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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1926)
S " i Pc&?l7to;8 A ND . V I G O R O U S ' V- ft ' f CLEAN -SDCHCYEAR, JOIN SALEM'S ',1 i ' : ..; V-.:'--:-f.-.-,' . .; . '-. , SAtEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21. 1926 U5 ABIT IS HABIT says Mark Twain, "and not to be flung out of the win dow bv anv man, but coaxed down- stairs a step at a time. So is style habit, and riot to be thrown in the discard by any cdtitdurier or designer, but coaxed to change, a little at a time. Witness the slow meta morphosis of the straight "chemise dress of a few seasons ago tKe introduction of pleats paved the way' for a slight flare of the silhouette lattKe hem-lirie. And the draped sash of last ''spring opened the Way for a rad ical break away from the straight line this autumn we have THE BLOUSED WAISTLINE. iately discarded it takes a season or two to finish the matter up. Flares and godets have been in fbr two, or three seasons now their orbit is now on the descendent track. Really we may consider every possible style factor as traveling in a cycle it disappears only to appear again. It may come back again in five or six .years; or it may take fifty to sixty years to come back, and then be slightly changed but it eventually arrives. Was it six years ago or seven years ago that the dolman sleeved coat was so popular? It matters riot, the important point is that IT HAS COME BACK. "Ah, but I won't giveup my straightline dress, cries every woman. , "It is too com fortable and becoming. There is no ne cessity for that yet," Teplies the Paris de signer. Of course we never can tell what Will happen next 'season. Arid that is the . way it goes the introduction of something new does not mean that the old is immed- Those are the two really irnportant changes for this season he bloused waistline iri dress and coat, and the dolman or wrappy, coat. There are other changes, of cbiirse, but none so radical as these, Very "little, if any, difference is noted in the length of the skirt. It reiriams, uriort ; 'all tKpse'oigig enough and slender .enough to carry it well, from fourteen to sixteen. Opening FALL OF Wednesday;: Sieptember 22, --7:30 ip Sponsored by tKe Salem-Ad Club - i PBtCE FIVE CENTS : ? it 1 P 1 4 1-5 fi 13 4; i! L 3 h y STYLES