ding. She counsels elegant ladies to make sure of bringing out the notes of femininity in their clothes, on condition that they keep up an appearance of mod-esty and sobriety...

And that, upon my life, is a frank counsel, one that represents the spirit of the playful American woman and her plunging into the flood of life just as far as it pleases her!...

The Americans ask them-selves gloomily what the outcome of this revolution will be, and whether it will affect the currency of the new fashion and so become the cause of bankruptcy for a number of the great stores. But Mr. Dior, one of the designers of the new fashion and one of its defenders, assures us in the tone of a man sure of himself, saying: "The new fashion will inevitably spread. As for this heated revolution against it, it will die down as quickly as it flared up, and the waters will return to their courses. I assure the public that the women now so zealous against the new fashion will shortly become volun-teers in its front ranks, keeping its laws; woman will forget this revolution of hers, for elegance is the

first thing a woman aspires to, and for its sake she will sacrifice everything dear."

What, then, is the opinion of our ladies about this fashion? Will they accept it with all its faults, and fill the streets and the tram cars with long, full dresses with their puffed-out hips? Or will they stand in the ranks of the opponents, protesting violently against this fashion, which agrees in nothing with the simplic-ity of our country?

"The Woman's Voice" welcomes every opinion they may express on this subject.

We have published with this article two models of this new fashion, in which you will notice, dear reader, how the dress has lengthened to a little above the ankle, how the waist has narrowed and the sleeves widened; you will notice, too, its fullness and looseness.

Perhaps these two models, which reached us lately by airplane from New York, may be described as moder-ate, since the new fashion that stirred up this rev-olution in women's circles is marked, apart from its length, by fullness over the hips, after the manner it had in the last century.