Evening star., 1901-12-21
Worn at the Point That Best Suits
Individual Style.
TRANSPARENT YOKES In LACE
Dancing Dresses in White Cordu-
roy and Light FIowered PopIins.
GORGEOUS EVENING WRAPS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, Decesber 10, 1901.
Holly leaves and berries in trails and
clusters are rivals of the roses as coiffure
decorations this December. AS a matter
of fact. the Christmas spirit has been in
troduced a smart fashion, and the miIli-
ners were first in the field with their hair
sprays of green velvet holly and mistletoe
leaves and the berries done in red velvet
and wax, Conventionalized, but none the
less popular for that. are the sprays of
frosted white velvet holly foliage and clear
red glass berries that are displayed to per-
fection in blonde or powdered hair
at Christmas parties. The dark-tressed
maidens show fancy for natural effects
derived from a combination of feathery
green fir sprays and one big fragrant red
rose.
AS in the heat of the ball room the rose
and the evergreen begin to droCp they give
forth most delicious odor: but none of
these distinctly holiday novelties disturb in
any serious degree the very definite and
distinguished position of the pink rose as
a hair ornament. silk, velvet. cotton
hot house rose is equally modish; they
are all pink, and all worn in the evening
at any point on the head that most suits
the picturesque. plaintive or piquant style
of the fair diner, dancer or theater-goer.
The Transparent Yoke.
Next after the rose or holly in her hair,
the most important detail for any w0man's
evening toilet is the line about the shoul-
ders that her decollete evening body de-
scribes. American women used to be very
chary in their use of the delicate waist
cOnining it's usefulness to the opera box
dance and ceremonious dinner. Nowadays
the tendency is decidedly toward q low
necked gown for the theater. for the hos
tess and her reception assistants in the
afternoon and for guests as well as hostess
at an evening wedding and at public con-
certs. The decolletage displayed upon the
abOve-enumerated occasions is very. very
lightly veiled by gauZe CAMP and long
or elbow sleeves of the same transparent
material as the yoke.
Any far-seeing woman who can afford
but one new evening gown this winter,
will. of course. buy for her low-cut waist
a yoke and sleeves of net that can be ad-
justed for a theater party. but left off for
dance and she can get these pretty deli
caCies already made in the shops or she cau
contrive them herself. \ strong, but light
meshed net or very delicately figured lace
is what the powers have agreed on as the
best material for this purpose. The net f
plain is usually refined by small widely
spaced figures done in tiny black spang!es
and in the theaterS the women who wear
the open gowns adopt draught protectors
In the shape of full black or white feather
bOas-
With Holly Headdress.
Among the evening toilets turned out for
special holiday usefulness is a goodly ma
jority that signify Christmas festivity in
every fold These are to be worn with hol-
ly headdresses. and for young girls the
white liberty silks bearing big white che
mile disks and spaHgies suggest the snow
fakes and sparkling frost of December
weather.
-Four typical models for Christmas eve