The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-19
EVENING TOILETS.
short-sIeeved Bodices, Long Gloves
No Fan Nor FLOWERS.

:
after alfTone evening at the opera is
worth a dozen: interviews. with dress
makers columns in the sfashion pa
pers, so far as acquiring a realizing sense
of what is really being worn" The
wealthy New York hostess leaned back
in her easy chair and yawned prettily be-
hind her. white fingers on which a galaxy
of rings twinkled.
Eyes, - she answered in reply to an in
quiry of her companion, seated in peni-
tents gray at her feet. ''I did go last
night in spite of the fact that 1t is Lent
thriftily took note of what my fellow
woman was wearing. Once in a season
do dearly love to view the field of fash
ion Ger from box. 1t may not be the
best point of vantage for hearing but
one sees from 1t everything and like the
ancient mariner I have a very retentive
eye and memory and what I see 1 hold.
Last night I saw bookfuls of entire
ly priceless information wholly with re-
gard to the proper toilet to make after
6 o'clock continued the hostess. ''All
the ultra smart women and those well to
do also, were wearing embroidered
&c WINS of chiffon, liberty silk or mousse
line de sole draped on satin, or lace pure
and simple on under dresses of soft kilt
ed stuff All of them wore their hair
high with spangled flowers or wings
therein, all wore short sleeves, long
gloves, and, as far as my detective glance
went, carried their suede clad fingers In
languid Idle emptiness. No fans, no
| flowers were seen and colors high and
clear, else white or black, wholly undi-
versifed, gave the required distinctive
| expression to the various costumes.
Now, to get down to particulars, I
may as well relate what was worn by
three women who took my fancy nightly
and who seemed to me the incarnation
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them sat in q box not far away from
mine and was radiant in robe of
, black satin worked In mingled black and
silver Spangles, laid so close together
from her shoulders to her knees, with
no broken line at the waist, that she very
nearly resembled some lovely reincarna-
/ ton of the LAMA, or a mermaid from
the African coast with the moonlight
playing on her splendid cleaning dusky
scales From the knees down, about her
satin shod feet, fared an accordian pIeat-
ed flounce that waved and fourshed in
the most hewitching manner as she pass
ed me in the foyer hooded and shrouded
In black velvet.
sOut of this cloud with It's silver
streaks, rose her handsome white should
ers innocent Of all jewels save strap
OF brilliants arching on one shoulder
and between the hard brilliancy of the
spangles and the tender whiteness of
her arms and neck the clever dreSSmak-
er had twisted scarf of chiffon at the
top of her bodice. Long pearl white
gloves and in her hair a couple of black
tulle wings glistening with silver span
giles, brought the details of the costume
up to the perfectly correct standard.
when / had satisfied eyes and envy
on this creation my eager gaze roved on
to perfectly brand new adaptation of
the princess idea, from the memory of
which will get no peace until pos
sess In perhaps less costly form an exact
reproduction. The instant my eagle eye
rested upon the gown 1 marked is as
something entirely out of the course of
common things. a new star in the firma-
ment of fashion and one that is destined
to have many limitations.
lit was blue My dear have you no.
ticed, by the way, that women are given
over wholly to blue in one shade or an
other?"
Not waiting reply. the hostess hurried
on. blue silk muslin, pleated in straight
Zines from shoulder to foot and pleated
as full as the gauzy goods will allow, was
the dress proper. Upon this went robe
of Lexeuil lace that covered only the
| back and sides Of the cerulean, clouds
came forward to lap in imitation of a
figaro jacket on the bust. and let fan one
graceful, lacy figure on either arm and
so left the whole trent of the frock as
| pure azure as the skies in June, save for