Evening star., 1900-02-24

that can be most beautifully adapted to
this use in accordance with the salient COL
ors of the costume. Chantilly is now the
most fashionable lace. Luxeuil lace is next
in popularity A combination that is often
seen consists of chantilly figures incrusted
on luxeuil over mousseline de sole.
Among the FashionabIes.
Nearly all the fashionable world is now
receiving. The Vicomtesse de Tredern, one
of the great Partisan beauties and society
leaders, is holding her weekly receptions.
So is Countess Jean de Castellane, whose
husband is brother of Count Boni de Cas-
tellane. Count Jean has always been more
popular In society than his brother. He is
a quiet, good looking young fellow, very
modest in manner, and, socially, the Jean
de Castellanes are more exalted in station
than the many millioned Boni de Castel-
lanes. The Countess Jean is a grande dame
by birth. Her father was, and her brother
is, the Due de PerigOrd. Her
brothers wife, the Princess de Sagan, was
for years leader of the Partisan grand
monde. Before her marriage to Count Jean
his wife was a widow, the Princess Won
Furstenberg. and, as she had very little
money, the match has been praised as a
love affair. One always meets the most
charming people at their receptions all of
the smart set of the Faubourg making it
point to be present.
In Orange and White.
Among the handsome gowns seen at one
of her recent Wednesday evenings exem-
plified the seasons vogue of white velvet,
the Duchess de Grammout being picture
in a princess robe of this sort. The tunic.
was open down one side to show a sugges-
ton of orange underneath, where the glitter
of seed pearl trimming could be seen. The
bodice was partially chiffon draped and or
namented at one side with a cluster of
pearls broadening into an epaulet on one
shoulder Yellow carnations trimmed the
other side of the bodice and nestled in the
hair.
Speaking of the Castellanes, reminds me
that before they left for America Countess
Anna laid in quite a supply of new and ef-
fective fnery with which to stir the admi-
ration of American ladies. One of the pret-
tfest things in her trunks was a boa and
muf of the finest cream tinted lace, the
round f1uffiness of the lace being due to
much ruffiing and crinping. The boa was
quite high behind and tapered toward the
ends. The dainty muff was lined with fur
and ornamented with picturesque bow of
chiffon. One can doubt whether warmth is
impaired by those objects on a cold day,
but then they were only intended for mad
ans wear in the carriage, and they GER
tainly are lovely and dainty enough for a
fairy princess.
The Princess de Polk has just had sent
home a beautiful new tea gown, which is
so novel in some points that / cannot for
bear describing it. 1t is made of some sort
of soft, satiny stuff very much trimmed
to form a d'Medicf collar. Over the bodice
front the lace forms zouave jacket out
line. from under which plated folds of
chiffon fall to the floor. The sleeves are the
prettiest and oldest devised this season,
the upper half being made of the gown ma
terial with a stiffened elbow cuff of the
chenille lace from which drops a loose
sleeve of the plated chiffon, caught in at
the wrist by a band of the lace. Nothing
could be more striking and graceful than
this garment, whose effectiveness is due to
the design, not to the rich materials used
so that it may be successfully copied in
less expensive material.
The beautiful trimming due to the conbi-
nation of shaded cloth or velvet is one of
the most pronounced successes of the sea-
son. All shades of silk are used in con-
triving it, from white to the deepest ecru
and black All sorts of floral and scroll de-
signs are outlined with the lace figures and
the cloth on background of a darker or
lighter shade than the applique. When q:
border of this trimming is used all round
garment, as in the case of petunia -colored
carriage wrap which was today worn by
dame shopping along the Rue de la Paix
the effect is one to haunt ones dreams and
make us envy the rich ones of the earth
Ribbon Velvet Borders.
Narrow ribbon velvet is much used in
trimming some of the smart gowns A
most effective of the ribbon was seen
on a fashionable Frenchwoman's gown of
dark cloth, which was trimmed with point
ed applications of the ribbon put on in par
allel rows upon the skirt and In oblique
lines upon the bodice. The tunic was cut