Evening star., 1900-02-03
LATE PARIS STYLES
Sweet Simplicity Effects, but Costly
Purchases.
INSERTIONS OF RIBBONS and Lace
Thin Dresses Are Worn Over
Slips of Same Color.
THE FRENCH WOMAN'S TASTE

Special Correspondence of The Evening star.
PARIS January %. 1900
One is given faint idea of what the
summer girl of 1900 is to be like by few
of the more advanced modistes along the
Rue de la Paix. Modest and simple she
may be in manner, but simple she will not
be in dress. Sweet simplicity will for the
summer adapt for its own use all those
marvellous complexities of trimming thai
have made awesOme and mysterious the
evening garb of winter. Men who are wont
to prate sentimentally but ignorantly of
the glory above all praise which pretty,
plain, white dress gives to the beauty of
woman should know their pocket books be-
fore they indulge in such advice in the near
future.
Twenty-Five hundred francs. equal to 500
is a mere bagatelle to pay for some of the
latest white garments. The smartest ones
are made of sheer white fabrics that can
be stiffened to stand out well from the
body. Some of them are trimmed with
deep flounces of the finest plated null or
lawn Above the f1ounce a row of narrow
insertion may come, and above this a band
of white stuff Another row of slightly
narrower insertion is set above this, and
so on until the waist is reached, where the
lace and bands may be no more than
quarter of an inch wide and shaped TO the
Win an art t1dt Is as great as II
must cost. The bodice itself may be (and
most likely Isl a mass of insertions, with
tight-fitting sleeves of the same construc-
tiOn and a high collar overlapped by point
ed pieces of lace. On the front of the
bodice there is very often pointed ar
rangement Of hounced insertions and lace
meeting on the chest and perhaps tied with
a bow of ribbon to match the girdle. The
time taken to make this gown is simply
amazing, for it is not cut out of the solid
piece OF insertion and bands, but fitted.
row by row, TO the required shape so that
not a dart or seam can be noticed.
Insertions and TnekS.
Instead of plain bands of white sepa-
rating the lace, some of the gowns are
made of rows and rows of tucks set singly
between bands Of insertion. The collar
about the neck and the ornamental collar
on the front of the bodice in that case are
of the tucks alone. edged with the inser-
ton and lace The skirts all fit closely,
but not so closely as has been the fashion
for the last few months. They are. very
yoluminous about the lower part and hang
in well-planned, urfdulating folds.
Ruffied skirtS-that is, the narrow. ruff
fled sort-are not so numerous as was ex-
pected- Here and there are few, but the
deep single founce seems to be the choice
Of the makers of the early models. The
plated ruffie Is used in many different
ways that 1t is a trifie confusing. The
founce is set high up the front of the
skirt from which it falls in a deep fiuting
that resembles the accordion plating of
few years ago. Again it will be put on in
series of deep pointed indentatio or a
comparatively narrow all-around insertion
headed fiounce. The plating is none of il
the straight, fiat sort, but stands out in
weii-defined futings from the surface.
"Rucked- Ribbons.
Equally popular with insertion are rows
of narrow gathered ribbon-''rucked' rib
bon, as it is generally called. although 1t
is in reality nothing more ambitious than
narrow frills. The ribbon is of a color to
match the muslin of the gown, for the
models are in pink, pale blue. sea green
and orange yellow muslin, well as white
] have even seen very decided chocolate
cOlored ard thin black organdies trimmed
with the proper shade Of the narrow rib