Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-31

ing for figures needing TO simulate a slen-
derness which they do not possess.
Some False Alarms.
One must still be happy with dark
hosiery whether it is cotton. cashmere,
silk or Isle thread. One hears now and
then that white and light colored stock
irgs are to be revived, but almost with
out exception it is found to be false
alarm. The fashionable woman who
makes study of effects knows well that
light stockings for wear with low shoes
are not judicious, since they give the foot
an appearance of increased size, which
only those with Cinderella feet can afford.
Among the new designs in stockings are
these coming well up over the ankle in
fancy stripes and then spreading out into
series of dots. Another idea is to have
rows of fiower-embroidered vines climbing
UP each side of the stocking, with a bare
space in front and in the back. Also
worth noticing is the use of heavy and
light designs together, the one which is
finer and DINNER serving to offset the
other as a background.
Buttons on the spring garments are to
be ornamental as those We have been
accustomed to on winter costumes. Some
very smart ones, made after the patterns
of the large, smoked pearls, are of gilt,
and. on account of their large size are
used in groups of three or four. EmbrOid-
cred silk buttons are very handsome and
are to be used great deal in place of
jeweled ones, which have rather a tawdry
effect on the light summer fabrics.
New Blouse Adaptations.
To obtain very great novelty in a blouse
design is asking for the impossible in these
days, when designers brains have for
years, season in and season out, been
struggling for something new, and the
number of varied patterns turned out each
succeeding year is simply amazing. Three
IL, :
moment in blOuses are shown. One of the
models was an Eton jacket of silk bands
set between insertions of lace. The Jacket
was made to be Worn over a vest of tuck
ed chiffon Another bodice was of dark
cashmere, set in box plaits in front and
frightened by wide revers faced with
white cloth, garnished with braid and
small buttons. Still third bodice of silk
was cut with very deep, double revers
stitched deliberately and falling back from
dainty chemisette of guipure lace over
satin
A pretty gown for morning street wear
is treasure when found, for it should
combine two qualities rarer than one
might suppose. One Of this sort has Just
been completed for the Countess de- IRE
dern. 1t is Of gray cloth, with a tucked
inner bodice of geraniuIn 'colored cloth set
above stitched band of cloth cut with an
edge of deep, concaye curves. A vest of
lace shows between the fronts of the
bodice, the under collar being of lace and
cloth. The skirt is cut with a rounded
overshirt, edged with a stitched band and
divided by groups of stitching. The skirt
Is one of the most pronounced of the plait-
ed sort. Instead of two box plaits 1t is
dtaped in triple plaits, an arrangement
that gives it an extreme fuliness
Living Model
Nine. Rejane is said to be the best dressed
actress on the Partisan stage In the PLAY
in which she is now appearing one of tho
gowns is meeting with even more thar
the usual need of approval 1t is one OF
those nondescript costumes that may be
worn for afternoon or evening functions
stree 1t is high in the neck, owing to a
clever arrangement of many chiffon plaits
underneath high collar of lace and silk
The gown Itself, cut with bodice very
much rounded out to allow the use of q
side draping of silk, is princess one, the
skirt also being cut away in front to show
an underskirt of lace. The silk of the
gown Is one of those changeable moon.
light effects and is touched up along tn,
| edge with an embroidered border of laure
leaves.
An Unlimited Choice.
An inquisitive customer anxious to secur.
the very latest skirt, asked, What is tn,