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 These belong to the younger slender type of figure.

It takes the slim young girl to wear gracefully the medium or narrow skirt with an abundance of fullness at the top, as the skirt in Fig. 1.

As the figure develops you will find a skirt with less fullness in the front and a circular swing to the cut more becoming. The skirt in Fig. 2 would look stylish on a woman of average figure.

If you are stout, plan gores in your skirt. Let me say right off that they are not old fashioned. Gores are the very thing that will give