The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
VELVET THE CHOICE
FASHION DEGREES THAT IT
 SHALL REPLACE CLOTH. <
Corduroy for Street Use-Gowns of
 This Material Meets All Re- quirements for Grace and Ix Elegance.

Ellen Osborn in Chicago Record Herald | Noticeable upo1 the street this winter will be the velvet walking dress. Paris
 has offered, New York has accepted it. Outdoor toilets either wholly of velvet or of cloth largely mixed with velvet are of the newest and smartest of the sea- sons new and smart materials. Take for example a Redfern model i'm city: It is a dress of extreme simplic- ttv--the kind of simplicity that costs tar, more than elaboration. The skirt is ttade of gray velvet, covered with d rich applique of gray silk scarcely showing background of white velvet Reliev- ing and emphasizing this heavy ap- gray velvet, which h-encircle the back.
 running up to the waist at each side of the. front.
 | 1.-The waist is made of applique 'eiyet, Erh in front stitched .plastron of uAp velvet; a stitched band runs around tho bottom to stimulate bolero. The THiSt belt Is of stitched velvet. There | afe Louis XIII. sleeves, formed of three
 puffs of applique separated from one another by bands of stitched velvet The ifpNar fis of stitched velvet, trimmed With rows of black velvc. ribbon. A
 huge picture nat of gray velvet belongs with this dress; it Is trimmed with a f1blFsG isatin knot and long gray. os-
 triSh plume.
 4n To 1nMade Up as Cloth ,h GEAjfka sesend example. consider Fran d ! f"HsHt7 basige-coIored velvet, the skirt $ft5ehfSsm the hips down At the bot, ss t.
 teeth. witch fall upon an underskirt of
 wood-colered velvet richly embroidered. |1HAgCHafst shows short bolero of wood-
 colored velvet with turned over col- Jt}7r bntb -evers whose points fall below ' the waist. The sleeves are stitched and d cYupht like tn, skirt in saw teeth:
 which fall over a puff of wood-coiored | .,as.. ..l. falt hot fes tr4Inmed with wO Ood-colored velvet and ystloSw lace.
 In these two French models-the Paris
 Rssdfern has become more French than
 | the Parisians-the velvet is treated as nearly as possible as if 1t were cloth. It
 is the object to preserve the snugness
 and trim smartness even the slendcl'
 ness, of cloth, with something of its : severity. while adding the luster, the f richness and the stateliness of velvet f The success of the effort is dubious. 3 Aim at a Tailor Dress. = large number of velvet dresses of ! openings. They are worn and will bf ! worn more extensively. Yet they art experiments. They are compromises
 Sometimes they seem to hint at that al most impossible conception, velve ' tailor dress. If they are good at all o they are good in corduroy velvet. Cor " duroy is m lde for use. Velvet proper II Q made for luxury.
 z So it comes about that the best velve n n dresses of the season are afternoon O U | carriage costumes, though many Amer . gowns, and that these depart who'll , from the cloth tradition. They are no stitched, and they are not severe. T 2 | be rich to he elaborate, to be plctur esdue is their ideal
 The velvet afternoon dress is as flow . ing. as stately. as ornate in design a . 1t could have been in the palmiest day
 | of the gorgeous Louis. It delights |
 | strike suddenly the sparks of daring or f nament. It has sheen and weight-af s yes; it weighs pounds and then pound
 and pounds
 As an Afternoon Costume. n A Doucet model well illustrates tn 0 velvet afternoon dress. As shown by
 fashionable dressmak?r, it is made ( It amethyst velvet, with long, howin n skirt, richly embroid sred. Of plain an O ethyst velvet is made the light-httin 't coat, which is not quite of three-quarte It length, and whose skirts and pelerin :" cape are edged with deep incrustatio s of heavy ecru gupure lace embroidere
 in relief with purple grapes. The sleeve lt are tight to the elbows, then come pun ll of lace, gathered to the wrists by VelV' I. bands With this dress are shown mu
 and boa of blue fox fur and an amethy' r. velvet hat trimmed with lace and ostric le pumes.
 @ equally original has flowing skirt it green velvet. the shado being that no II known in Paris as "tree-frog. Aroun T. the bottom are incrusted great lozeng, Il of yellowish guipure. There is no bel
 the dress being cut in princess forn
 There is however, d short bolero g. gray velvet. embroidered and cut out IF the bottom in squares. It has a hlg .I, choker collar and big square reVers. IT iS 1 flowing sleeves of gray velvet stop ,' % little short of the wrists to show gret r- velvet undersleeves. There Is lar ID felt hat of tree-frog green trimmed vii C. ostrich feathers.
 Corduroy for Street Wear.
 For carriage and general outdoor we 1es great quantities of black and white ve rb vet are shown in close stripes. small Il n- ureS ana polhd uotS. ror dlleI Ioou t tt . o
 evening wear one of the newest thin