga. She Is so big and strong and eye-fllllng that In average dress she seems awkward and out of place. We think regretfully of how eplendid she would look in the old full Greek draperies of the heroic age or the mail and armor of. another heroic age. . in the same style of clothes that charming on her smaller staters she reminds us Irresistibly f a giant in a ' boy's knickerbockers. She la of he-' role mold, and there Is no reason why an snouJd not wear a dress which would Interpret all her large grace and -beauty. "Slmllia aimltlbus cutantur" like cures like. Therefore we would expect to see such a woman fit In at, once with the life around us If she were draped In clothes that would have all her won. derful length of line and fullness. And this la Just what happens when she dresses this way. Not only that, but she becomes actually a goddess! Dig nity and largeness of frame are per fectly interpreted by the dignity and largeness of line of her clothes. She does not appear "tremendous"; she Is only beautifully Impressive. It is the aame way with the too stout woman. The too large hips are In stantly thrown Into a proper perspec tive by the wide and billowing skirts. They seem slender In comparison. And at the same time the too full bosom, seems no larger than it ought to be. What has really happened Is that, as the architects would say, she has dressed to scale. In the smaller picture at the bottom we see an effect like this, which you can study at your leisure. The larger pictures show two views of one of the new Spring dresses, which happened, tn this case, to have been created not for the Junoesque but for the smaller woman. Only a little adaptation, how. ever. Is necessary to make it harmo nious to the heroic figure. The largest picture on this page shows one of the newest Spring skirts. It Is, as you see, more "bouffant," wider, than ever. Itrf .effect Is, never theless,, charming, I think. It Is of white tulle over a pink silk under dress. Bunches of hand-made roses decorate It. Beside It is a view of the same dress from another angle. Please look now at the remaining picture. Here you can see exactly what I mean about the reduction of the hips through the line of the skirt There is real dignity here, and yet there- Is also given an effect of grace and lightness. This dress Is of white embroidered filet over black satin. The garniture of red roses is ar ranged In long lines. tK Peitfticosits of tike Eweiinig CKmigmg Aire tke Street Gownns Says Ladly DlrlFGoraoini aVlrta r i- . if i 'i.. r ' - i I - - - I v y ' ; , . - 1 t- , ?. ' ! '.V? : f-;.: -vv i?'T-' ' br"r-.-.j " ; ,4, , - , - i' , ' 4 . '- ' X k ' . ' .. ' c t ' r " j . : '''' fv ..... I ; . - , ,' l ' - ' , I :. :. J 1 i "f: m .t,s'-..-..".''f . . ' . . . . . e .' ff.'y: .i-.i i i ...f .- , ! - i . n ; v- , .. . (? ., ... ..,.....,...!...('...., . , .1 ... . . i , ,........... k J t - ' i ' . v ' J . , , ' ' ' ,i ; . v f - -v'.'';": i- ' - '- i 1 ' , ' -- s ' :.f,w.i.'( S. ... .... ' .-.. " i '"i - p . . ' :. ' . - . y .... ............ ... .. J . n " ' ' . I-' ' : H rT.." .'., .2 - , f , t , . . , ' f I 1 f t . , -r ... H . mm iii ii i' i iiiii ri in .11 ! v : 4 , i. . S ' " "" "" ' ' "" irl"""'" ir ill 1 rim Km n 11 i 11 ,t mM mAii timMiititmmhukiMMiumm, att t- i n - 1 larger, wider than ever. It is of white tulle over a pink silk '. . . j .- fj v ' . v.i rr1 ' under dreae. Hand-mede roeea embellith it. The emeller ' t ' sC-T I i X picture at the top gives another view of the eme dreee. ' .'" -" H ' 1 At the lower left ie a "stately" dress for either the Junoesque t r - ' , i v type of woman or the stout one. It ia of white embroidered I , , . " ' . "TV filet over black satin. . - ., ; 21 CL"""" "4"" $L& 1 sss . z2Z '" 1l I1PB J3 -iuliTO3 Jilt Mil !! 'HM'WJ