Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-23
FOR LENTEN WEAR
Twentieth Century Fashions A
Extravagant,
ORCHID GREEN is L new COLOR
Lounging Robes and Smoking
Jackets Eagerly Bought.
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| special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, March 81 1901.
Every spring has it's specially and now,
| In the glory of the crocus and the nnow-
ball season, we are wearing embroidered
! goods with zeal and universally that
we showed last year for pin tucks and lace
| applications. This is not because we love
| pin tucks and lace incrustations less, but
It's case Of making welcome old friends
| returned. Embroidered robes are no now
| city to any woman out of her teens. At
intervals of five years they always come
back to us and always In an improved state
over their last phase: and this spring the
veilings and ladies' cloths and linens are
beautiful almost beyond description.
Hardly less attractive are the honey
comb cloths about which the dressmakers
are quite daft. From the point of view of
an exact and critical busy bee these goods
are woven on the pattern of very badly
constructed honeycomb indeed, but for
the demands of fashion it is excellent in
Its diversified, rough and Semi-transparent
wool surface. very lucid impression of
the appearance of the goods Is given in an
accompanying sketch, and here the honey
comb pattern is woven in well-miyed
threads of wax brown and cream broad
CLOTH of spring weight, give just the proper
variety to the topography of skirt and
waist, and this latter half of the suit opens
In front to display full vest of cream lIbs
erty satin, crossed by straps of brown VEL
vet and a scarf of cream-colored embroid-
cred chiffon. Charming gowns for Lentcn
wear, in two tones of gray or sympathetic
shades of violet have been made up with
embroidered bands and Jokes showing a
happy correspondence with the coiors of
the body material
Splendid Patches.
From the embroidered and honeycomb-
woven goods we turn, by force of optical
allurement, to the smart reception and
house gowns Of pale pastel cloths, patched
and appliqued with silk and lace. To
glance at the central figure in the group
of three well-dressed maidens pictured
with this article gives a clear impression
of what these patched cloths are like. 1t
also gives excellent notion Of the ex-
travagant gait the twentieth century mode
is going. No woman seems content, in this
exacting and luxurious age to wear one
or two fabrics at a time: all the wealth Of
the looms must be lavfshed on single
suit. In this instance the body of this
very typical gown is a soft, rosy mastic
satin-faced pastel cloth. More than half
the area of both skirt and waist is covered
with overlays of Louisine silk, shot with
cloud pattern of eXquisitely mingled rose
and silver threads, and this material is
made fast to the cloth foundation by a
chain stitching along the edges done in
silver. A full fiounce of cream white Irish
lace gives the amplitude at the foot, and
similar lace, but of a heavier weave and
threaded with silver, nearly covers the
front Of the waist. Narrow bands of JAG
queminot red panne finish the neck and
waist line.
The companion figures to this opulently
clad damsel typify the latest Inspirations
in evening dresses. At the left is cos
tune Of the new shade known as orchid
green grenadine, garnished with founces
of crisp silk muslin of the same tint, and
black feather trimming that Is not only
new, but unusually pretty. At the right a