Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-27
DAINTY DRESSING TAsLEs
Luxurious Boudoirs of Well Known Ameri.
can Bellies
Fad Among the Swell Set-Lady
Hereford Started the Fashion
With n $1,000 Mirror.

Lady Beresford set the fashion for elab-
crate dressing tables when she recently
paid over 1900 for a narrow strip of flaw
less crystal In which to regard her perfect
luce and form during the progress of her
toilet.
The dainty accessories for this luxurious
table are all In the finest OF cut glass and
the table itself stands I'm a gorgeous room
which is entirely draped in scarlet, her
ladyship's favorite color. The candles at
the sides of the unique mirror are cardinal
color, and stand in rich brass candelabras
All the bottles and boxes OF perfumes
powders and unguents which adorn the
dressing shelf are also of cut glass touch
ed with gold
Miss Virginia Fair, the California heiress.
III whose honor the Countess of Castellane
gave superb dinner not so very long ago
mas dressing table at once interesting
quaint and old-fashioned. 1t is a long
swallow table with the entire ton fnlaid
with mother Of pearl. The mirror as wide
as the table and reaching nearly to the
celiine. stands fiat against the wall and is
iaVishiy draped with folds OF pink silk.
All the brushes. combs, boxes etc are
finished In mother OF pearl exactly match
ing the table top.
These very long tables are growing stead
ny In FAVOR. They afford SO much space
Tor every variety of toilet accessory. There
is place for the paraphernalia OF mani
curing, for the delicate cosmetics hair
dressing, etc. And really well-groomed
women enter into the detail of dressing
nowadays as seriously they do into for
eign matrimonial ventures or into the new
fad of being politicians
Mrs Adolph Ladenburg a woman who
follows the hounds with the ease of a pink
coated English squire, has one of the most
perfectly equipped dressing tables i'm this
country. The table is divided into two sec
lions by pier mirror which reaches from
the floor to the ceiling. Over the dressers
on either side are shelves and smaller mir
rCrs. The toilet appointments are all solid
silver and the draperies of blue.
Miss Edith Sheppard, who is SO well
known through her drawing room foreign
talks" has q dressing table that is un-
equaled In gorgeous coloring and richness
Of effect.
The table which is square and entirely
covered with cloth-of-gold, stands in the
middle of the room. The mirror, which is
also square and festooned with cloth-of-
gold, is supported by two large gold claws
All the toilet pieces are mounted in gold
and rest on gold cloth mats. The manicure
set is placed at one end of the table mat
ting, arranged jp q white lined gold bog.
i'nis c1oth-of-gold drapery Is very beau
tiful and woven to order at an expense Of
about S120 per yard. The pattern selected
by Miss Sheppard is the sparsey scattered
fieur de lis. the eeffct produced being very
rich, almost ecclesiastical in design and
coloring. At one side OF the dressing table
is cloth-of-gold cushion and over the
cushion a narrow shelf holding a prayer
book
But the popular use Of the dressing table
is by no means limited to the wealthy maid
Of high degree. Their convenience and
general utility are appreciated all the way
down from the mother of pearl table 10 the
tiny oval of white enamel and even to the
dry goods box set with shelves, covered
with japanese blue and white cotton and
surmounted with a ninety-eight-cent mir
h LII
ard blue enamel. The toilet accessories for
the dry goods box are of inexpensive cellu-
loid the candle sticks are of German delft
and the pin cushion is of old blue silk en-
broidered i'm white wind mills. Such u
dressing table complete in every detail
would not cost to exceed S.