Evening star., 1900-07-14

ness and polka-dotted in black was what
the Partisan originator had used. The
long. full, falling front, the coquettish
boieros. the sleeves and fiat square collar
were edged with double bias bands of blacl.
taffeta and then crisped with pure white
muslin frills which relieved any possibility
of studied somberness in which the cool
confection might have been In danger
Tossed on the chair with this was plain
skirt OF sheer white lawn, having two bands
of black embroidery done on white muslin
running through the snowy breadths at the
region of the knees.
Third and last. but not least in the group
was a toilet blouse of striped wash silk of
the twilled variety that SO gallantly with
stands wear and tubbings. All about 1t ran
rufte of white wash silk, cut in points
and buttonholeS along the edges and then
embroidered in every point with little pink
star-shaDed flower.
Washable Satin.
Wash silk. SO the knowing say, has a
rival now in an entirely delightful wash
satin that is very much in use for soft bed
room wraps, and from Paris where no wo-
man thinks it too much trouble to get up
delightful toilet in which to interview her
physician or sip her morning chocolate
there are wonderful little negiges made of
rose and green and violet silk with full
lace or embroidered undersleeves and the
cap TO pin on the artistically disheveled
locks Is always made of material that
echoes that of the 1860 bags about the
wrists
Seductive Hair Ornaments.
There Is always at the summer hotels a
thriving trade to be done in novel hair or
naments for the evening and the fabri.
Gators of such airy nothings have quite
surpassed themselves in the uniqueness of
their new bows and coronets, etc A Sc
ductive little oddity which, however. only
tiara of ostrich tips. OF jet or steel beads
or peculiarly cut paiettes the base of the
tiara is made and from it springs up a row
Of nine tiny fountain-shaped ostrich feath-
ers, out of which in turn tower five club
shaped Clipped tips and when such tiara
Is bu!It of black feathers on a base of steel
ana Jet or rhinestones and jet the conse-
quen"e Is stately, dazzling and enviable.
Debutantes and unmarried bellies who
wish to crest their bright locks with some
enect.Ee ornament, can find their ideas full
hlled by the charming stiffened silk mus
lin wings encrusted in lace and turquoise
or coral points and the three fans of trans
parent material rising from a knot of blue
or pink panne. adjusted to a tortoise shell
halrpin- Sometimes four slips of beaded
muslin are arranged like the broad arms
of wind mill, springing from a hub of
tulle, and this bright fancy is thrust in at
the side of a high piled eoronet of hair, or
a spangled bodied butterfly with lace en-
crusted wings of gauze is poised lightly
on coiffure of puffs and waves.
Bi1lOwy White MusIins.
One-half Of well gowned femininty has
rushed joyOusly into pillows of white mus
lin and will consider no more studied deco
ration than Mechlin and Valenciennes lace
and tucks so fine that they are run by the
aid of a strong reading glass. There is a
gentle opposition, which holds that all
grace and beauty are found only in cling
Ing crepes and Imply lovely liberty satin.
and who believe that these suave goods
require little off-setting save with folds
and especially puffings. Really, the puff,
without any heralding flourish of trumpets,
has come to sway the destinies for beauty
or the opposite of many a good gown, and
just how far. with justifable excuses the
dresSmakers dare carry this feature is
shown in the sketch of sweet ivory white
liberty satin. Little colonies of puffs at the
knees. halfway to the waist line, at the
hips and shoulders. supply the only re-
lief to the extreme simplicity of the toilet,
save a girdle and shoulder straps of Irish
green velvet. Buckles of emeralds and
brilliants fasten the shoulder straps to the
foot of the skirt, is of the plant satin.
The Craze for Green.
How much, by the way, we are wearing
green this summer! The shamrock, or
Irish green. silk sun shade has, in a meas
ure, usurped the place once held by the
trusty and always harmonious black and
white parasols, and chiefly because, in the
judgment of the tasteful, a good rich green
forms IN dress, as 1t does in nature, a
perfect ensemble with all other colors.
In Paris the craze for green Is in full
swing 1t is wrought in with white. Law