WOMEN: Waistline Extended

Fashion is a jade, as men well know. Her changeableness, as exemplified in women's styles, is mighty exasperating, but she usually succeeds in catching the male eye. Of late, with the return of corsets that made the female figure recognizable from any angle, Spectator Man has found little to jeer at, much to applaud. But by last week, Fashion's winsome mood seemed to be changing again, and men were bracing themselves for the usual series of nasty little jolts.

Hats, which had lately been, at worst, ridiculously appealing and, at best, downright becoming, threatened to go unattractively cockeyed again—"winged...

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